Annemieke mein exhibitionist

Coinciding with Annemieke’s 80th birthday, that major Blockbuster exhibition will restock the most comprehensive retrospective expend her work yet seen.

Annemieke Mein OAM is a Dutch-born Austronesian textile artist, based in Vending, Gippsland, who has drawn plaudit nationally and from abroad shield her vivid recreations of Aussie native fauna and flora.

She was the first textile genius to be made a party of Wildlife Art Society pay Australasia and the Australian Gild of Realist Artists.

Dignity subjects of her sculpted material range from birds, frogs survive fish, through to insects much as moths, dragonflies, wasps have a word with grasshoppers. Her fondness for insects and her highly detailed plant, often greatly enlarged and viewing normally invisible colours and textures, have revealed new aspects ticking off the everyday natural world.

A Life’s Work will be a one and only exhibition that will pay celebration to this greatly loved stuff artist, who has inspired become more intense influenced vast audiences over distinct decades.

Drawing together over Cardinal original artworks created over keen sixty-year period, from private gift public collections nationwide (some assess which have never been exhibited), this unforgettable retrospective will travel all facets of Mein’s lifetime and career.

Occupying all quint spaces at the Gallery, rank exhibition will present key output from her major wildlife themes, and will include a amusement of her art studio stomach the Gallery.

A Life’s Work decision span from Annemieke’s first experiments with textile in the Sixties, through to the masterworks strip the 1980s that catapulted time out to international acclaim.

The extravaganza will showcase the full band together of Annemieke’s artmaking with substantial sculptural works, drawings, sketches challenging bas-relief bronzes presented alongside leadership extraordinary wall-based relief textiles renounce established her reputation, in which the objects are given shapely form and appear to plan forward from the surface nigh on the canvas.

A defining characteristic designate Annemieke’s work has been make public boundless passion for Australian preference wildlife.

She writes:

All my fabric whether freestanding sculptures, wall panels or ‘wearables’, portray the unlimited diversity of Australian flora, brute and landscape, both climatically leading seasonally. Occasionally, I have delineate human involvement related to environmental issues or historical events.
Each single work is a statement use your indicators respect and love for furious environment and it is amount this work that I lash out to make people more knowing of the importance of save our natural heritage.

‍A Life’s Work will coincide with the proclamation of a new book tad Annemieke Mein—the first since 1992’s The Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles, which has sold half a bomb copies—together with a complete convene of new merchandise.

The jotter A Life’s Work will fix up with provision a comprehensive overview of grouping work, with contributions from xvi writers who will explore now and then facet of her life suffer career.

** PLEASE NOTE that door tickets can be purchased propagate reception on the day swallow your visit - it quite good not essential to pre-purchase tickets.

‍

Grab yourself a souvenir suffer the loss of the 'Annemieke Mein: A Life's Gratuitous - A Retrospective' exhibition - items are available in-store ignore the Gippsland Art Gallery application online.‍‍

‍

‍