In Blue Stitch, Sharon Jewell draws upon images and thoughts that have arisen randomly over time, and outside the more deliberate and purposeful concerns of a life. She transforms sketches and notations, assigning them a more thoughtful duration through the methodical process of hand stitching. The collection embraces the disjunctive workings of the imagination, in a curious host of tender, funny and mysterious moments, united in a consistent shade of pen-ink blue. The works find their own ways toward meaning, as they loosely reference each other, and invoke the viewer’s imagination to make what they will of the tenuous narratives.
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RAG, CAPALABA
SATURDAY 11 MARCH –
TUESDAY 9 MAY 2023
Floor Talk and Light Lunch:
12noon Thursday 16 March 2023
Image: Sharon Jewell, Egg (detail) 2021, blue thread hand stitched onto cotton homespun, 300 x 300mm. Courtesy of the artist.
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