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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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