Animation

Primarily self taught with the assistance of my husband, I have been experimenting with incorporating stop-motion animation into my textiles work and have many plans to come with this! Unfortunately as with my textiles work this is a very labour intensive process and done over long periods of time. Stop-motion animation has become a great interest to me in the last couple of years which lead me to start the blog The Creative Haven which looks at contemporary stop-motion animation artists within Australia.

Pollo, 2008

Pollo was made in 2008 as part of the exhibition Refab curated by Mim Kelly for Craft ACT. The aim was to have the entire set and characters all made from found and recycled fabrics and objects. The animation is aimed at 2-4 year old children and is about an owl wanting to help a fellow friend.

It was created using a Canon video camera - long before we decided to invest in a digital still camera and was very much a learning process.

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Hard Days Work, 2010

Hard Days work was made at a 2 day animation workshop I completed at the Victorian College of the Arts and was really an experiment in how to move forward with using my textiles work in animation.

The fabric pieces you see in this animation were taken from my final years work The Dream Series I did at the ANU School of Art which you can see under my Textiles Portfolio.

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Blink, 2011

Another experiment animating frame by frame an eye I had machine embroidered. Each movement you see is a individual piece of fabric with the image machine embroidered onto it.

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