The Golden Sun Moth is a strong name for a tiny endangered grasslands moth found, among other rapidly-shrinking areas, near my hometown of Dunkeld in Victoria, Australia.
I am a member of the Off the Rails artist-run gallery (see www.offtherailsgallery.blogspot.com) and we are involved with an artistic venture to highlight the situation facing this tiny moth by involving the whole community -there are about 450 people living in Dunkeld - in a learning-though-art exhibition at the 2009 Dunkeld Mosaic of Arts festival in November with an ongoing major project culminating at the following festival in March 2011.
I am a tapestry weaver and I'm using my blogspot to detail the process of my art from conception to finished project.
Today is the first day of the rest of the project.
More later . . .
Grampians Magic
I wove this tapestry to describe the beauty of the Grampians National Park bushland which is adjacent to my town.
About Me
- jan leishman
- Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia
- I am a tapestry weaver with a tiny studio behind my home, one big loom, three medium-sized ones and a tiny, portable loom. I am a founding artist with the Off the Rails artist-run gallery located in the former Dunkeld railway station. I have a passion for wool as a fibre, but am not averse to using anything in my work - material strips, metal threads, paper, anything that can be manipulated between the warp threads and beaten into place! As the slogan goes, 'you've got to be warped to weave'. I have shown my work in various exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand and have work in private collections in both countries. I love colour and shape and quirkiness, while also having a great respect for the history and tradition of tapestry weaving.
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