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Floating Fossil

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dc.contributor.authorKirk, Valerie
dc.coverage.spatialNational Craft and Design Centre, Sleaford, UK
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T01:50:32Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-01
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T10:33:35Z
dc.description.abstractThe work evolved from visits to the Age of Fishes Museum at Canowindra, NSW, Australia and it explores a fossil image translated through drawing into woven tapestry. The work embodies ideas about the distant past and our inability to fully visualise this as although we have remains, museum exhibits and artists’ impressions, the reality of the past will always be beyond our grasp. The floating form alludes to a state of impermanence, transition and dislocation while the colour palette references an intangible space between water, earth and sky. ‘Here and Now’ is the first major exhibition of international contemporary tapestry since 1994 and is curated by Lesley Millar in partnership with NCCD.en_AU
dc.format.extent1 worksen_AU
dc.format.extent1m x 1m, tapestryen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/238232
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherNational Craft and Design Centreen_AU
dc.rights© 2017 The Authorsen_AU
dc.sourceHere and Nowen_AU
dc.titleFloating Fossilen_AU
dc.typeCreative worken_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationSleaford, UK
local.contributor.affiliationKirk, Valerie, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKirk, Valerie, u9311287en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor190502 - Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting)en_AU
local.identifier.absseo950104 - The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft)en_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4793941xPUB285en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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