Senior Momentum celebrated International Women’s Day 2006 with WOMANOLDERWISERWILDER
Under the slogan EVERY WOMAN CAN MAKE ART, women came together to stitch, knit, weave, quilt, embroider, crochet, dye, print, paint, surface design, add textures, found objects, text.
The completed works were exhibited at the Hobart Women’s Health Centre where the workshop took place and participating artists are:
Aukje Boonstra, Vanda Jackson, Helen Ducker, Jennifer Line, Gaye Oldham, Jill Cartwright, Wyn Foley, Gina Cooke, Suzie Barton-Johnson, Eve Beedroft and members of the Alice Elliott Day Care Centre.
To see their work, select the artist's name or just scroll down the page.
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artist: Alice Elliot Day Centre
Buttons and Fabric Create Beautiful
Flowers
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artist:Alice Elliott Day Centre
Lets make a picture using
buttons instead of tiles in a
mosaic
Bottles and tins of buttons were
sorted
Many unusual buttons were
found
Some evoked memories
Some updated a jacket
White there are plenty but
yellow are scarce
Small black ones were needed
but were hard to find
Even at opp shops yellow and little black ones were hard to find
Caryl "I’d like to try a giraffe"
So a picture was sourced
The outline was drawn
And the stitching began
Wow’w
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artist:Helen Ducker
My Wild and Woolley Mama
Wrapped up in woollies, white-haired ladies
are sometimes slow to respond and forgetful.
They have a lifetime of knowledge and
experiences in their brains to sift through
before they react. It’s no wonder it takes
them time to find the right answer.
My Mum is no exception. She likes bright
colours, buys red shoes, sings in choirs and
runs one, last time I saw her she had orange
hair.
She won’t use her hearing aid.
Why should she? She’s heard it all before!
She’s not really woolley at all - just living for
herself at last.
The background in this quilt is her past life,
the figure is the present.
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artist:Eve Beedroft
No Worry Dolls
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artist:Vanda Jackson
The Arches of the Years
Woman is born with some basic gifts and given
the threads of others at birth, for building,
weaving and there are hints of jewels and
chains as well.
Then she grows Older and her gifts are used in
her construction of herself, by choice, by
influence and by the constraints of the world
she was born into. It has both the regularity of
norms and the colours of her personality.
She becomes Wiser, the colours are dimmer in
some places but the building bricks are more
freely placed and less regular in form and are
held together largely by her own work and
choice of direction.
At last she becomes Wilder, the arch is high
and wide and reveals much of her previous
living but its bricks are laid with less care for
conventions, and covered with all the threads of
wild possibilities still to be woven, embroidered,
given away, enjoyed.
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artist:Aukje Boonstra
Women Older Wiser
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artist:Jennifer Line
Wagga for a Much Loved Place
A wagga is a traditional
Australian Quilt, made
from remnants and
cast offs, associated
with pioneer women
making do in hard
times.
This quilt is a
celebration of my home
on the Derwent River in
Otago Bay, stuffed with
memories of daily
walks with my dogs for
over twenty years.
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artist:Wynn Foley
White Nights
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artist:Gaye Oldham
Awakening
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artist:Jill Cartwright
WOWW
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artist:Gina Cooke 22 years
Wastelines
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artist:Suzie Barton-Johnson
woman; older; wiser; wilder
loose threads,
frayed ends
legless
headless
woww
a child with unfulfilled dreams, aspirations enter
uncertainties, inhibitions, limitations
no more
let loose;
i am me
woman
brave
feminine
beautiful
all of this I know
woww
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