Artwork: Bogong Moth: Single Glove (2020) and Cabbage Moth: Single Glove (2020)
Artist: Sharon Peoples
Medium: machine embroidery, cotton, rayon polyester thread
Dimensions: each 40 x 15 x 3cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2021
Asset no: OLA002609
About the Work
These 2 works came out of the Craft ACT Residency Sharon Peoples undertook in Namadgi National Park in 2020. In the catalogue for the resulting exhibition Between earth and sky (2021) at Craft ACT, she wrote about birds feasting on Cabbage moths and her immersion in the sounds of nature, especially the bird song, in the valley where Ready-cut Cottage is sited, near the Gudgenby River.
‘The cottage, surrounded by a wire fence, is a boundary where we watch snakes pass through, birds fly over, seeds blow across on the wind. A territorial Willie wagtail sits upon the fence, using its vantage point to call from and to catch insects.’