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that must be painted using fabric.                                                                                                                                                        Do you travel to teach often
                                                                                                                                                                                                and what’s coming up in 2020?
      Your postcard series is beautiful! How                                                                                                                                                    I love teaching and am more
      did this come about and how do you                                                                                                                                                         than willing to travel to any
      produce the designs to teach with?                                                                                                                                                          place to which I am invited.
      I was asked by Glenys Man (Ballarat                                                                                                                                                          I have been asked to
      Fibre Arts about 5 years ago, I think)                                                                                                                                                       return to Australia in 2020
      to bring along something to sell. What                                                                                                                                                         and based on the fact
      relates to travel and has a picture on                                                                                                                                                            that I will be doing what
      it? Post cards! I have made at least                                                                                                                                                               I enjoy with a people,
      one hundred of these fibre art pieces,                                                                                                                                                            many of whom have become
      each based upon an original drawing                                                                                                                                                                my friends, in a land of
      which I sketch directly onto the                                                                                                                                                               such vast, inescapable
      canvas before covering with fabric and                                                                                                                                                    beauty, perhaps that is what I
      thread. Brenda Wood in Brisbane (2 Sew                                                                                                                                                    shall be doing in 2020:
      Textiles) produces the kits. She has                                                                                                                                                      Travelling back to this land
      my original drawings printed onto fine                                                                                                                                                    of friends and inescapable
      cotton and then puts this                                                                                                                                                                 beauty! (Besides making art
      together with the canvas, directions,                                                                                                                                                     and practicing saying no).
      image of the completed image and some
      other bits and pieces, posting them                                                                                                                                                       You are so prolific and produce
      out to where ever they need to be.                                                                                                                                                        huge pieces of work,
                                                                                                                                                                                                How often do you sew?
      How often do you exhibit your work and                                                                                                                                                    I would say (besides what I
      what are some of you most memorable                                                                                                                                                       call down-time; when
      exhibitions?                                                                                                                                                                              nothing works and I wander
      Oh dear! This question reminds me of                                                                                                                                                      around listlessly with the TV
      my own greed rather than a memorable                                                                                                                                                      remote glued to my hand) every
      occasion; I have never had a solo                                                                                                                                                         day. If I’m not sewing then
      exhibition. Starting with all good                                                                                                        What does a day sewing with                     I’m sketching (for a
      intentions, I complete a couple of                                                                                                        you in your studio look like?                   prospective piece of textile
      works. Then along comes a client and                                                                                               An incredible mess! When                               art).
      all I see is the dollar sign – I am                                                                                           I am working at the sewing
      immediately more than willing to trade                                                                               machine, I empty all the snippets
      the pieces for money. I have so many                                                                                 of fabric onto the floor, my son
      works, not yet realized, living in my                                                                                described it once as dress makers
      head; one day, soon, I shall put them                                                                                vomit which I think is absolutely
      onto a gallery wall and begin to                                                                                     perfect.
      create exhibition memories.

                                                                                                                           What is coming up in the future
                                                                                                                           for you Kathryn?
                                                                                                                           Oh definitely that illusive solo
                                                                                                                           exhibition! I even have the
                                                                                                                           title: The Skin I’m In”. Dealing
                                                                                                                           with appearance and adornment
                                                                                                                           and decoration; things both
                                                                                                                           surface and psychological.
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