Weaving Labour
Summary
Weaving Labour investigates how hand woven, low resolution pictures in fluffy overgrown pixels can raise difficult questions about textile production and child labour. A public talk was held at Barometer Gallery by Emelie Röndahl and Jessica Hemmings.
Supported by
1. Sydney Craft Week and initiative of the Australian Design Centre 2. Barometer Gallery 3. HDK Adlerbertska Research Award
Description of project
Emelie Röndahl’s solo exhibition Weaving Labour at the Barometer Gallery was part of the inaugural 2017 Sydney Craft week, an initiative of the Australian Design Centre. The exhibition invitation provided an opportunity to exhibit internationally Röndahl’s practice-based research in hand-weaving, which investigates low resolution pictures in fluffy overgrown pixels woven in a traditional manner with wool-piles on a linen warp can raise difficult questions about textile production and child labour. To accompany the exhibition, Röndahl and Jessica Hemmings delivered a public talk at Barometer Gallery about the exhibition, contemporary craft practices in Scandinavia and artistic research at HDK.
Description of work included
4 hand woven tapestries:
Child Picking Cotton in Uzbekistan (2017),
At the Shore of Amygdala (triptych) (2015)
Type of work
Solo exhibition and public talk
Published in
October 7-21, 2017
Barometer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Link to web site
https://www.sydneycraftweek.com/events/weaving-labour-barometer-gallery/
http://barometer.net.au/exhibitions/list/?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=past
Date
2017Creator
Röndahl, Emelie
Keywords
textiles
labour
digital to analogue
storytelling
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng