Year 9 Textiles
This year the Textile Educators Association ran a competition under the title ‘Textile Arts Piece Challenge’ with the theme for 2021 being ‘Journey’.
Year 9 Textile student Georgia Bath embraced the idea of furthering her textiles skills and enthusiastically participated in the competition.
Stage 5 students were given the design brief…
‘Design and produce a textile art piece that takes the viewer on a ‘journey’. The completed textile art piece will reflect your inspiration and creativity, and demonstrate your competence in textile construction and surface decoration. Your design should demonstrate a variety of textile construction, fabric manipulation, colouration and/or embellishment techniques. A minimum of 75% of the selected materials must be textiles.’
Georgia’s work is Titled ‘La Ragazza di Lipari (The Girl From Lipari)’ and includes the following explanation of her inspiration…
‘In 2019 my family travelled to Lipari, a small Italian island in the Mediterranean. My inspiration came from learning about my great grandmother Santina Loricco, who at 17 travelled a distance of 15,691kms, from Lipari to Melbourne, to seek new and better opportunities in Australia. I imagined the concerns and sadness of a young teenager travelling by herself to a foreign country. I thought that she may have kept a diary and written down her fears during the adventure. My project is a visual testimony to her courageous and brave journey.’
Submissions and judging take place during September, however we already know that Georgia’s work is amazing and we are incredibly proud of her attention to detail and dedication to telling her great grandmother’s story in such a beautiful project.
Textiles Teacher