THE LACEMAKER'S NOTEBOOK
This collection of drawings, lace patterns, lace samplers and objects is a curated selection of studio ephemera that formed part of my 2012 solo exhibition “These Waves”. A sub theme of that body of work was acknowledging my amateur status is most of the techniques I utilised, yet stubbornly insisting that what I expressed was worth saying, in other words, “Art”. “The Lacemaker’s Notebook” is a subtle institutional critique of aesthetic hierarchies, craftsmanship and a document of my early “apprenticeship” as a lacemaker, and a visual artist. The nautical references are intentional. The works in “These Waves” took as their impetus the torrents of time and desire, a heightened awareness of mortality, and early modern experiments with optics and capturing the transience of light, weather and human consciousness - aspects of the ocean can be metaphors for all of these.
A second iteration of this piece was exhibited in 2016 as part of AFTER THE THRILL IS GONE - Fashion Politics and culture in Contemporary South African Art (Curated by Andrew Heinlich), Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, USA.
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THE LACEMAKER'S NOTEBOOK.
2012.
A collection of drawings, patterns, samplers and objects. Installation dimensions variable.
Collection: Artphilein, Switzerland
