by Lynn Price
‘Pages of a Landscape’. 2017 Paper, stitch installation.
Pages of a Landscape paper stitch installation 1
Pages of a Landscape paper stitch installation 2
Pages of a Landscape paper stitch installation 3
Pages of a Landscape paper stitch installation 4
Pages of a Landscape paper stitch installation 5
‘Fragments of a Landscape’. Paper, stitch, wax, wall-piece. The Nelson Regional Award, Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Awards 2017.
Fragments of a Landscape Detail Paper stitch wax
‘Unknown Territory’. A 25 piece, paper, stitch wax installation. The images depict ‘openings’ representing metaphorical windows into the unknown, designed to evoke a feeling reminiscent of a first encounter with somewhere unfamiliar and new. Winner of Dame Suzie Moncrieff Judges Award, Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Awards 2016.
Unknown Territory paper stitch wax 1
Unknown Territory paper stitch wax 2
Unknown Territory paper stitch wax 3
Unknown Territory paper stitch wax 4
Unknown Territory paper stitch wax 5
‘When I Think of Home’ 2015. Machine embroidery, glass, wax installation.
When I think of Home II (1)
When I think of Home II Detail (2)
When I think of Home II Detail (3)
Artist: Lynn Price
I’m an English artist, from semi-rural Derbyshire, living and working in New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. I graduated with a BA Hons degree in Ceramics and Glass in 1984 and have been apprenticed trained in Siena, Italy during 1995. Since emigrating to NZ in 2006 I have found that living with a foot in two worlds offers endless scope for creative expression. Drawing was an integral part of my art training and I frequently feel the need to express my ideas through mark-making. I work in both glass and mixed media.
Uprooting myself from my homeland, took some courage, energy and faith in the future. As an artist, the experience also makes for complex influences that, willy-nilly, manifest in one’s work.
‘the power of a place where formative experiences helped shape identity lives on, a power more remarkable since it relies not on physical presence but only the act of remembering’. John Percival, Return Migration in Later Life
From a migrant’s perspective, this quote resonates deeply for me. Through my art practice I address memory and nostalgic association with the landscape I call ‘home’, yet it references a narrative that can be read as personal or generic. I’m interested in the fact that we are able to bring associations to places and landscapes which, through memory, hold a resonance throughout our lives.
As I revisit these themes, memories ‘fine tune’, shift and idealise and I’m always surprised at how entangled I become in both the depth of the memory and the emotive response to it.
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Lynn welcomes commissions and her studio is open by appointment.
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