ON EXHIBITION @ The Centre Beaudesert
NATURE OF CHANGE by Bonny ShoreTextile printed works responding to environmental and life changes and personal resilience 20 AUG - 22 OCT 2022Featured in ENDURING Exhibition
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION - Nature of Change
Change is a constant in life and nature, especially in these 'unprecedented times' of drought, flood, destructive storms, fires, environmental shifts, and upheavals of the pandemic. This exhibition by former Scenic Rim resident Bonny (Bonita) Shore, is a response to these elements, and her own life changes, constantly moving locations, and the imperative to adapt to new and diverse environments and habitats. It is a need to find identity as carer, partner, professional, creative woman, and artist.
"My early life began in the Scenic Rim - born in Beaudesert and started school at Tamborine.
The family moved to Wynnum overlooking Moreton Bay, after which I spent 20 years on pastoral properties in Queensland outback where my children were born, followed by many years in tropical Queensland. Finally I've returned to the Scenic Rim area of northern NSW. Art, like science, seeks meaning, answers, and solutions to the questions of life and change. |
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In my artwork I look for these in nature and the environment in observation, asking questions, experimenting, recording, creating and making, searching to adapt, survive, and build resilience.
As a springboard from domestic, utilitarian stitching (once part of the female 'Domestic Sciences'), I work primarily with textiles and print, layering fabrics and papers to create artworks, stitched with motifs about identity, journey, place, and current environmental changes, searching for answers and theories.
By modifying traditional embroidery methods, my stitching becomes a form of mark making creating lines, texture, shapes, and colour to emphasise my stories and explore ideas, and by disrupting the traditional notion of stitch, textiles, and women's work. I experiment with eco-printing and dyeing using plants. Waves and boats become movement; flowers, leaves, and seeds represent place, beauty, growth, and life cycle; shells denote sea creatures constantly moving home - forced to adapt to changes wrought by climatic changes and rising sea levels. My intention is for others to consider identity and place, and seek solutions to changes in their own lives and place, society, and the wider environment." |
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Also featured in the Enduring exhibition is Imagined Worlds - inside out by Janine Healy