Prue Mansfield

Underpinnings, 2020

Topographical map, photographic print of grandmother's tablecloth, commercial and hand dyed fabric, thread, vegetable dyes, acrylic paint, dressmaking pins,

180 x 230 x 7cm

 

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foundation clerestory

skeleton breath

scaffold create

buttress wing

root spirit

fortify amplify

truss untether

strengthen soften

substance imagination

 

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Prue Mansfield expresses her artistic voice through manipulating textile, fibre and thread, often found, into works where the layering is significant in both meaning and method. This is her right of reply to being shaped by social structures and the physical world. The reclaiming of women’s skills and work is prominent, referencing the transformation of her own traditional domestic sewing skills.

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Thanks to Lee-Anne Pumpa, whose ‘accidental’ yellow and pink marks below the work set the scene...

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IMAGES | Courtesy of the artist