Artwork: Climate Grief Hanky Project 2020
Artist: Karyn Fearnside
Other participating artists: Steven Blair, Lisa Bristow, Deborah Faeyrglenn, Judith, Kaz Leary, Bev Moxon, Debbie Paton, Caren Wilford, and the Wagga Wagga Workshop.
Medium: 5 minute video: stitched handkerchiefs translated into video using a textile simulator in collaboration with 3D digital expert Duncan Bean (Architectural Visualisation Artist)
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2020
Asset no: OLA002606
About the Work
In 2020, the Canberra region was bombarded with bushfires, smoke, giant hailstones and floods, all of which has had catastrophic effects on Australian native wildlife. The Climate Grief Hanky Project comprises an ever-growing number of eucalyptus leaf, eco-dyed handkerchiefs featuring images of Australian native wildlife species created using thread. Using handkerchiefs as a metaphor for grief, fellow artists and participants in the Wagga Wagga Workshop were asked to sew the likeness of an Australian animal onto a handkerchief with black thread.