New China - Lindsey Whitelaw
New China 85 x 26.5 mixed media collage
This is a textile collage on a black background of faux leather using hand-painted silks, satin and yellow polythene interspersed with beads and silk stitching. A vertical strip of of midnight blue/purple forms the left hand side of the image perforated with vertical rows of small cut out windows gainsay white silk. On the right hand side of the painting a strip Silk hand-painted in pinks and blues and greys is partially covered by a torn yellow plastic bag, oversewn with lines of vertical silk stitching. At the base In the bottom eighth of the collage a strip of painted silk with stitching is over written in bronze ink with the word NEW CHINA. In the top tenth of the collage, black beads and tiny purple silk rectangles are sewn into soft pink silk.
This image is the original tactile artwork that Lindsey sent to Michael Boswell and Pat Crawford. She created further images based on their descriptions of what they saw or visualised when they looked at or felt the original piece.
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