New Painting - Weeping Woman

I haven't painted for ages and it probably shows. This is a new stitched painting - currently in the Unit 9 Gallery group show till the 26th August.

Burnett & Catt - Bradford Lord Mayors Parade

Bradford Lord Mayors carnival parade

music costume

music float

Tea & cakes float

Madame Flotsam recycled costume

Tea Djinn & float

The Love, Dance, Art, Friendship Float

Some of our costumes.

The Tea Djinn

Jackie from Q20 Theatre in the paintbrush gown

We've (Burnett & Catt) made floats and costumes for the Bradford Lord Mayors Parade for the last 3 years. This years parade was in June - photos by fantastic Bradford based photographer Tim Smith, please see his website at the link below - there's some really stunning work there.

http://www.timsmithphotos.com/site.html

Ship of Fools - new work for exhibition

This is my piece for the 'ship of fools, ship of hope' exhibition at Yarra Sculpture galley in Australia. Artists were sent a simple plastic boat in kit form and asked to respond to the theme (see previous post for details of the exhibition). Mine is a military camoflage textile boat, the sail is stitched from sections of military safety slide film found on a skip.

Ship of Fools - exhibition

ship of fools
ship of hope
one world

curated by Julie Collins
Trish Semple - Northern Ireland
Roxanne Brousseau-Felio - Canada
Michael Markham - Canada
Marsha Pels, - USA
Yvonne Kendall - Germany (ex Australia)
Cliff Burtt - Washington, USA
(ex Austraila)
John Kelly, Ireland (ex Australia)
Julie Collins - Australia
Derek John - Australia
Lea Tomson - Estonia
Frederic Boulleaux - France
Martine Kaczynski - USA
Jack Fisher - USA
Shana Kohnstamm - USA
Morwenna Catt - England
Kelly Strachura - USA
Ralph Essex - England
Jessica Levy - Ireland
[OD]: Rui Aço, Fernando Vidal,
Freitas Cruz– Portugal
Pennie Steel - Australia
Anette Kristiansen, - Norway
Lucas Richard Stephens - Norway
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Sandra Minchin - Ireland
MonTana - Netherlands
Patricia Sea - Germany
Helen Masacz - England
Srdjan Markovic - Serbia
Takaki Hashimoto - Japan
Louise Gains - Wales
Elizabeth Presa - Australia
Lee Boyd - Ireland
Otto Holler Druckgrafik - Germany

OPENING WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2008 6-8PM
EXHIBITION 18 JUNE - 6 JULY 2008
YARRA SCULPTURE GALLERY
117 VERE STREET ABBOTSFORD 3067
MELWAYS REF:10K
OPENING HOURS WED-SUN 12 - 5.30
TELEPHONE 9419 6177

INFO@YARRASCULPTURESPACE.COM.AU
YARRASCULPTURESPACE.COM.AU

YARRA SCULPTURE GALLERY
Presents

SHIP OF FOOLS
SHIP OF HOPE
ONE WORLD
Gallery 1,2 & 3
35 Artists from 13 countries respond
to global warming.
Many international artists are courtesy of spreadart.net
To partake in the interactive forum during opening
email rsvp-virtual-state@8-o-8.org
Curated by Julie Collins

Burnett & Catt - Recycled Costume Commission

Burnett & Catt: Finished Recycled Costume commission. 'Powdered Wig' made of recycled knits. The dress, cuffs and fans are recycled polythene bags, sweet wrappers, soft toys and other assorted rubbish, embroidered and stitched.

Mr Tumnus Head dress For Narnia

Finished Mr Tumnus head-dress commissioned for Narnia Production.

Burnett & Catt - Head-dress for Ice Queen

A last minute commission from a Theatre Company to deliver by Sunday. Head-dresses for Narnia Ice Queen and Mr Tumnus. Tumnus isnt complete yet and Ice Queen may become a little more bejewelled tommorrow. We're sleeping on it.

Phrenology (grandma) old enough to know better

The third phrenology head from the Red Riding Hood trio - terrible photographs unfortunately, taken in bad light before I took it to New York. The three have been to Scope Art Fair now and are now on exhibit at Jack the Pelican in Brooklyn.

Fibreart review of 'Pricked'

American Textile Art magazine 'Fiberart' review of Pricked:Extreme Embroidery. Click on the image to enlarge text.

Phrenology - (Red Riding Hood) Small Enough to be Eaten

The second head in the new Phrenology series of 3 for Scope Art Fair in New York.I'm taking the heads to New York myself on Monday so now I'll have a chance to see the rest of the exhibits. Will post photos when I get back.