Lavender Layers by Zela Bissett
$450.00
51 x 41 cm on foam core
On a base layer of paper fibre composed of abika fibre, turmeric and onion skins, a second layer including corn silk and rhubarb fibre has been couched, followed by the smallest centre panel made exclusively from the flowers of the Illawarra Flame Tree. this as a very special tree (Brachychiton acerifolius) which in season is covered in bright red blossoms which accumulate underneath the tree from where I gathered them to make this paper. The radiating green spires are formed from filamentous algae harvested from waterways.
Purchased artworks can be collected on Thursday, 13 July 6:30-8:30 pm*, and on Friday, 14 July during gallery hours
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 12-6 pm, Saturday 11 am-6 pm
*Gallery is open until 8:30 pm on the 13 July for the next opening night
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Description
Zela Bissett’s exhibition, Paper Hero, is aptly named because the paper itself is the hero of the artworks. These are no ordinary papers but sheets of specialised substance formed by the artist from plants and earths gathered from her subtropical garden. The various plants give colour, texture and character to the papers formed from them. Zela uses banana trunks, ginger stalks, arrowroot, okra, aloe vera and many other plants to achieve a variety of effects in her unique artworks, of which paper is indeed the hero, sometimes complemented by inks which Zela also makes from first-principles. She brews and strains berries, flowers or bark to get different shades and tones. Embedded within the paper are fronds, fragments and tendrils of the plants which were used to make the papers. Zela works within the offerings of nature, finding much to explore and making artworks whose subtle beauty reflects the natural materials from which they are composed.
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