Resident's Gallery

Residents Gallery, November 23rd - 15th Jan, 2017

New Textile Work

Susan Wirth

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My work often explores the connection to family and culture through our relationship to materials handed down and passed on through generations.

I view each blanket not just as a formal object, aesthetically modernist in composition and design but as a cultural relic, embedded with a sense of belonging and connection to family.

Guided by the internal logic of warp and weft, the geometric horizontal and vertical colour structures of each blanket, I use a method of drawing and cutting to create new patterns and rhythms. They become reconfigured maps of unknown destinations, interrupted signals and new forms in space to enter, view and orbit.