Abstract:
A curated group exhibition featuring work by artists working with textiles, “A Stitch in Time” brings together the work of nine artists exploring textiles in very different ways…. Includes work by ERICA VAN ZON, RICHARD ORJIS, VICTORIA MUNRO, DAN ARPS, FIONA JACK, ANI O'NEILL, YOLUNDA HICKMAN, GAVIN HURLEY and EMMA FITTS. ... FIONA JACK presents a selection of recent banner works that are witty, lyrical and thought provoking all at the same time. “One of the banners…repeats the word ‘tiresome’ over and over again in a cursive script. It has been appropriated from a child’s workbook Jack found in Taranaki. A child had been given the task of repeating certain words to develop her hand, and she had, in an apparent act of self-love, made a space for her own feelings in this labour.” (Gwynneth Porter, The Heraldry of Presence exhibition catalogue, Fresh Gallery Otara, 2014). The other work takes its cue from Christchurch based artist Bill Sutton’s journals where in 1922 he wrote - “When I have my breakfast, I cut off a slice of bread for myself and one for the birds. We are all in it together.” Gwynneth Porter describes Jack’s work as “…a practise that involves observation, and indexes something fleeting. There is also the direct repurposing of forms of presentation, and the desire to mediate on change and social cost” (Gweneth Porter, ibid. 2014).
