Friday, 18 September 2009
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Monday, 7 September 2009
I've just created a flickr group for photos from Weston Arts Festival- if you have any from the Frou Frou exhibition feel free to add them: Weston Arts Festival 2009
Also i'm happy to say that both Cathy and Joetta's work has now arrived safely and work is beginning on installation of the show. You can catch a sneak peek of some of Karen Ruane's work if you pop into Frou Frou this week.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Karen Ruane
For Frou Frou she has sent a selection of buttons, pin cushions, small cushions and two of her fabulous 'Wrapping Cloths' which we are handling with kid gloves as they are so delicate.
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Cathy Cullis
Lou Trigg
Lou Trigg is a mixed media artist whose work is primarily sewn, embroidered and installation based. She has also written a book of intimate poetry.
Her primary focus is on the invisibility of women in their 50’s. Cosmetic surgery has become the norm and is seen in a similar light to changing hair colour or buying a new dress. Looking good equates to looking young. Women over 50 are not allowed to look their age - as if ageing itself is a disease and, unless their faces have been stretched to appear expressionless, women ‘of a certain age’ simply become invisible.
Her MA exhibition at Brighton University in 2008 depicted over 30 stitched scenes from her childhood together with a 4 minute animation of the work: www.blip.tv/file/1260753
In May 2009 at the Brighton Open House exhibition, she exhibited some embroidered “stitchures” from her series entitled “Tragic Women” together with a dressing table installation depicting a vast array of original cosmetics from the 1950’s and 60’s showing the efforts made by an older woman to “keep young and beautiful”
In 2008 Lou self published a book of poetry entitled Old Tales of Love and Desire, www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/349453 which is currently available at www.blurb.com.
Her recent stitched ‘Dating Profiles’ are an amusing, if not somewhat worrying, look at how men present themselves on internet dating sites.
Lou has been invited to exhibit at the Brighton Art Fair in October 2009 and her entire works will then be available as a complete collection for exhibiting further afield.
Lou is about to start her second MA in Gender and Media which will further inform her sewn work.
If you would like more information please contact: lulu@screaminglulu.com
www.theinvisiblewoman.co.uk and www.screaminglulu.com
Joetta Maue
My studio practices involve labor-intensive techniques that force me to work slowly, meticulously, and daily on my work. The finished work becomes a map of my daily life through the slow stitching of images and words. By using found, used linens that have been hand made by a women of the past I am able to connect my everyday experience with that of my heritage. I pay homage to the women that have come before me and connect to the lineage that I have with them in the domestic, everyday sphere of life.
www.joettamaue.com