Threads of Life at Gateway Gallery, Lincoln Causeway, Wodonga, VIC.
29 July till 23 August 2025
This substantial work has twenty textile art panels with audio performance overlay by actor Kerryn Beatty.
Kerryn has taken Yvonne’s diary and created a poem to match the creation of the daily work over 2018 to 2019. This gives some understanding of an artist’s compulsion to create.
Opening night is Thurs 31 July 5.30 till 7.30
Over approx. one year (2018-19) Yvonne created a small textile piece based on her inspiration on each day from her found materials collection. These had been given, inherited, over a lifetime of textile art work. A lot of material from the family of Aunt’s, dance costumes and vintage off cuts and a collection of Batik materials. A daily diary was written of passing thoughts during this time.
The presentation is on 20 x panels sized from commercially available tea towels as a comment on the daily grind of most female home carers.
Yvonne Line background.
Until her permanent disability two years ago with Alzheimer’s Disease, Yvonne was a visual artist based near Campbelltown, NSW she has lived in Albury for the last two years now. Her practice spans six decades of change and experimentation.
Her multidisciplinary training and experience includes teaching, creating wearable art & dress making. Her technical skills are immaculate. She has spent her formative years doing life drawing, painting and sculpting. But she has a particular attraction to tactile materials and working with materials of all genres. She has over 2014 to 2020 worked with felting, spinning, dyeing, direct painting and printmaking on her textile art works.
Trained at the College of Fine Art in Paddington her lifes work is an eclectic mix of styles due to her continual experimentation in one-off productions since her initial training.
“The primary basis of my work is the reflection and result of human occupation on the environment and reflects my habitation of same, as well as how others treat the surrounds of this planet. I continue the use of collected and donated fabrics both from Australia and from world travels and recycle those found objects.” Yvonne Line 2021.
“For me the use of textiles is essentially a voice of housebound makers and a demonstration of the solidarity and communication by woman to woman and the female support community. The last few years (2022 – Ed) I have been extending and developing ideas into several extension works and into a textile series. This decision has satisfied the process of a subject but leaves little option for local exhibitions as they are so different from traditional works.” (This comment was made on some of her unpublished works – Ed.)
Gateway Gallery
Lincoln Causeway, Wodonga
02 6021 3073
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