Art On Stage April 2018

Meadow Life is the title of the installation I am currently creating for our 2018 County Pop stage, at the historical Crystal Palace in Picton, Ontario. This year’s creation will be my largest up cycled textile installation and will have individually handcrafted wildlife in their natural habitat. It is created with the intention to express a local touch point of beauty reinterpreted in unlikely and unforeseen places.

This cross-sectional, semi-abstract stage art arrangement is a snapshot of a meadow from above and below the ground. Materials are carefully chosen by colour and pattern to represent the hand-cut and detailed elements, such as grassland creatures, wildflowers, native grasses, fibrous roots systems, organic matter and various layers of earth. The piece will symbolically represent the vital significance and diversity of a landscape that may be a seemingly simple one, at first glance.

Method and Details:
Stitched throughout the textile meadow will be blooming Black-eyed Susan, Cardinal flowers and Wild Bergamot hovering above the permeable ground, which nest grassland birds and other creatures. This penetrating plant-mass community, becomes the extensive root systems in my method, as unravelled, frayed and knotted County-sourced marine rope remnants are stitched on to the larger work, in order to echo this complexity in nature, into textile.

Seventy-three hand-cut, geometrical and padded forms in earth- tone textiles will provide the visual weightiness and heavy textural contrast to the lower half of this 25 foot wide piece. The 3D multi segments are meant to cast shadows and absorb the ambient lighting - in a way that layers of soil, organic material and aggregate do the same. I added muddy blue hues to reflect a shallow ground water flow and a recharging aquifer, located deeper still. 

Art On Stage September 2017

Scientists near coral reefs habitats off Western Australia recorded new audio of fish choruses, around dusk and dawn, like birds on land! These natural soundscapes were useful not just for fish, but also for other reef dwellers like coral and were part of a larger quest to understand reef ecosystems, by listening to their inhabitants. Altering ocean chemistry (ocean acidification) and warming water temperatures, brought on by climate change, are leading to coral bleaching; putting stress on coral reefs and its ecosystem. 

Seemingly from underwater in the ocean, this sweeping 4-piece up-cycled textile original stage-art installation - Good Reef! Helping The Dusk and Dawn Chorus - is created entirely from sewing rescued textiles discarded by the design industry, as well as marine rope remnants.

Art On Stage June 2017

Long View Wonder - Visualizing the importance of Science & Nature

Long View Wonder was inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and bees with their honeycomb hives. These two natural and scientific marvels in their familiar structural forms popped in harmony, while contrasting colour, texture and symbolic patterns played with the twinkling County Pop banner.

The JWST’s eighteen, golden mirror segments and the thriving beehive, rendered in up cycled textiles attempted to lead one's imagination to a deeper engagement with both nature and science. The concept reflects upon the scope and depth of the informed scientific consensus based upon truths that will echo for generations.

Photo of headliner, SARAH HARMER with up cycled textile art by Suendrini 

Art On Stage: Long View Wonder at Skeleton Park Art Festival 2017 with musical talents

23-25 June 2017

Art On Stage May 2017

Art On Stage September 2016

Blue - Water Awareness

Sandbanks Music Festival 2016’s art on stage was inspired by Japanese artist of the Edo period, Katsushika Hokusai’s iconic pieces on Water. Suendrini created a five-piece customized art installation, titled, “Blue” that brought awareness to the powerful subject matter.

The projections in the The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Environmental Outlook to 2050 suggest that freshwater availability will be strained unless new policies, awareness building and actions are taken to improve the current outlook.

Photo of art on stage - close up 

Art On Stage April 2016

Ode To Prince/Green For All 

Art on Stage September 2015

Secret Beach, Prince Edward County