4 Jul 2024 – 28 Jul 2024
St Heliers Street Gallery
Free event
Responding to the space between art and craft, both artists use their training in textile design to create work that draws from a variety of influences such as design, painting, personal symbology and textiles.
Jess Hall
Naarm/Melbourne based, multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, embroidery and soft sculpture. Jess is trained as a painter, printmaker and textile designer — the work responds to the intersection of these disciplines, often using a descriptive drawing approach and embroidery techniques to express tactility and a love of pattern.
Jess completed first class Honours at Queensland College of Art (2005), a Master of Fine Art at VCAM (2010) and the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) with distinction (2021) at RMIT.
Jess’ work has been purchased for private and public collections and has featured in group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally, including craft biennales in South Korea and Japan and residencies in France.
Arabella Strachan
A textile artist and designer, using contemporary and traditional rug making techniques and other craft practices, combined with timber and non traditional materials. Through her work she explores repeated patterns or symbols in the landscape that replicate throughout the natural world. Arabella seeks to translate the emotional depth of these places and patterns into visually tactile forms that relate to an inner landscape of the subconscious mind.
Strachan’s background in textile design and love of pattern and embellishment, influence the composition of each work with a desire to create tactile and luxurious works that are a playful mixture of colour and touchable surface.
Arabella graduated from a Bachelor of Arts in Textile Design at RMIT in 2017, in the following years she has been exhibited twice in solo shows, the most recent in 2023 at the Queen Victoria Women’s centre gallery in Melbourne.
St Heliers Street Gallery is wheelchair accessible.
