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Transforming The Garden Into Artworks

Pine needles, sweet corn, orchard prunings, feathers and alpaca hair are just some of the materials that Gippsland artist Meg Viney has used in her current exhibition,

By Latrobe City - 6th February 2012 - Back to News

Vessels for Containment, on show at the International Power Hazelwood Community Access Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery.

Latrobe City’s arts director, Julie Adams, said that Ms Viney sourced the materials for her work from her immediate surroundings and used traditional paper making and felting techniques to create vessels and figures.

"This method of collecting and physically working with the materials: cutting, boiling, pulping and moulding, is integral to her work as it is a transformative process.

"The objects in this exhibition are developed from Meg’s strong belief that all living entities emerge from a vessel which has held and nurtured the gestating form from conception to emergence. These forms are suggestive of the physical, emotional and spiritual development of life and the necessary continuing change and transformation that occurs," Ms Adams said.

"Ms Viney studied fine art in the USA and as a consequence is also very interested in native American culture and practice, in particular, the function of sipapu, which is an underground dwelling. It is believed that descent into this dwelling is representative of a person’s transition from the physical to the spiritual world," Ms Adams concluded.

Vessels for Containment is on exhibition until 19 February. Entry to the gallery is free.

Photo: Meg Viney, ‘Vessel for Shamanic Journeying’, Alpaca felt, paper-red hot poker. Collection Karen Murphy.

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