'The Effects of Global Warming’ - Fibre Art Exhibition

Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski  

The interaction between man and the environment is of growing concern as the human population is accelerating towards 9 billion.

Our existential need for food, clothing, shelter, minerals and energy has placed enormous pressure on the biosphere via de-forestation and de-habitation on a grand scale, thereby destroying the natural carbon sinks (such as flora) and at the same time, creating greenhouse gas sources, causing an unprecedented anthropogenic change of the Earth’s atmosphere. The philosophy underlying Marie-Therese’s ‘Environmental Art’ strives to prick the viewer’s consciousness to garner support for sustainability.

The ArtCloth works in this exhibition, ‘The Effects of Global Warming’, rest on the premise that native plant species are fragile in the modern world and are a threatened biological resource. The ArtCloth pieces have been created using her signature printing technique, MultiSperse Dye Sublimation (MSDS) which she will be demonstrating at the Rathmines Heritage Centre on Sunday 20th June from 11.00 am to 1.00 pm.

Exhibition Dates: Saturday 19 June – Sunday 20 June, 10am-2pm

Location: Rathmines Theatre, Boiler House

About the Artist: Marie-Therese Wisniowski works full time as a studio artist, author, curator and workshop/university lecturer, and is the Director of Art Quill Studio at Arcadia Vale, NSW, Australia. Marie-Therese’s art practice explores contemporary environmental, post-graffiti and socio-political issues. Specializing in printmaking, she has developed signature printing techniques to create complex, multi-layered artworks. Her world view is through the eyes of the forgotten, the marginalized or the misrepresented. She operates her artistic skill set on these thoughts to project conceptual landscapes on fibre surfaces. A passion for the natural world has created bodies of work examining anthropogenic climate change and the human designed environments we inhabit. She has exhibited widely internationally and nationally, written numerous articles in refereed journals, magazines, books, blogs and held academic/directorship positions. Her works are held in major public and private collections in Australia, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and the USA. See her blog spot - http://artquill.blogspot.com/ or linkedin - https://au.linkedin.com/in/marie-therese-wisniowski-60452564 for more information.

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Rathmines Boiler Room, 25 Stilling St, Rathmines NSW, Rathmines 2283  View in Google Maps