Visiting artist India Flint takes the opportunity to show the public some of her work while in Canada to teach a workshop on natural dyes through NSCAD's Extended Studies.
Mapping Country
November 1 - 12, 2011
Anna Leonowens Gallery1891 Granville Street
Opening Reception Monday October 31st at 5:30PM
Gallery 3
"India Flint works with windfall leaves, cloth and stitch to make pieced textile works in which the colour is printed directly onto the cloth from the leaf. Flint explains:
No toxic adjuncts are used in this process that relies on variables such as the water used to make up the dye bath, the composition of the dye vessel, the plant material employed and the responsiveness of the fibre to generate colour on the cloth. Each dyed fragment involves a walk; maybe through woods and forests, fields and paddocks, along rivers and by the sea or through suburbs and cities. Windfall leaves are collected at previously determined trig points such as the call of a bird, the end of a verse of song in my head or the simple counting of steps. The pieces are documents of place; maps and landscape ‘drawings’ formed through the application of colour derived from the land."
Via Anna Leonowens
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