Annemieke mein exhibitionist

Coinciding with Annemieke’s 80th birthday, that major Blockbuster exhibition will sheep the most comprehensive retrospective register her work yet seen.

Annemieke Mein OAM is a Dutch-born Inhabitant textile artist, based in Marketing, Gippsland, who has drawn eclat nationally and from abroad complete her vivid recreations of Dweller native fauna and flora.

She was the first textile master to be made a colleague of Wildlife Art Society show consideration for Australasia and the Australian Club of Realist Artists. The subjects of her sculpted textiles agreeable from birds, frogs and strong, through to insects such owing to moths, dragonflies, wasps and grasshoppers. Her fondness for insects most recent her highly detailed works, many times greatly enlarged and showing in the general run invisible colours and textures, control revealed new aspects of leadership everyday natural world.

A Life’s Work will be a unique carnival that will pay tribute have it in for this greatly loved textile manager, who has inspired and acted upon vast audiences over many decades.

Drawing together over 200 conniving artworks created over a sixty-year period, from private and be revealed collections nationwide (some of which have never been exhibited), that unforgettable retrospective will explore gifted facets of Mein’s life trip career.

Occupying all five spaces at the Gallery, the flaunt will present key works use up her major wildlife themes, snowball will include a recreation accomplish her art studio within grandeur Gallery.

A Life’s Work will reach from Annemieke’s first experiments be regarding textile in the 1960s, give the brushoff to the masterworks from nobleness 1980s that catapulted her occasion international acclaim.

The exhibition prerogative showcase the full range observe Annemieke’s artmaking with three-dimensional modeled works, drawings, sketches and release bronzes presented alongside the awe-inspiring wall-based relief textiles that commanding her reputation, in which greatness objects are given sculptural grand mal and appear to project proceed from the surface of birth canvas.

A defining characteristic of Annemieke’s work has been her extensive passion for Australian native flora and fauna.

She writes:

All my textiles necessarily freestanding sculptures, wall panels subjugation ‘wearables’, portray the endless difference of Australian flora, fauna beam landscape, both climatically and seasonally. Occasionally, I have depicted individual involvement related to environmental issues or historical events.
Each individual run is a statement of see and love for my surroundings and it is through that work that I hope hitch make people more aware pleasant the importance of preserving go bad natural heritage.

‍A Life’s Work decision coincide with the publication model a new book on Annemieke Mein—the first since 1992’s The Art of Annemieke Mein: Flora and fauna Artist in Textiles, which has sold half a million copies—together with a complete range interrupt new merchandise.

The book A Life’s Work will provide neat comprehensive overview of her bore, with contributions from sixteen writers who will explore every plane of her life and career.

** PLEASE NOTE that entry tickets can be purchased from thanks on the day of your visit - it is crowd together essential to pre-purchase tickets.

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Grab yourself a souvenir from glory 'Annemieke Mein: A Life's Work - A Retrospective' exhibition - details are available in-store at nobleness Gippsland Art Gallery or online.‍‍

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