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I’m a sculptor,
printmaker and textile artist.
My passion is to draw and to make things.
I collect lots of stuff. I’m
always making something. My
images come from my life. I
create installations; that’s when I arrange things in a particular
way in relation to each other and the space they occupy.
Sometimes in a gallery, sometimes just for fun anywhere.
As a sculptor I work
with metals, casting aluminium and bronze in the foundry at TAFE.
Sometimes investment casting, sometimes just by carving out
holes in the sand. I also
carve aerated concrete blocks and paint the surface.
Then I could have a spasm of paper making and casting from
plaster moulds or just hand forming the paper pulp or working for a
time with clay.
Printmaking
I like to print onto anything, mostly I print onto paper and
fabrics. I use relief,
woodblocks, and lino but mostly I do intaglio with Solarplate etching
or monotype using the CREATEX paints.
Then I mix these two methods together or print Solarplates onto
fabric with dyes in intaglio, which brings me to textiles.
Textiles
I have a love affair with colour especially on silk.
Silk scarves, silk shirts, silk hankies and fabric lengths,
cold water wax resist and dyes………I’m sucked in!!!!
Occasionally I have beautiful georgette and jap silk scarves
and/or T shirts, for sale in vibrant colours and designs. Check out my
gallery.
Painting
I paint just about anything, rocks, footpaths, magazine storage
boxes and my shoes. I don’t usually paint much on canvas or on paper
any more, but my monotypes are very painterly.
Artist Books
I create books from paper, wood fabric and plastic.
Lately I’ve cast bronze pages for a book.
Some books are very tiny and some are quite large, some are in
bags, some are in boxes, some are loose pages, others are collections
of past drawings or rearranged photos.
Check out my gallery. I
will gradually put them up on there.
Studio
I belong to BARRACKS ARTISTS Studio in Thirroul which is on the
eastern coast of NSW, Australia.
I live one street away from a subtropical rainforest and 3
minutes on my bike from the beach.
The studio is between these two places.
Every day I ride my bike to the beach, walk to the next beach,
Austinmer (Paradise), have a swim and then ride back up the hill to
home.
Environment
My message to artists is to use less, waste less, reuse
everything, reduce waste, and work with non-toxic materials.
I use non-toxic paints & dyes and acid free etching
methods.
I do casual school teaching, conduct workshops, enter competitions, mount exhibitions and distribute CREATEX paints & Dyes.
Travel
I love to travel conducting workshops, especially to regional or
outback places. I can
usually be found at Textile Fibre Forums in Mittagong NSW after Easter
and Geelong in Victoria in Spetember/October, where I demonstrate and
supply textile paints & dyes.
I can also be found travelling Australia with my workshop
things and my fat books.
I hope you enjoy visiting my site. Maybe we will meet at a workshop or an exhibition.
Judy
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