A few weeks ago I was contacted by two asian textiles collectors, David and Sue Richardson from the UK who have started their own website,
Asian Textile Studies. They had found my blog over the internet and wanted to know if they could use some of the photos I had taken of my cloths that I had dyed whilst I was artist in residence at
Rimbun Dahan in 2013. Specifically, they were after brown dyes for their last chapter on the website.
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Rambutan skins with alum (left) and iron (right) on different silks |
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Mangosteen skins with alum on cotton (left) and 3 types of silk |
Their email to me came just in time - I have been working hard in the studio to finish off a number of naturally dyed textiles for an upcoming group exhibition about my time in Malaysia, entitled
Here & There. So of course I have been cutting up these larger pieces of cloth to use in my exhibition. If the email had come any later I would not have had anything to give them for their website!
Here & There will be shown at the Belconnen Art Centre in late April, so I will write a more descriptive post about the exhibition closer to the time.
More photos of my work can be found on the Asian Textile Studies website
here.