Juliet D Collins
Mordialloc, VIC
Melbourne textile artist working in embroidered thread. Exploring themes relating to women: identity, belonging and connection to place.
MessageJuliet was born in Scotland and studied Art in Edinburgh where she achieved a MA Fine Art (sculpture) from Edinburgh University.
She has continued to create artworks in sculpture, drawing and textiles and has been exhibiting her art in galleries across Melbourne since 2007.
Recently she has been exhibiting collections of her embroidered thread drawing textile and mixed media work at various locations in both solo shows and group exhibitions.
Statement
In these thread drawings Juliet explores the experience of being a woman: empowerment,strength, sensuality, self love, vulnerability and our connections with others. She conveys a sense of a woman’s inner landscape and her connection to her environment.
Juliet says, “I choose to work in thread, using the sewing machine as a drawing tool, as I love the extremely expressive quality of the thread drawn line. All of my pieces begin as pencil/ mixed media drawings on paper, working directly from the life model. In designing the thread drawings, I carefully choose colours, patterns, textures from my large collection of preloved fabrics to convey the emotion, character and atmosphere that I wish to communicate in the piece.”
My drawing – and especially life drawing – is the starting point for all the art I make. I love life drawing – it challenges and absorbs me. I never tire of observing the beauty of the human form or of the challenge of depicting what I see.
Through exploring textile mediums in recent years I feel I have found a wonderful way of working with my life drawings that brings them to life as finished pieces. My recent works are the result of my experimentation with fabrics, machine embroidery, felting, collage and other techniques. Working in this way allows me to combine my love of drawing the figure with using exciting materials that let me express what I feel and how I experience the world.
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