PRISM 2009
Headline: A Sense of the Moment
An Exhibition of Textile Art
3 - 7 March
Mall Galleries, The Mall, Trafalgar Square
Moments passing
Moments captured
Fragments of lives
For me the title encompassed everything that is transitory in life - we live now, in a moment and the past has gone and cannot be recaptured, tomorrow has yet to happen. Similarly, newspaper headlines seize the moment representing a snapshot of life.
My portraits are natural, impromptu snapshots of people going about their lives. Different people, different ages, different lives, moments captured against a backdrop of world events.
Taken from drawings made on trains, at airports, in waiting rooms and cafes I have translated them into stitch, free machined onto a background of sheer cotton, superimposed with newspaper headlines from the past couple of months.
Three panels, each approximately 1m x 35 cm
Private View is this evening
And I'm there all day on Friday, stewarding.
Do come and say hello!
Very very lovely, well done.
ReplyDeleteWish I was closer, I would definately be there, maybe another time...
wow that is amazing Gina and very thought provoking.
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They remind me of Hockney's pen and ink drawings.
ReplyDeleteI love how you've kept the spontaneous line of a sketch with the machine stitching.
Hope the exhibition is a huge success.
Celia
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These look very effective, Gina. Good luck with the exhibition to you and everyone. I had hoped to come down but won't be able to after all. Have a good day Friday.
ReplyDeleteAmazing work. I think that the text just showing through is magical.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the exhibition is well received.
The panels are wonderful, good luck with the exhibition
ReplyDeleteGina,they are wonderful,what a great idea.I wish I could come and see them,I'll just have to get all the details from my sister after she has been.
ReplyDeleteHope it all goes well.
Judith.
This is such a clever idea and beautifully executed. Can I say 'hello' here? Inspite of all it's delights I have become too lazy to travel to London. Hope the exhibition is a great success, it usually is.
ReplyDeleteGINA!!!! THey are WONDERFUL, Amazing, so clever! This is proper art with stitches (as opposed to the exhibition i saw on the weekend). Breathtaking and awewome. I am amazed! You are so talented!!!! x
ReplyDeleteI've said it before, and I'll say it again - your free stitching is just so lovely. I have huge admiration for your talent (and for you as a person as well, actually). x
ReplyDeleteWish I could go but work gets in the way, Good luck for the exhibition. Jane x
ReplyDeleteAs always Gina, WOW!!!!
ReplyDeleteLucy x
Your work looks great and I'm sure it will lok stunning in situ-as will you-naturally!
ReplyDeleteGina, What wonderful wonderful work. I love the headlines showing through - super-imposed ...How in the world???
ReplyDeleteI hope the show is super-successful. Your pieces are brilliant.
Wish I could visit, great stitching.x
ReplyDeleteI would love to come and see your work in situ at the exhibition, but I am working all week and at a workshop Saturday. It looks wonderful,I hope the exhibition goes well.
ReplyDeleteVery cool Gina! It took me halfway through the pictures to realize that they were stitched. Love the print with them too!
ReplyDeleteYour work looks as wonderful as ever. I am looking forward to Friday.
ReplyDeleteI would love to come and see this exhibition. These pieces are stunning.
ReplyDeleteand its black, no sugar and I would love some cake!
hope you are well and do brilliantly at the exhibition. x
These are fabulous Gina - I love the way the different portraits merge into eachother. I'd so love to come and see this - how very very exciting! Emma x
ReplyDeleteThey are lovelly, I wish I could get up to London again this week to see them. Fantastic
ReplyDeleteKimx
Quite amazing, Gina xx
ReplyDeleteHi Gina
ReplyDeleteI went to Prism today and wow!!!! what a surprise when was admiring your work and realised that i knew who you were from the blogs.
Your pieces look wonderful, well done.
Thank you Gina, I am always very critical of my work and never think that it is good enough, so that is why I was chuffed.
ReplyDeleteOh how lovely! You really are clever.
ReplyDeleteWonderful work Gina! Love the background with the text showing through.
ReplyDeleteamazing ~ wonderful work would have loved to see it for real.
ReplyDeleteMmm I'm liking these.
ReplyDeleteI was at the felt group yesterday with Fiona Rainford who was showing the Cd and I was delighted o name drop when i saw yours. I hadn't picked up that you were in the same exhibition. Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteHope Jersey is/was great.
GORGEOUS!
ReplyDeleteWonderfullly inspiring work. Well done Gina and so many of your fans obviously agree!
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