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Waste-Based...

Wearable Art

By Robyn Woodrow

Recycled, repurposed, refashioned,
remarkable – the works of multi media

textile artist, Robyn Woodrow. Robyn is
a true ‘mixed media’ artist, with a focus
on the use of recycled and found
objects in intricate works of wearable
and fine art. With an impressive
exhibition record, her works have been
displayed both nationally and
internationally, but it is still the pure joy
of creating, and being inspired by the

‘shining light’ of new ideas, that keeps
her going.

I’ve always been designing -
The Childcraft Encyclopedia ‘Make and
Do’ volume was my constant childhood
companion. My life has bounced
between the creative and the not so.
I’ve been a school art teacher, spent a
decade as an Army officer, and owned
my own corporate management

company. Along the way, I had a
couple of kids and got a couple of
master’s degrees.

In my late 30s I conceded that visual
creativity was where my contented soul
lay. I moved to Queensland’s Sunshine
Coast hinterland and established a