Earthrise by Anne Menary
We are delighted to announce that Anne Menary: teacher, textile artist and dear friend of Created Gallery will be having an exhibition here this autumn. Many of you will be familiar with Anne’s work: her fabric postcards and the previous exhibition at Created, Postcards from a Time Traveller. Her new work is called ‘Stitching the Solar System’ and is a series of nine textile pictures based on each planet in our solar system.
Anne says “A solitary spaceman visits each planet in turn and gathers further evidence…surely there is chocolate on the red planet?”
Surely there is chocolate on the red planet?
As is Anne usual technique, all the pieces have been hand stitched on cotton
or silk using an eclectic mix of fabrics such as pin striped wools and old
fashioned crimplene as well as silk painted fabrics, felts, cottons and
assorted trimmings. Colours, planets and spaceships have been depicted
surprisingly accurately with a variety of traditional and contemporary
embroidery techniques.
Excitingly, Anne has agreed to give a talk on her Cosmic Theme work at the new centre for St Thomas’s Church. The title of the talk is ‘The Fabric of the Universe’. Numbers will be limited & tickets are on sale from 6th August at Created Gallery. The date for the talk is Monday 26th September and it starts at 7pm.
From the beginning of August Anne will be counting down to the Created exhibition, starting with the planet Mercury, on her facebook page which can be found on Anne’s website www.annemenary.com.
