Elsewhere

Although most of Dianne’s works start in memories of the land, some can have their origin in a phrase (Pictures at an exhibition, Strange Scribblings), fabric from another country, perhaps a feeling. The Japanese word for indigo is Ai, which is homophonous with the word for love. Indigo fabrics collected from a master dyer in Kyoto and supplemented by other purchases in Japan have led to many quilts using these fabrics. Lockdowns prompted a series of works, outwardly dissimilar, but they record the journey through isolation and the re-examining of life’s goals. Absent presence is followed by Dark night (of the soul), until morning arrives with the aboriginal story of the first dawn, when magpies lifted up the shroud over the world in Guluu.