Jill Miglietti + Nicci Rossel
Remnant | Repair
25 September - 6 October 2024
G2
Opening Night
Friday 27 September | 6 - 8pm
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Jill Miglietti
Artmaking for Jill Miglietti reflects her connection with the external and internal environment and how they continually shape and inform each other.
Remnants from the artist’s own lived experience reside in the materials used for this body of work. Each tooling box and length of copper comes from machines that have run for hundreds of thousands of hours, sustaining a family business for two generations; each found object, ceramic and piece of cloth is the result of a lifetime of making and collecting.
Together, they combine to soften the blow of obsolescence, the reality of time and technology. Transition in life is mirrored in the repair and re-framing of what remains, honouring histories while allowing their passing and making space for the present and future.
The very terms of existence of these materials, and their remnant status, have become the impetus for change, and the vehicle by which the journey of personal transformation is being navigated.
Jill Miglietti Bio
Using an array of fibre and textile techniques, Jill Miglietti constructs two- and three-dimensional artworks that portray her responses to the physical, external world and her inner, emotional being. Her work expands ideas about memory, identity and the passing of time. By manipulating materials and forms into embodied narratives that feel instinctive and familiar, Miglietti seeks to capture that moment when matter and being collide to form an experience and memory unique to that time and place.
With work in public and private collections, Miglietti has been exhibiting since completing a Diploma in Textile Art in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Australian and international publications.
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Nicci Rossel
The use of old, damaged, and worn cloth informs Nicci Rossel’s textile practice and refers directly to daily life and cloth’s intimate connection to the body. Rossel’s particular interest is in using reclaimed remnants of cloth and threads – particularly old linens, cottons and wool and incorporating threads from the discarded collections of others. These materials which are no longer hold significance to others and are cast away, working with these lost materials to bring life to the abandoned fragments.
Each day we encounter life’s challenges and difficulties. Some are small which we can turn away from, others are larger and harder to dismiss. How do we gather these threads of distress and despair and repair the rents within ourselves?
Rossel’s pieces give voice to these experiences through working on remnants of worn cloth that have been repaired. In places, the cloth has become fragile and requires small hidden stitches to hold the fragments together; in other places, the repair is more obvious in its attempt to rework the damage.
By incorporating stitches within the imperfections of old cloth it becomes altered through the process of remaking. These items that once held importance to others at some point in time become overlayed with unconscious memories, feelings, and experiences which emerge through stitch and finding new directions as the work progresses.
Rossel is particularly interested in the internal experience of the maker. What is happening on a deeper internal level during the process of creating? Each piece represents internal pathways, and the psychic threads used for repairing the experiences of daily life.
That which is occurring internally is brought out into the light and expressed with care and contemplation, seeking to make sense of what has transpired.
Through the repair and alteration of these remnants of domestic life, using simple, unplanned stitches, life’s challenges are reworked, repaired, and remade.
Nicci Rossel Bio
Exploring the idea of internal psychic repair, Nicci Rossel’s work generates the renewal of discarded, forgotten, lost remnants of cloth and threads which form the basis of her art practise. In this process, Rossel often uses old clothing, sheets, tablecloths, and threads while incorporating an unplanned flow of stitches.
These forgotten cloth and threads create another level in Rossel’s stitching as she works with items that have held importance to someone at some point in time. This provides Rossel with “a space in which to return to self and gather the threads of my own being”. She describes her work as “finding internal pathways that I meander along while gathering the threads of self and reworking what needs to be repaired”. Rossel’s work is often spontaneous, and her work includes rust marking eco-dyeing with plant materials while incorporating the marks of time on the cloth with some form of colour and then stitches.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
