Holiday Textures
By Artist Dawn Myree
Holiday Textures was a solo exhibition of artworks by artist Dawn Myree in April 2016. For the Earth Art Broken Hill 2016 events Calendar Dawn conducted a workshop during the exhibition.
Using the notion of 'recycling' as an important aspect to sustainability the workshop participants painted textures onto recycled materials to make unique gift boxes and personalised greeting cards.
Objects such as plastic spoons, forks, paddle pop sticks together with other inventive tools helped create unusual textures surfaces. The results were colourful and original pieces that repurposed objects as tools old things new again and each piece gave discarded materials a second life.
Creativity for Dawn is a lifelong pursuit: manipulating paper, wool, cloth, string and copper and learning to dance and sing. Her Father designed and built wooden and steel furniture, tools, small parts and large machinery he innovated to fix anything in wood or metal.
She has built and renovated homes and gardens, designed jewellery, written poetry and developed personalised perfumes with natural oils and experimented with different visual mediums.
To Dawn the creation of Art connects herself with others on a deep level. To revisit another time or place evokes a desire and hope for the future, giving a gift which may calm and reinvigorate. Art is an expression of her inner journey, it is as much about learning the skills to physically manipulate and represent forms as it is an intellectual and emotional way of communicating.
