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30 - India Flint
The Art
“seven sisters, seven daughters” by India Flint
silk hand dyed with eucalyptus, grevillia and casuarina.
India Flint writes…
I work with cloth, paper, felt, weaving, stitch and bio-regionally gathered ecologically sustainable dyes – a rather long-winded way of saying “windfallen leaves, bark, weeds and earth pigments”. The work has been described as using “the earth as the printing plate and time as the press”.
“Seven Sisters”
These artworks are part of a joint exhibition “Sete Filhas, Sete Irmãs” (seven sisters, seven daughters) with Sally Stafford that looks at the lives of seven women who were passionate about plants. The dresses would fit a medium sized human, are made of silk and dyed with eucalyptus, grevillia and casuarina. They are suspended from a circlet of found branches.
The Music
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Project 52.
The Artists
1 - Kathryn Portelli
2 - Helen Hiebert
3 - Petrus Spronk
4 - Ann Lewis
6 - Cornelius Cardew
7 - Bronle Crosby
10 - Casey Klahn
11 - Maggie Ruley
12 - Jim Carpenter
13 - Gerda Tobler
14 - Pete Goodlet
15 - Kathleen O’Brien
16 - Cynthia Morris
17 - Mark Payne
18 - Juli Cady Ryan
19 - Shakespeare
20 - Jack Fisher
21 -Nanci Hersh
22 - Padraig McCaul
23 - Laurie LeBreton
24 - Sophia Khan
25 - Linnet Hunter
26 - Lisa Call
27 - Brenda York
28 - Holly Wilson
29 - Dariusz Klimczak
30 - India Flint
31 - Chris Maynard
32 - Mauricio Paz Viola
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35 - Patty Sgrecci
I am intrigued by India’s gentle philosophy and processes, particularly with her focus on place and memory, which in my mind are akin to themes in Alice Sebold’s novel “The Lovely Bones”.
When I discovered the title of India’s joint exhibition, initially I thought of the stories – both the Aboriginal and the Greek – around the star constellation; but then I learnt of the seven women's passion for plants was the inspiration behind this body of work. (Georgiana Molloy of west Australia was one of them).
My music explores that topic: seven botanists' voices meander, each with herstory; a common thread of being connected to a nub in the feminine ether;
Thank-you for spending your time here.
Helen
"Helen, it’s a joy to be here, thank you."
India Flint