© 2022 Karen Stone
Morphosis
Ambiguity.
"That candy pink fibre is a bitch. Bit harsh. Maybe she's just misunderstood."
Cotton and linen fibre
180 cm x 360 cm
2019 HDR Group Exhibition - Flight Centre Headquarters & Grey St Gallery, Queensland College of Art
Image Andrew
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Images; Andy Keys
Artists and Designers from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, respond to the theme of sustainable transformations, creating works that explore ideas of environmental sustainability through recontextualising, repurposing, redesigning and recycling. Working in conjunction with Flight Centre this exhibition explores the changes and concerns in our approach to environmental sustainability and the creative responses that will guide our transformation to a greener society.
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Featued artists include: Anthony Elliott Baker, Priscilla Bracks, Rae Cooper, Deborah Eddy, Abraham Jr Garcia, Annique Goldenberg, Susan Gourley, Rachelle Mcintyre, Mathew Newkirk, Paula Payne, Gavin Sade, Ronda Sharpe, Stefania Shevchenko, Karen Stone, Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling), Jody Rallah, Claire Tracey
Artist Statement
The pulp images are a translation of memories and feelings of home, using domestic floral patterns reminiscent of my past, and recycled cotton and linen clothing sourced from op shops and donated by family and friends.
In my family homes flowers were everywhere; on the walls, on mum’s frocks and on nana’s best china. Flowers act as a metaphor for the familial conditioning of myself, a female child born in the 1950s.
Recycled clothing, once discarded and forgotten, is transformed through the pulping and artmaking process into a pulp image, with stories from the clothing’s previous owners now embedded into the art work and my story of past domestic spaces.
Bringing the past into the present asks the question “what does home mean to me?” as a single, older, non-home owning woman in contemporary Australian culture and society.