Narrative artist Sarah Fishburn creates image and quotation whilst Imants Tillers
Australian history.
Textile artist Val Jackson makes garments childhood and youth.
Sculptor Jaume Plensa is inspired by
Investigate relevant sources and produce your own work, in any appropriate media, based on one of the following:
Either
A) A poem, quotation or lyric
Or
B) A story, legend or fable
‘Narrative artist Sarah Fishburn creates mixed media graphic illustration combining image and quotation’
Sarah Fishburn is an internationally recognised artist, who describes her work as
Mixed-Media Narrative.
It is recognized for its unexpected yet elegant combinations of bright colors, photographic images, spray paint, transparencies, and words.
‘Imants Tillers uses words and images to tell the story of
Australian history.’
As one of Australia's most significant artists, Tillers has been at the forefront of contemporary art for over three decades. Tillers explores themes of contemporary culture, from the political debates of the 1980s, to the effects of migration, displacement and diaspora.
Most recently, his paintings have been concerned with place, locality and evocations of the landscape.
‘Textile artist Val Jackson makes garments embroidered with stories from her childhood and youth.’
Val Jackson uses both collage and fabric to explore stories of the Mersey and the people and ships that have passed down it over the years, writing its history as it writes theirs.
She includes text both to tell the stories and feature as part of the visual whole.
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Sculptor Jaume Plensa is inspired by literature
.’
Over the past 25 years Jaume
Plensa has produced work in the studio and the public realm. By combining conventional sculptural materials (glass, steel, bronze, aluminum) with more unconventional media
(water, light, sound, video), and frequently incorporating text. He has begun to use paper as his primary source of sculpting material.
Stories woven into new forms
Text portraits
Work into memories
Typography
Diary extracts
Cover
Stories Tom
Phillips
Art and Words rip
Stitch Fairytale
Books
Wordle
Fold Non fiction