The decaying streetscapes and urban facades of Melbourne’s west have been recreated stitch-by-stitch by a Yarraville artist for the 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Jessie Deane’s exhibition (Thr)edifice, at Post Industrial Design in West Footscray, is a hand-stitched love letter to the richness she finds in the local urban landscape.
More than a quarter of a million stitches create striking needlepoints that subvert a medium often considered quaint or “pretty”, instead portraying industry and shop fronts.
“It is thrilling to mess with these opposing elements that might conventionally be perceived in the realm of the ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’,” Deane says.
“Stitch by stitch, in vibrant colour, I recreate these abandoned, fading or forgotten structures that are, for me, objects of beauty.”
[Thr]edifice is on show until October 12 at Post Industrial Design, 638 Barkly Street, West Footscray.
