A while ago I helped Janis Savage and her friend Kim Lieberman work out
a grid for Kim's lace sculpture project and I have just received this
message from Janis.
Hello Brenda,
The exhibition of lace, for which you helped me work out the grid, is
finally on show. You can see the article written for the Mail &
Guardian newspaper here
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-10-18-extreme-craft-meets-art
and another picture here
http://www.mg.co.za/section/arts
When the process of making bobbin lace was explained to her,
thejournalist, Andrea Vinassa, coined the phrase "extreme craft" to
describe lacemaking. which is probably quite apt to compare lacemakers
with extreme sportspeople who obsessively take their sport to ever
greater extremes and are cosidered a bit crazy to keep on doing it.
I made 8 of the chaotic ground circles and when it just got too boring
doing the same pattern over and over again, I arranged for a group of
lacemakers to do another 9 while Kim did one. She will send you a
catalogue of the exhibition in due course.
The artworld here are apparently "blown away" by the works but I will
be interested to see if any of them are sold. When I looked at the
prices quoted for them and got my breath back, I think, as lacemakers,
we must be considerable undervaluing our work - one of these bronze
figures with it's lace collar is R36,000 + VAT!!! That works out at
about $3500 + tax or GBP 2500, even at today's poor exhange rate of
the SA Rand.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Greetings from Janis Savage
South Africa
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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