Mother Yarns
Footscray Community Art Centre, 2016
Part collaboration, part retrospective, Mother Yarns showcased textile works of Sue Musgrove (my mother) spanning forty years, positioned against banners and texts that responded to the profound impact her home-based practice had on my own.
'Soft and Warm' digital printed satin banner (2016)
'My Grandmother Frances' quilted wall hanging, digital textile print, watercolour pencil and ink (2016)
'Warming Our Backs on the Wall After the Morning Swim' Sue Musgrove. Mixed media textile work (1989)
'On the Shoulders of Giants' digital printed satin banner (2016)
'Just Monkeys' digital printed satin banner (2016)
'Pattern and the Personal' digital printed satin banner (2016)
'Mother and Child by Moonlight' Sue Musgrove, Mixed media textile work (2016)
Detail 'Mother and Child by Moonlight' Sue Musgrove, Mixed media textile work (2016)
Detail 'Mother and Child by Moonlight' Sue Musgrove, Mixed media textile work (2016)
Custom jumper designed and knitted by Sue Musgrove (2016)
Photographs: Max Milne