Exhibition 'Green' Collins Gallery, Glasgow October 2006

Press for HOME 'Jeanette Sendler' in Gothic Script

Exhibition:

'Green'

Collins Gallery , University of Strathclyde, 22 Richmond St, Glasgow 30 sept – 11 nov 2006-11-09

In October 2006 Edinburgh based 'DesignEd' were commissioned to form an exhibition. Recycling is the core theme.

Book cover of 'Green' by Design-Ed. ISBN: 0 947649 573

The 11 artists were encouraged to work with each other to cross fertilise & come up with art using wholly recycled materials. Green : design-ED

A 48 page book & DVD are avaliable from the gallery.
DVD £15.95.

Jeanette's entry 'Frozen in time'....had two main parts.

part 1

As a former costume designer / ladies tailor, Jeanette now finds herself not constructing garments, but fragmenting them.

In this collection ‘Frozen in Time’ she decided to concentrate on basic elements such as threads and fasteners.

In order to honour this unique and personal collection of haberdashery Jeanette incorporates a new medium to her & has made the original card backing to new thread out of glass to bring new light into a forgotten sewing box.

Pair of frosted Ice Scissors. Actually made of cast glass

2D glass figures & forties dress design ads

There is a whole industry connected to these with a rich history with old button / thread cards appearing regularly at the bottoms of draws in neglected chests.

Line of glass thread cards, looking like molten metal, receding into distance

Clear glass thread card ‘bones’. Suggested thread lines etched in the glass. 3 wrapped in blue ribbon.

In the days of their creation, there was a strong imperative to recycle. Basic cardboard scraps and paper would be reused to contain and organise remnants, ends of threads, buttons and other precious bits and bobs. Once out of date or out of favour, these remnants turn into collections with no more than sentimental value.

Glass thread card. Suggested lines of the thread etched into the glass

Relics of the past: Real old fashioned button & thread cards mixed with white glass artistic interpretations in foreground.

part 2: Tree Skins - true recycling

Rescued from the compost heap for this exhibition & truly in the recycling theme, Jeanette exhibited her Tree Skins for a third time. Originally clothing the trees of the Hillier Arboretum in Hampshire for a year in 2002 & again, a little more decomposed inside the Royal Beatrice Gallery.