This abundance of fabric guaranteed a surplus of useable remnants. 21 years later and these classic offcuts from different series including Menu Boards, Chalk Boards, Aeroplane Jelly, Landscape and figurative works come out of storage to be given a new life as quintessential bags.
From the Menu Board series
Text, language and aesthetics of chalkboard café menus and roadside food stalls are reinvented with beauty and meaning. Signs assume cultural, geographical and even economic symbolism while retaining an intriguing ambiguity.
Label: Chalk Board bag #1
Style: Crossbody bag
Material: Recycled paintings
Fully lined with Calico
Strap length: 111cm
Bag size: 34x33cm
The beginning of 2000 was a shift in focus from easel painting and return to a process started in Art College; the assemblage of paintings through stitching. These signature works required a disproportionate amount of combinable canvas and calico, all decorated with distinctive marks and surface treatment of cunningly conforming patterns, colours and imagery. This abundance of fabric guaranteed a surplus of useable remnants. 21 years later and these classic offcuts from different series including Menu Boards, Chalk Boards, Aeroplane Jelly, Landscape and figurative works come out of storage to be given a new life as quintessential bags.
