Title: THREADS ….the fabric of Imagination
Year: 2024
Project Type: Group Show and Installation Event
Location: Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery & The Garden Studio, Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park
Materials: Mixed Media
Threads is an evocative group art exhibition that brings together art, nature, and creative exploration. Featuring the work of three distinct Melbourne-based artists— Mia Rappel, Madhu Henry, and Eamon (Jungle) Wyss—this event weaves together diverse artistic mediums to explore personal and collective connections to the landscape, seasonal rhythms, and elemental forces.
Mia Rappel, a visual artist, explores the meeting points of nature and the human experience through textile and cyanotype collages made from foraged materials, creating a tactile dialogue between colours and textures. Eamon Wyss captures Victoria's salt lakes through fine art drone photography, transforming them into abstract compositions that evoke a raw, unfiltered connection to the land, printed onto silk scarves. Madhu Henry, a movement, sound and visual artist, uses layered photography to reveal the intricate connection between Human - Nature as a moving landscape, inviting viewers to explore the relationship between inner and outer worlds.
Threads consisted of a three week show in the Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery, with a special opening day event that began in the gallery and journeyed into The Garden Studio.
After a lively viewing of the gallery show with an introduction from Gasworks curator Tracey McIrvine a tinkling bell beckoned us out into the corridor. A pop-up dance experience by Brendan O’Connor began the journey, followed by a people parade through the gardens. Madhu’s soundscape and ritual performance piece ‘Elements’ welcomed us into the Garden Studio with our special guests Ben Temple Step on sound and Sean Candy on Didgeridoo. Following on was a peruse of Mia’s Textile Installation ‘Blue’, with drinks, beading and conversation taking in the garden surrounds. Our finale for the day was Eamon’s ‘ Salt Lakes in Silk’ wearable art parade, where the participating artists showcased a selection of the silk scarves amongst the installations.
Threads were truly woven; a beautiful and evocative day was had.