Winton Native Tapestry PRINT
78cm x 58 cm
310 gsm
Cotton rag paper
Archival ink
 
My isolation project 
9 native Australian fauna species and 12 flora species playing out from the Winton area. I started this 29th January 2020, little did I know it would keep me occupied during COVID. 1000’s of 0.1 and 0.4mm ink dots over 600 hours.
 
My inspiration was the great tapestries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It represents the light delicateness found within the hard and often unforgiving outback. The animals and plants that battle the elements yet still reflect detailed fragility and soft beauty.
 
Tapestries were woven with symbolic emblems, mottoes, or coats of arms called a baldachin, canopy of state or cloth of state, hung behind and over a throne as a symbol of authority. Often mythological, biblical and religious images and hunting scenes were popular subjects of many tapestries produced for decoration.
 
Tapestrys were my inspiration, they are a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. My stippling technique mimics this mechanism where the artisan interlaces each coloured weft back and forth in its own small pattern area. So instead of woven fabric, I’ve replaced with ink dot circles on cotton arches paper.
 
Subject list:
Western Golden Wattle
Golden Orb Weaving Spider
Honey Suckle Oak flower
Spotted Emu Bush
The Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
Ghost gum flower
Pink Fringe Myrtle flower
Painted Finch
Lolly Bush red flower
Sturt's Desert Rose
Camel Bush blue flower
Red- browed Pardalote
Parrot Pea flower
Spinifex Pigeon
Pink Mulla Mulla ‘Joey’ flower
Chequered Swallowtail butterfly
Blue Banded Bee
Fringed Lily purple flower
Night Parrot
Billy Buttons yellow flower
Amelia’s Canegrass Dragon