
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
My friend Mandy's Book Launch

Wednesday, 21 November 2007
While I have a break from Tea Cosies...


"Home Ec., Happy little home maker?" 2007
This artwork is for the CAST (Contemporary Art Services Tasmania), members exhibition next month. I used a found teacup and saucer and applied hand embroidered designs and imagery with glue (not very sophisticated though effective enough!), to depict a young woman chained to the sink and surrounded by dishes to be washed, on the interior of the cup; with the exterior of the cup displaying floral foliage and two cats perhaps in pursuit of the Australian Blue Wren bird?! My feminist statement by making this artwork: Inside every home is a woman fed up with cleaning, screaming to go to the Opera or travel the world...! (well, thats the kindergarten version...it's basically an autobiographical artwork about feeling fed up with domestic calm and perceived female duties to the household!)
http://www.castgallery.org









http://www.castgallery.org










Saturday, 17 November 2007
Teacosy* Revolution Teaparty and Cosy making day at Ravenswood Primary, Tasmania...making the tea cosies






Teacosy* Revolution Teaparty and Cosy making day at Ravenswood Primary, Tasmania...making the tea




Tuesday, 6 November 2007
The Teacosy* Revolution prepares for an Australian Summer!






If you have any images or information on tea cosy dress practices from your part of the world, I would love to feature them on this blogspot (they are fictional and rather silly constructs, though I love the idea of creating a fictional/real heritage for tea cosies which sees them participating in various cultural/social roles! Invent anything you like!)
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