FIBERWORKS - A CELEBRATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN
FIBER AND TEXTILE ARTISTS

Title: Perhaps a Princess

Description: Kim's two pieces were the result of some thoughts about the lives of artists in this, and previous eras.

Artists,in all media, have much in common with the heroes of mythologies and fairy stories: they have metaphorically hacked through brambles, and plumbed the Perhaps a Princess suggests a palace, floating on water, perhaps it is an illusion. It may hold a sleeping princess as the prize at the end of a courageous journey. It may contain Bluebeard's chamber…opening doors is a risky business. The palace is at once a place of safety, and a prison; a goal, and a further challenge.

The overlays of fabric suggest the uncertainty of vision and the layers of experience in the search. The pale colours represent the ephemeral dream vision which draws the adventurer on.

Title: Klee in my hands

Description: Klee in My Hands is a tribute to Paul Klee in his exploration of colour, his simplification of form, and his gleeful pleasure in simple child-like line and detail. Small patches of colour complement and echo each other in varying harmonies. Fish-like creatures surprise each other and the plants as they explore the depths and consider moving across the spaces. It is a celebration of freedom and adventure.

As artists we hope that T S Eliot's words will become a truth for us ...And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.

Machine needle sketching, raw edge applique, machine embroidery.

Title: Okavango - flood plains

Description: As the flood waters move rapidly across the waiting dried beds, life "on the edge" changes for the river dwellers. Puddles are transformed into a sparkling, flickering tangle of water, light and vegetation. Sky becomes water, mud becomes green growth, new hiding places appear in the luminous, shifting twilight. Papyrus and shrubs criss-cross, spears point to the sun, grass heads droop to become nests protected by the barrier of reeds. New patterns of light and dark conceal and reveal

Title: Microcosm 2, Stone Wall
Mirocosm 3, Brick Wall,

Description: Both these pieces were responses to the diversity of texture, colour and botanical detail on stones and bricks. Microcosm 2 was prompted by a stone wall spattered with orange lichen. Microcosm 3 was suggested by a number of old, damp bricks in a dark corner. Mosses and exudations from the brick have produced a richly coloured surface.

Kim Tedder
26 Ash Rd
Bryanston Ext 3
Randburg
2194

Cell: 0833377650
Fax: 27(0)117901072
Phone: 27(0)11 704 1555

Email: kim.tedder@absamail.co.za