A piece for sale in the Pop-Up Shop at the Capricornia Printmakers at the moment. Pop into the Walter Reid Centre in East Street Rockhampton to see it in person. It takes inspiration from the purple of iron tannate from small pieces of eco-dyed fabric and paper. Moonlight Sonata, 2025. Silk, cotton threads on painted … More Slow Stitch Work at the Pop-Up Shop
Mixed media. Screen printing and polyester machine stitch on Fabriano “Black Black”, 300gsm. Part of my ongoing series, Gravitas, exploring planetary wide forces affecting our environment, society and politics exhibited at the Capricornia Printmakers Inc 13th Annual Exhibition. 4-13 October 2024 | Two Words | 13th Annual Exhibition | Walter Reid Cultural Centre Each artist’s … More Sphere Topography
Join me on 9am, April 5 at the Emu Park Art Gallery for a 3-hour workshop introducing artistic stitching on paper. Make a paper postcard using embroidery stitches to render life-like corals, shells and sea weed. We will focus on simple feather stitch coral and a collaged scallop or feather stitched nautilus during our … More Postcards from the Sea
A 5″ x 5″ artist book, Wormholes (part of my Gravitas series), that will be for sale at Capricornia Printmakers Unfolding Stories exhibition next week at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre in Rockhampton on the 14 -19 February. There were a few technical challenges to figure out to get the tension.
This project was a wonderful opportunity spearheaded by our local regional gallery, Rockhampton Museum of Art, involving responding to one of the works in their extensive collection. Twenty Capricornia Printmakers members participated in RMOA’s 2023 Artist in Residence program responding to 17 items from the RMOA collection (prints, paintings, ceramics, etc.). The exhibition was held … More Unfolding
Hard to believe that I haven’t written here since last December! So much has happened this year, so let me document a few highlights. The RMOA project with Capricorn Printmakers was a huge success! I’ll write an entire another post with pages from my journal showing the genesis of my piece. The final work was … More 2024 Update
Spending the weekend getting ready for an exhibition for the Capricornia Printmakers. The theme this year is Viva Magenta (the name of the Pantone colour of the year). I’m continuing with my Gravitas series with the pieces. This one is inspired by the moon and the tides, and is part of a diptych. The second … More Magenta Tide
Continuing work on the Gravitas series. I am enjoying focussing on this series. Each piece takes several days as I plan, paint and wait for parts to dry, stich; and they are at least twice the size of a postcard. I am not worried that I am not finishing a piece every day. After all, … More 22 & 23 April, 2022
Kathryn Kerr 