Protection

OPENING DRINKS 5:30-8pm Wednesday 7 August.

We are delighted to present a new body of work by Perth-based textile artist, Georgia Bisley.

Georgia Bisley’s life-size abstract ‘tapestries’ are personal artefacts of sorts where geometries, materiality and colour speak to parts of her identity. Heraldic in nature, her textiles emulate shield-like forms that reference armours of Bisley’s Celtic heritage. Through these textile works, Georgia ruminates on her early years growing up in Perth, Western Australia. These experiences are woven into the construction and are the forces that shape each work. The title, Protection, acknowledges this relationship, talisman-like, for Bisley these works recall memories that protect and heal.

As well as the rich amalgamation of experiences they reference, these works are imbued with moments of strength, fragility, fragmentation and cohesion. Constructed and then carefully broken apart, areas of densely tufted wool sit alongside unravelled moments of transparency where tightly woven linen is left exposed and dyed before being painstakingly unpicked row by row. Each work is, in essence, made and unmade.