CrossXpollinatioN: Grand Yarn Adventure with MJ Mucklestone

COPACC presents: Stitch Your Secrets with Michelle Mischkulnig

COPACC presents: CrossXpollinatioN's WAM (Wearable Art Market)

Are you a maker and creator? 

Apply now for a stall at WAM 2024!

See below the application and some more information for (prospective) stallholders.

WAM-2024-INFORMATION-FOR-STALL-HOLDERS.pdf(PDF, 338KB)

Applications close Friday, 31 May 2024.

Visual Artist Meaghan Shelton engages her trans disciplinary practice to address the ineffable aspects of female experience through the lens of traditional craft practice. Based in the Surf Coast Shire of Victoria, the artist draws from her own story, a fourth generation Irish- Scottish/ Anglo, Australian woman.

Relying on the evocation of memory within domestic spaces, her exploration of the craft/ fine art nexus challenges the connection between historical marginalization of art made by women and its hierarchical valuing of materiality.

Currently undertaking her Doctorate studies with Queensland University of Technology, Meaghan was the recipient of the Surf Coast Shire Covid Recovery Grant in 2021. Working alongside Lorne Community Connect she piloted and developed the new Lorne Artist in Residence program. Meaghan is currently working on her creative practice whilst writing her thesis amongst other projects including her upcoming curatorial role for Lorne Community Connect’s Easter photographic exhibition.

Michelle has been a textile artist for ever, colour and texture surround us in all we do, they are the essence of her textile art works.

She has taught and exhibited in Australia and internationally. Her textiles creations become art works that she currently sells through Seaview Gallery in Queenscliff.

Michelle has entered and won many prizes in art shows in the past but now purely enjoys a full creative life of designing and making whenever and whatever her heart desires - this includes wall art and art garments.

Michelle has also produced a lovely table top book full of her art images and words to explain how she sees the world.

Michelle loves teaching as she believe the skills she has acquired, being completely self taught should be shared and built upon by students. She feels it is important that as an artist she shares her creativity in hope that these skills can continually evolve and can inspire those that follow this journey.

Michelle's textile art works are not an actual depiction but rather places she has visited or wishes to visit, gardens she loves and wishes to discover, places of the heart and the joy of life.

Irene Pagram's art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past, and our surroundings.

She is particularly interested in women's work, and in the environment. From India Flint she learnt to re-love natural dyes which she had experimented with many years earlier but abandoned for its dun-coloured sameness or use of toxic metal mordants to achieve brighter colours, often with copious amount of salt used as fixative.

Eco-dyeing repurposed fabrics with a renewable resources such as gum leaves or use of weed species and vegetable scraps, with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with her efforts to live in as sustainable way as possible.

Who can enter and how do I enter?

Any individual or groups of artists can enter their artwork(s) via the entry form (to be released at a later date).

Please note:

• all entries must be submitted online
• 1 entry form per artwork
• Multiple artworks by the same artist/group will require multiple entry forms
  

What can I enter?

Criteria 1: Artworks that show a large proportion of fibre or textile in their composition.
Criteria 2: Excellence and/or innovation in fibre and/or textile technique.
Criteria 3: The development of the ‘Secrets’ theme as evidenced in the artist statement, and its articulation in the artwork.

All entries are to be 3D in nature and will be displayed in the 'black box' theatre in the Civic Hall at COPACC.
The exhibition is lit with dramatic theatre lighting effects to enhance the artworks.
The space is ideal for larger 3D artworks (up to 4m x 4m).

Please note: All judging will be based on the photographs submitted. 

How much is the entry fee?

The entry fee is $25 per artwork and is non refundable.

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF ENTRY TO COPACC'S CROSSXPOLLINATION EXHIBITION:

1. Entries are open to all artists working in fibre and textiles.

2. Artists are encouraged to "cross-pollinate" and collaborate on a work of art.

3. Entries must be the artist/artists' original artwork.

4. All artwork should include an Artists Statement.

5. All entries must be submitted by the due date and include all entry requirements (see key dates). Transport to and from the exhibition is the sole responsibility of the artists and it is recommended that the artists obtain their own insurance.

6. Confirmation of entry will be via email to entrants once the application is received.

7. Artists will be notified if their work has been selected for exhibition.

8. Work accepted for exhibition must be delivered and unsold work collected, on the dates specified unless prior arrangements have been negotiated. (See key dates).

9. Payments for artwork sold will be paid to COPACC. A commission of 33% applies to all works. The artist will be paid the balance after commission is deducted. Artists should factor this into their sale price.

10. All entries must be ready for display with a securely attached label indicating the artist’s name, title of work, price and a contact number.
Please contact us if there are any special requirements for the display of the work.

11. COPACC reserve the right to select from submitted works and to exclude any works from the exhibition considered unsuitable or unsafe to display, that do not meet the required standard for display or do not meet the terms and conditions of entry.

12. Insurance of work is the responsibility of the Artist. Whilst all reasonable care will be taken with the handling of artwork neither COPACC staff nor volunteers will be responsible for any loss or damage to artwork for the duration of this exhibition.

13. Artists whose artwork is selected for exhibition must have public liability insurance. If you do not have this, we can provide it at no charge upon completion of a public liability registration form available from COPACC (COPACC exhibition only).

14. Artwork must have been created within the last two (2) years.

15. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

16. All artworks must remain in the exhibition space until 4pm on the final day of the exhibition (see keydates).

17. Information regarding the opening of the exhibitions at COPACC will be available on the website and circulated to artists during May 2024. The Awards will be announced and presented at these events. The winners of the People’s Choice Awards will be notified at the conclusion of the exhibition.

18. COPACC reserves the right to use photographs of artwork for publicity, advertising and promotional purposes.

19. All Artists who are successful in being part of CrossXpollinatioN 2024 are required (where possible) to volunteer at the Exhibition front desk of the exhibition.