the 'Finding...' series - Dec 2017
Lost and Found - EFTAG exhibition Dec 2017
Revive - exhibition using recycled materials - Eurobodalla Nov 2017
'Threatened Species' - Winner of the People's Choice Award
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Multicultural - inspired by the beauty and diversity of fungi
Exhibited as a single work at Up the Garden Path - Sculpture exhibition - Eurobodalla Botanic Gardens October 2017
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The Space Between - exhibition April 2017
The Fibre of My Being - EFTAG exhibition Dec 2016
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Arachnophilia? or Miss Muffet's Nightmare?
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The Traveller
(exhibited at Feltportation: Contemporary Art in Felt, FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong , Sept 2013) |
I have been travelling for over 40 years. I was hooked young and travelled ‘seriously’, with a lust for learning. Over time I became aware of numerous things that affected the way I experienced the journey, often creating a sense of insulation.
Language barriers, prejudices and preconceptions, ignorance of culture and traditions, and a reluctance to venture far outside our comfort zones, all contribute layers of insulation. So also can the limited amount of time we are willing (or able) to spend, and the fact that we usually travel in the company of ‘our own kind’.
Language barriers, prejudices and preconceptions, ignorance of culture and traditions, and a reluctance to venture far outside our comfort zones, all contribute layers of insulation. So also can the limited amount of time we are willing (or able) to spend, and the fact that we usually travel in the company of ‘our own kind’.
But even if we are able to peel back these layers, we are left peering through portholes – our vision limited. The fact that we have a ready escape route – back to the relative affluence, comfort and safety of our own homes – means we can never know what it is truly like to be our hosts.
Our ‘digital eyes’, collectors and custodians of our memory joggers, suffer similarly from restricted vision, omitting all that is outside the frame and capturing so little of what is within. Thus our travel is reduced to a kind of mutual voyeurism – providing titillation on both sides, but no real connection. I was excited by the opportunity to explore these ideas using felt. Its insulating properties, and its long association with travel – from the saddles rugs of camels on the Silk Road trade routes to the mobile homes of nomads - made it the perfect medium. |
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Beam Me Up Scotty
(exhibited in Feltportation: Contemporary Art in Felt,
FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong , Sept 2013)
Think Startrek … teleport… Spock…
(exhibited in Feltportation: Contemporary Art in Felt,
FCA Gallery, University of Wollongong , Sept 2013)
Think Startrek … teleport… Spock…
HeartFelt
A heart bound with barbed wire
bleeds with every beat
fears to beat
for every pulse brings pain.
How does healing come?
Can tortured tissue grow
enfold the barbs
embrace the pain
and beat again
with joy?
(Copyright Julie Brennan 2006)
(Exhibited EFTAG exhibition 2006, & Journeys of Grief exhibition Moruya 2008)
A heart bound with barbed wire
bleeds with every beat
fears to beat
for every pulse brings pain.
How does healing come?
Can tortured tissue grow
enfold the barbs
embrace the pain
and beat again
with joy?
(Copyright Julie Brennan 2006)
(Exhibited EFTAG exhibition 2006, & Journeys of Grief exhibition Moruya 2008)
Animal-vegetable hybrid