{"id":1327,"date":"2010-09-13T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2011-10-04T16:57:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:57:04","slug":"connecting-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"connecting threads"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it took me a week to get through ABC TV’s<\/a> show Art Nation<\/a> last week, I finished it yesterday. Lucky I persevered (which reminds me, I have to get through The Baroque episode I missed before it’s yanked from iView<\/a>) as there was an interesting segment on a Melbourne based Pacific Islander weaving group.<\/p>\n

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I’d read about Maryann Talia Pau<\/a> on Kevin Murray’s Craft Unbound<\/a> site recently, and saw some of her works that were displayed at the NGV<\/a> alongside the in the Wisdom of the Mountain: Art of the \u00d6mie<\/a> exhibition at the NGV earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Aside from creating truly awesome work which is shown in the piece above, the video explains that she has instituted a group working environment where crafts-people can get together to engage in the other side of making – communication.<\/p>\n

We make to communicate with others, to have a dialogue between ourselves, the object and the wearer or viewer. Even the critics at the Wheeler Centre<\/a> the other night understood the need that artists have to be acknowledged by someone, simply because, as I see it, making art is a form of communication. I make in objects things that I can’t communicate in any other way. And just like when I talk, I like feedback, to know that my unspoken dialogue is being seen or felt in some way.<\/p>\n

So why communicate as you work then? Well, talking as you make work lets the object into the conversation. You communicate at once with your circle and with a future audience via the object under construction. While making you have a dialogue with the object in the hand and with others via the same object, the movements of your hand, as well as through verbal communication.<\/p>\n

The works I make when talking amongst a group are different to what I make when I commune with a piece alone, and different again when collaborating with a single other person. The lessons I learn in a group are thus different to those I learn alone in the studio. And in a group I have been exposed to other ways of making than my own, which is one of the most compelling reasons for undertaking such work.<\/p>\n

An example: at last week’s Part B<\/a> meet, Gillian Hillman<\/a> gave the group a two minute ‘how to’ session for creating a particular gem setting for a ring. She upended the process that Mary<\/a> had been using, explaining one that was both simpler and more refined. Sharing knowledge through working in a group, such as Gillian’s making process, will obviously make ones output within the group different to ones solo pieces. But there lies the potential to enhance ones solo projects too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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