Cut & Pinned drawing community engagement

community engagement

—Minerva Inwald

telling of ceaseless homecomings and departures

and personal narrative

Authored with incisive wit by Melinda Rackham and Elvis Richardson

Cut & Pinned drawing community engagementThis self published monograph reflects the Australian artist Louise Saxton's past two decades of collecting & re imagining discarded needlework. Her reclaimed cut & pinned needlework assemblages, profiled in full colour in this monograph, make a significant contribution to the long line of artists seeking to level the playing field between what is considered fine art and what is dismissed as craft. Embroidery and lace made in past eras by past makers