when: 13 December 2023 - 25 February 2024 | venue: Australian National Botanic Gardens | cost: See event for details | address: Visitor Centre Gallery, Clunies Ross Street Acton 2601 | website: https://parksaustralia.gov.au
published: 13 Dec 2023, 5 min read
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An exhibition by local artist Sharon Peoples featuring sophisticated individual embroidered gloves using moths and butterflies found in the Canberra hills.
Sharon Peoples spends a lot of time wandering and wondering about gardens. It's not plants, so much as the labour and politics of gardening. From her own domestic garden to the local bushland and a little further afield to surrounding national parks, she is energised and draws inspiration by walking in these environments.
In a similar way, she thinks about the labour and politics of stitching. Fragility of both the environment and the human condition is reflected in the media Peoples uses, while oscillating between hand and machine embroidery to examine issues. In understanding the deep existential processes of creating and caring for gardens, she explores portraits, self-portraits, the inner secret garden, artists' gardens, public gardens and gardens of the imagination through stitch.
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An exhibition by local artist Sharon Peoples featuring sophisticated individual embroidered gloves using moths and butterflies found in the Canberra hills.
Sharon Peoples spends a lot of time wandering and wondering about gardens. It's not plants, so much as the labour and politics of gardening. From her own domestic garden to the local bushland and a little further afield to surrounding national parks, she is energised and draws inspiration by walking in these environments.
In a similar way, she thinks about the labour and politics of stitching. Fragility of both the environment and the human condition is reflected in the media Peoples uses, while oscillating between hand and machine embroidery to examine issues. In understanding the deep existential processes of creating and caring for gardens, she explores portraits, self-portraits, the inner secret garden, artists' gardens, public gardens and gardens of the imagination through stitch.
Go see Gardening Gloves 2023.
Gardening Gloves 2023 is on 13 December 2023 - 25 February 2024. The opening hours are: See event website for details. Conveniently located in Acton. Call 02 6250 9588 for details. Visit their website at https://parksaustralia.gov.au.
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