Unique Perspectives Part III

The second textile artist on show at this exiting exhibition is Jiyoung Chung (USA/Korea) with her work titled Joomchi Paper Works.

Jiyoung Chung is a tutor at TAFTA's 2011 Geelong Forum and Janet de Boer of TAFTA has very kindly allowed us to reproduce this article from Textile Fibre Forum Issue 2, No 102, 2011 -

For more pictures of Jiyoung Chung's work click here.

UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES: TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS – Felted work by Helen O’Hare (Ireland), and Joomchi Paper Works by Jiyoung Chung (USA/Korea) is presented by BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERIES 23 September – 13 November2011, in partnership with Fibres West 2011.

Unique Perspectives Part II

If your head is still spinning from the size of Helen O'Hare's work in yesterdays post we have some more pictures for you but first - let's meet Helen-

Helen's Workshop

Clearly Helen needs a big space to work in when you consider the size of some of her exhibition pieces.  She's based in Northern Ireland and you can read more about her work by clicking here.

We have some more pictures of her work; these kindly sent to us by Janet de Boer of TAFTA (Australian Forum For Textiles Arts Ltd) -

Section of large piece.

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1999 Felt work.

Helen's beautiful installation work will be on view at BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERIES 23 September – 13 November 2011.  

Don't miss it!

Unique Perspectives Part I

Convergence participants may like to take a break from all the felting and have a trip out.

Bunbury Regional Art Galleries Photo By strasser©paul - Panoramio

We have therefore organised a trip to  BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERIES , for you to enjoy  UNIQUE PERSPECTIVES: TWO SOLO EXHIBITIONS – Felted work by Helen O’Hare (Ireland), and Joomchi Paper Works by Jiyoung Chung (USA/Korea). Brilliant, expressive, inspiring work representing the diversity of textile and fibre art across the world.  This exhibition is brought to us by Bunbury Regional Art Galleries in partnership with Fibres West 2011, and runs from 23 September – 13 November 2011.

First lets look at Helen O'Hare who is a talented artist doing some amazing felt work as you can see from these photos which she very kindly sent us -

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Look in tomorrow to see more of Helen's work.

Pictures from an Exhibition - Double Trouble

Artist Robyn Grigg
Price NFS

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Pictures from an Exhibition

For those of you who weren't able to Take a Seat at Cafe Fez in Bunbury we are going to treat you this month to pictures from our exhibition.  So sit back, put Mussorgsky's beautiful music on the CD player and enjoy.

Lady Bird Lady Bird
Artist - Joan Kent

Felt Exhibition Opening Soon

There is a beautiful exhibition of felted chairs opening at 2.00pm 8th August 2010 at Cafe Fez, 18-20 Princep Street, Bunbury.

The exhibition is titled "Take a Seat" and is an all age appropriate collection of high quality textile art. The exhibition is presented by the Bunbury Felters group and includes many items for sale.

If you are in the area please come and view this colourful and vibrant display and enjoy Cafe Fez's excellent choices of food and drinks whilst you " Take a Seat ".

The exhibition runs from Sunday 8th August to Friday 3rd September 2010.

Venue: Cafe Fez, 18-20 Princep Street, Bunbury, Western Australia