Pompom animal sculptures by Troy Emery

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By Troy Emery in New Art on Thursday 14 March 2013

Utopian rainbow motifs, patination or block colours envelop the contours of animal bodies to create abstracted hybrid-creatures. Through this process they transform into something new. Troy Emery is proposing that they could exist somewhere in a parallel universe or fantasy landscape. Some pieces incorporate fake rocks used as taxidermy mounts for display devices; here they [...]

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Limited edition macramé sculptures

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By Jessie Tucker in New Art on Tuesday 1 May 2012

Macramé is my latest crafty obsession. I was originally attracted to it for its borderline wrongness and 70s nostalgia. But with some pop colour palettes, some handmade beads, and some thinking outside the dusty jute square, macramé has been reborn. I have made limited edition pieces under my label Jumble for Edition X, a spunky online limited edition gift and affordable art store.

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Adam and Eve in crochet and collage

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By Sarah Howell in New Events on Tuesday 28 September 2010

Sydney and London-based artists Kirsten Fredericks and Sarah Howell explore the holiest of power couples in their first joint exhibition: Adam and Eve. The artists invite viewers to sample the fruits in their Garden of Eden, with works that explore the masculine and feminine, the playfulness of sex, kitschy animalia and a uniquely perverse, tongue-in-cheek [...]

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