Comments by the fabricators of the HANDMADE APRONS:
Caroline Chisholm always spoke of ‘Providence’ present in her life and in the situations she faced. Likewise, it was her Christian beliefs that led her to ‘provide’ homes for many.
Related website: http://www.livingmuseum.org.au/chisholms%20homes/community/letteredaprons.html
Comments by the fabricators on the HANDMADE APRONS:
Related website: http://www.livingmuseum.org.au/chisholms%20homes/community/letteredaprons.html
Comment on chat about being the mother of six young children…
8:31 PM I think I looked tired most often but I was so busy that I did not know it. Though my life has never revolved singularly around ‘my children’ and inside I was always ‘the practicing artist’, I was content with the art that happened during that time as I never wanted to give up anything concerning you all. I tried to squeeze the art outcomes around time with you – not because I had to, but I needed to be with you perhaps even more than you needed to be with me. I didn’t know that I was learning essential things that were to become my art now. These things I learned make my art valuable and worthwhile…and good. I must never feel a failure…I have all of you…even if I am never a well-known artist…xx
8:32 PM goodnight 🙂
8:35 PM Matthias: just because you’re not well known doesn’t stop you from being important.
8:36 PM and we are thankful for your effort in our lives.
So, the exhibition is finished at Maryborough. It is all packed up and ready to be picked by Tom and I. We will first pack the van and drop that load off at Wangaratta. Then we will pick up the work from Maryborough and drop that off at Wangaratta on the way back from Melbourne.
Kathy and Tim Peitsch will be with us. They are the first of the extended PEITSCH family to be visiting in over 18 years! Quite wonderful that they choose to claim us and really like Australia too. Feels very good to play such an important role in our mutual lives. Hope we don’t have to wait another 18 years…
Like my sisters who visit…this is family at its best!
Chat online
8:26 PM me: thanks for the chat….xxxooo
8:28 PM Matthias: love you.
8:30 PM me: love you too. oh, i meant to tell you…looking at old photos and artifacts from Lobethal about you young boys was very sobbering (yes sobbering) for me. Looking from this distance, I realized how full my life once was and how much energy I put into you all. I found you all so interesting and important and very, very cute – even when you were naughty. I hope I remembered to be happy too.
Hello Flossie
Thank you for sending through the great newspaper article, which I read with interest.
Well, it’s nearly time for the exhibition to close in Maryborough – my, my how time does fly!! I will get a chance to thank you in person, but I would also like to say thankyou, so very much, for allowing us to exhibit your work. The exhibition has provided us with some interesting comments; the majority being very positive. I’m sorry no-one really embraced the idea of the blog; it doesn’t surprise me.
I wish you every success with the tour and with your art in general. It was a pleasure working with you, and meeting you and your wonderful family.
With best wishes,
Kay
Dear Flos
The exhibition looks really slick and visit-worthy … congrats!
A few positive comments always helps – some people find this kind of conceptual installation kind of art very difficult because it requires levels of thought – it’s always much easier to view a series of chocolate box type pictures than a display that requires something from the viewer … methinks you done good.
Keep well and creative
Love X (Anthony)
Related website: Game of life…
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Bree Fuller wrote:
Hi Flossie,
Sorry, we haven’t forgot about you! I should have been in contact earlier to tell you that the story was held over (it’s actually planned to go in this Saturday’s newspaper). My apologies for not letting you know sooner.
All the best (I hope the shows are going well so far),
Bree, Mercury Newspapers, Wollongong, NSW
Many thanks, Bree. I look forward to this. Yes, BED, BREAKFAST & BELIEF had a great Opening in Maryborough and the BBBBlogit is working out so well! It has had plenty of hits! Makes it feel like I am there chatting to the viewers – though my work is challenging to ‘read’ at the best times. The invitations for the Wangaratta Opening are going in the post next week. I will be doing an artist’s talk there too. Should be fun.
Cheers,
Flossie
Jane Meegen of Adelaide wrote in the Maryborough guest book:
‘It made me think about our houses and what makes them a home’
Flossie replied…That is a super comment! Indeed, houses are different from homes. We can not control where we live sometimes but we can always impact how we live. Just what I was waiting to hear! Makes all the effort to make art worthwhile.
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Central Goldfields Art Gallery wrote:
Flossie, please explain the concepts behind the work Holy Safety Net as then I can explain to any visitors that peer through the net and may be wondering also. Is there perhaps a direct reference to lost sheep within your own community, or is this too literal an interpretation?
Cheers Jill
Hi Jill,
Lost sheep? That is a great idea. I haven’t thought of that…I like it. It works…as if to keep people together at all costs, like catching escaping animals.
Safety Net was crafted by an artist living in England who had made it a few years ago during her residency at ANU, Canberra. It alluded to the many safety barriers around council road works she observed. It hung outside for a few years and needed to be removed so I got it, washed it and it virtually fell to pieces. It was so sun and weather stuck! Later given the artist Sophie Horton’s permission, I established it in a new role…
Here as it covers a nearly extinct occurrence ‘family at breakfast’. I thought of the net as our trying to ‘recover’ this lost culturally important art…but our net has holes, literally seen in this net. Holy has a double meaning referring also to transferring beliefs. Nothing can compete with the intruding culture of mobile phones, the web and the old standby…television – which all invade mealtimes and our conversations.
See Sophie Horton for some interesting sculptures and installations.
I finished my latest art installation. I partially recycled my ‘used installation’ ALL FIRED UP’ as the base and worked a new level of interest and meaning. This piece prompting many levels of interpretation, was mostly inspired by the story told by one of my friends about how her father miraculously survived last year’s Victorian bushfires – loosing everything but his life and grateful for even that – then, returning to where his home had stood retrieved the buried ashes of his long ago deceased wife. It’s a story containing irony, pathos his special humor. Look at the images. I documented the package ready to travel the AGNSW. Surprisingly, it looks to me like a body bag itself! Perhaps it has more chance of being exhibited at the AGNSW – left wrapped! It would befit my current artistic sentiment, too.
