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September 25, 2024

2024

14 x 7 x 7.5 cm

Copper wire, handmade cloth cordage

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It's a mystery! Come along to the Threads of Belon

It's a mystery!
Come along to the Threads of Belonging Exhibition - all art is $150 - to support Arts Funding at Woodleigh School
6 - 22 Feb 2026
https://www.woodleigh.vic.edu.au/community/threads

#ThreadsofBelonging #WoodleighSchool #AustralianArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtExhibition #ArtistBursary #EmergingArtist #ArtCollector #ArtsEducation #SupportAustralianArtists

#Repost @fibrearts.australia with @use.repost ・・・

#Repost @fibrearts.australia with @use.repost
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Jill Migliette @jillmigliettitextileart , Costly Repairs:
In Conversation with the Artists at the opening of the International Art Textile Biennale 2025 at East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale
Antique Japanese hemp, vintage silk thread, salvaged copper wire, found beads

Costly Repairs has many layers of meaning and has been stitched at a time of great change and personal transition.
On the most basic level, it looks at the modern conundrum of repairs. We have a fragment of old, fragile and damaged woven hemp. The silk thread I used was also a vintage remnant, purchased in Kyoto from a roadside stall.
The copper wire has been salvaged from our family manufacturing business. It was taken from machines that are now virtually obsolete and have to be scrapped. The scrap value of these machines is next to nothing, while the copper wiring, due to technological changes, is now very valuable. Ther’s an irony that this tiny element is worth more than the machines which have spent thousands of hours sustaining our livelihood and being part of Australia’s manufacturing history. The conundrum then; why use something so valuable to repair something so old and seemingly worthless?
The process of stitching with this fine wire has necessitated making slow and careful headway and it has been a time of reflection and gentle shifts of consciousness. We are getting ready to move out of that business and into a new phase of life. There will be losses we can’t avoid and some we can’t yet see. Through this transition, however, we have become stronger, carefully shoring up the beautiful life we have, troubles and all, and creating a legacy for the future. The parallel is that we don’t need to ‘fix’ everything, it can’t be done. We can honour the remnants of the past and how they have served us, give new framework to the present and strengthen the future, all with the gentle rhythm of stitching.
This is my personal tribute to resilience and repair and to allowing imperfection and uncertainty some space in my life.
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#iatb25 #arttextiles #fibrearts #fibrearts.australia

Costly Repairs (Detail) My work in the Internation

Costly Repairs (Detail)
My work in the International Art Textile Biennale on NOW at East Gippsland Art Gallery and TOURING until September 2026. See the full Artists Directory and Catalogue here:
https://www.fibrearts.net.au/iatb25-directory.html

So excited to be included in this amazing event. I

So excited to be included in this amazing event. If you have a chance, come on down!!

A great opening night and so many other great arti

A great opening night and so many other great artists on show as well. Come along Wednesday to Sunday to see them all!

Open now @red.gallery with @n.jay18 Remnant | Rep

Open now @red.gallery with @n.jay18
Remnant | Repair
Official opening tomorrow at 6pm. Come and join us! #remnant #fibreart #repair #textileart #textileartist #redgallery

It's Live on Wednesday 25/9/24! Remnant | Repair w

It's Live on Wednesday 25/9/24!
Remnant | Repair with @n.jay18
at @red.gallery in Fitzroy North
Details on their website https://www.redgallery.com.au/upcoming
#remnant #repair #fibreart #textileart #redgallery #textileartist

From circumstance comes change. These machines and

From circumstance comes change. These machines and their copper wiring have sustained our family business for 2 generations. It’s time to retire them but I’m honouring their passing and our own transition by using their history as a basis for the exhibition #remnantrepair coming up soon at @red.gallery
Together with @n.jay18 we share stories of transformation through our choice of materials with previous lives.
#remnant #scrap #textileart #fibreart #assemblageart

Progress with this very fragile, vintage Japanese

Progress with this very fragile, vintage Japanese hemp, being stitched with silk thread. Definitely #slowstitching #remnant #repair For our upcoming exhibition Remnant | Repair with @n.jay18 25 September at @red.gallery in Fitzroy Vic. #fibreartist #textileartist

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