Seed banks hold great appeal for me... and here is another kind of bank I recently discovered at Pinterest.
Despite being familiar through Pinterest its was only today that I visited their website, tumblr and facebook page. A visit to their tumblr archive revealed this...
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| a 2011 work from my website
We love these paintings by Sophie Munns for there subtlety in colour, texture and pattern.The beauty here, is in natures unevenness in repetition. Her residency at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Artist-in-Residence at Mt Coot-tha focused on global seed heritage and seed conservation. More information at www.sophiemunns.weebly.com
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For two years in the late 1990's I designed textiles for boutique bedlinen ranges for a leading Textile Corporation in Melbourne and so was introduced to the textile industry. This happened simply because I was discovered by the Managing Director who drove past my shop-front studio in Melbourne frequently and became curious enough to arrange for his staff to visit and view my work.
One can view patterns as decorative and pleasing (or not), depending on the design. For me they've always been intrinsically tied up with cultural ideas that can be dense and layered if the thinking behind a design is from a curious or receptive mind. Simple or complex... there's so much can be written about patterns and these days about the Pattern-making brain.
The other works they selected are these:
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Congratulations Sophie!!! Simply wonderful news and well deserved. I really enjoyed reading what they had to say and of course...love all their choices. On a sidenote...millions of years ago, I sold fabric for one of the US's leading fabric houses. Textiles have always been one of my loves too. Funny how our paths seem to cross over and over again.
ReplyDeletetextiles are pattern...even plain weave. sophie, i really like seeing these,
ReplyDeleteWell...very late night posting has its challenges I realise this morning ... title needs a rethink!
ReplyDeletethat aside...
Thanks Mary... was an interesting place to find this work presented. The idea of trend watching interests me from the point of view of Rupert Sheldrake's idea of 'Morphic resonance", fascinated over years Ive been to observe how ideas are generated from the ground up from different parts of the world where people are't aware of each other's work.... yet the emerging material has great similarity or connection.
Ideas seem to have their time, whether large or small ideas... emerging at particular times ... thing is recognising what's emerging before it has simply been copied and replicated all over the place I imagine.
The challenge for artists perhaps ... to be able to birth things from internal and external engagements...rhythms ...there's a lot of rhythm in pattern and that subtle variations of form - like music for me...syncopation.. jazz...anything where variations are part of the whole...Bach's two part inventions imprinted themselves on my brain whilst learning piano all those years ago..and there is often a need in me to represent that kind of schematic variation in structure and composition... hence through patterning.
It often feels like a much more truthful representation of nature and reality somehow and why figurative work and highly representational work i can't hear this rhythm in!
Thanks for that reminder Velma... weaving is so fundamental to human production of necessary goods to ensure survival... before we even get to the decorative, cultural, spiritual meanings that are woven into those forms.
always ruminating here...thanks for spurring these thoughts Mary and Velma!
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DeleteI never realized there was a name for the idea of how concepts can develop over time in different places. I often think about the simple spoon or bowl. And...how so many cultures have come up with it at the same time without seeing it somewhere else. Fascinating stuff as always Sophie!
Thats one name.... there might be others Mary.
DeleteIts a mysterious thing... I've read much on this kind of coincidence...and I think that artists have to be prepared for it. Its easy to jump to the conclusion that a work has been copied. Its curious to realise that on sites like Pinterest or Tumblr where you can gaze at a wealth of imagery from around the globe it is not unheard of at all to see something that reminds you of a work you have done on similar lines.
Its remarkable but it happens ... often... but its very different to an exact copy arrived at falsely or things that are simply derivative.