2011 Gallery
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Raggedy Black Heart
Raggedy Black Heart detail a
Raggedy Black Heart detail b
Raggedy Black Heart detail c
Raggedy Black Heart
Cotton, rayon, silk, velvet, hand dyed, hand painted, machine and hand embroidery, woven boro, 24×23″
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Contextural “Have Work, Will Travel” exhibition Oct 3-Dec 30/11 Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Ledge Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
“Ecolloquy”: 3×3″, ecoprinted, hand embroidered, cotton and silk, beads, stones, sticks
#2 and #1
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Artist Statement
As textile artists, we connect and are connected to communities larger than our Selves, or our immediate environs. We encapsulate culture, technique, history and innovation every time we touch cloth.
arlee barr uses ecoprints, natural dyes and hand stitch to bridge early world textile practices and contemporary form. As each imprint of leaf, dye bath and stitch is added, the marking of time and labour create both temporal and chronological narratives. The intrinsic nature of indigenous plant material and personal variations in hand-work direct the story, but leave much open to interpretation.
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Contextural residency show “Collaboration” , 371 Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, August 25-Sept12/11
Foreground work by Anne Fetterly, wall pieces by Anna Maria Zatko
“Padded Cell: Boro’d Time” arlee barr
Naturally dyed threads and fabrics, ecoprinted fabrics, hand and machine stitch.Collaborating with Nature means giving up some control of design. Chance and accidents result in organic graffiti that the artist can only enhance, not claim.
An obsessive embroiderer, locked in her own mind, stitches her myopic and isolated view of time and sanity in daily recordings of hope and despair. A sampler, a diary, a medical chart, nature and personal tempo elicit responses to her internal and external wanderings, with thread and needle marking each day.
Accepted into DaDe Gallery FABRICation show May 2012 Calgary Alberta
Padded Cell: Boro’d Time
Padded Cell: Boro’d Time
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Self Portrait: Sad
Land Spine detail
Land Spine
Mirror Mirror, ecoprint on cotton, 23×24
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EXQUISITE 14×19″/Eco-printed eucalyptus, rose leaf, nettle leaf, iron on cotton
detail 1
Deb
March 4, 2011 at 6:12 am
the more I look at these the more I think “alien hides”
arlee
March 4, 2011 at 7:45 am
oh hadn’t thought of that Deb—a new area to explore
Kadira
March 15, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I worked in fabric a few years ago – hand dyed silk- rayon velvets with metallic prints – after Fortuny. I think your prints are beautiful – to me they suggest fragile insects with beautiful delicate wings
arlee
March 26, 2011 at 10:21 am
Thank you Kadira
Ah, Fortuny…….
deemallon
April 2, 2011 at 1:35 pm
gorgeous.
abercrombie fitch fierce
June 13, 2011 at 9:48 am
I like it very much!
Kelli Brevick
July 10, 2011 at 11:58 am
In your self portrait piece here, is there any machine stitching?
It’s a beautiful piece!
arlee
July 10, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Kelli, most of it is hand stitch; I used a bit of machine to hold things down, and accent a few areas, but the majority of that gets covered by hand as well.
t
April 2, 2013 at 5:29 pm
Some absolutely amazing art works here arlee.
I particularly like the vibrant red in the Raggedy Black Heart.
And the three dimensional properties of Ecolloquy.
But really I love it all
Good luck with your exhibition
It looks like a success already.
xt