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Installation and 2 minute animation loop by Faye Wilson 2020 for Black & Blue 2 at BMCC gallery Katoomba. The animation was mapped and projected over three antique christening gowns featuring early colonial subdivision plans, maps and etchings of the Blue Mountains NSW. The gowns were loaned by Mount Victoria Museum for the duration of the exhibition and are on permanent exhibition at the museum. The projection / installation was accompanied by a poem titled "The cartographer's Wife" by Emma Brazil in an A1 Giclee print with typography by Judith Martinez Estrada. Special thanks to Cindi Drennan from Illuminart for mapping the video and setting up the projection.

Gallery notes on the work from Faye Wilson:

The subjugation, carving up and selling off the Blue Mountains by Europeans is charted in the history and early maps of the area. While it was men’s work to survey and draw maps, many women sewed for their families for up to 20 hours a week. Women of means might have had access to dressmakers services, yet still sewed for pleasure rather than necessity. Many middle class women were still required to do the lion’s share of sewing required for their family. Men were not free from the yoke of class and responsibility either and those with a leaning toward artistry were often confined to expressing this in occupations and professions that utilised latent talents.

An examination of early colonial maps evidence delicate, nuanced line work that accompanies the measured, practical aspects of the draftsmanship. Sewing, surveying and cartography share much common ground and both involve surveying, drafting and cutting or sectioning. Line work can be compared to stitchery. Sewing also requires the engineering of fabrics in varying degrees of complexity that are often overlooked by the uninformed.

Statistics reveal that art as a profession remains very much the domain of the middle and upper classes today and though technology relieves many of us of tasks that require such highly refined skills, it is perhaps worth considering that opportunities to express artistry though manual labor also diminishes.

Artwork Grimley’s subdivision by Faye Wilson.
Animated /3d projection( see notes right)
Poem The Cartographer’s Wife by Emma Brazil
Dinkus Faye Wilson

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