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Artwork
Artist Statement: Annie Trevillian's studio practice includes drawing, design, relief printing, experimentation with Adobe Photoshop computer aided design and production of handprinted fabrics. I also lecture to undergraduate and post-graduate visual art students in the areas of screenprinting on fabric which includes artwork design and layout, colour separations, stencil preparation, colour mixing and matching, registration and printing; design techniques and processes for surface design applications on fabrics; computer aided design, concept development and studio theory. I am an active long-term committee member of Megalo Access Arts - Canberra's only access fabric and paper screenprint workshop and studio which caters for hand practitioners. Since 1994 Jill Pettifer (Lecturer Textiles Workshop Canberra School of Art) and I have been researching the application of safe chemical treatments of fabrics for innovative contemporary Australian Textiles. In 1997 the manual "Bleach, Buckle and Burn. Chemical Treatments of Fabrics." was published. In June 1997 Jill and I participated in "Material Culture"- the USA Surface Design Conference and workshops in which we were able to look at techniques and new developments in the innovative use of these processes by experimentation. My fabric lengths for the 1996 "Hand to Cloth" exhibition held at the Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia were the starting point of utilising the technical experience and expertise developed in the research project . Details from this body of work are provided as slides. My starting point for the fabrics are wall vases which I have collected or borrowed, then drawn, photographed, scanned and manipulated on the computer. Their obvious reference to shell shapes and forms is noted. I like the wall vases as objects rather than functional practical containers in which to stick a bunch of flowers. They are Australian ceramics from the forties and fifties with a limited colour range available in the glazes. They place my work in a certain era where a wall vase made such practical sense. It could not be knocked over by boisterous kids, unlike a vase of flowers sitting on a table just asking to be rearranged. I am attracted to the idea of working all the way through processes such as designing (using the computer as well as traditional techniques) and screen printing fabrics, then rescanning the finished fabrics to evolve new ideas and ways of working which are continually spiralling. For Megalo Access Arts exhibition "Putting it in Print" which will be part of the Textiles Symposium in Canberra in July 1998 I would like to continue this process with a new theme. I have been exploring the ideas of identity, being a twin and ageing which resulted in the dye sublimation prints exhibited at aGOG Gallery, Canberra ACT Australia in July 1997. I incorporated this imagery into my swanky hankies which was a combination of dyed and discharge printed cotton hankies with heat transfers. "Swankies Hankies" will tour in Australia to to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra during 1998 . Curriculum Vitae |
