Sowing and Sewing, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Wiradjuri country/Dubbo NSW
07.06.2025 – 07.09.2025
In Sowing and Sewing Gilgandra-based artist Clementine Belle McIntosh challenges the human-centric relationships which define our inherent “sense of place”. Combining textiles with traditional painting techniques and impulsive mark-marking with nonhuman collaboration, McIntosh’s textile installations reflect the dynamic and complex interactions present between local environments, industries, and communities in the context of rural Australia.
A continuation of McIntosh’s regenerative approach to art making, Sowing and Sewing invites viewers to be enveloped by the textile materials utilised and consider the narratives of the land, the industry that relies on it and the people that live within it. Thus, allowing us to build our own associations towards a “sense of place”.
This is a HomeGround exhibition, produced by the WPCC and supported by Orana Arts. HomeGround is sponsored by Wingewarra Dental.
Out Of Home, 2025, Gifted Dubbo McCafé tarp found on the side of the road by Doug, onion skin dye, avocado skin and pit dye, rabbit skin glue, personal paper waste, editions of the Gilgandra Weekly, flour, iron water
Out Of Home, 2025, Gifted Dubbo McCafé tarp found on the side of the road by Doug, onion skin dye, avocado skin and pit dye, rabbit skin glue, personal paper waste, editions of the Gilgandra Weekly, flour, iron water
Out Of Home (detail), 2025, Gifted Dubbo McCafé tarp found on the side of the road by Doug, onion skin dye, avocado skin and pit dye, rabbit skin glue, personal paper waste, editions of the Gilgandra Weekly, flour, iron water
Out Of Home (detail), 2025, Gifted Dubbo McCafé tarp found on the side of the road by Doug, onion skin dye, avocado skin and pit dye, rabbit skin glue, personal paper waste, editions of the Gilgandra Weekly, flour, iron water
Out Of Home, 2025, Gifted Dubbo McCafé tarp found on the side of the road by Doug, onion skin dye, avocado skin and pit dye, rabbit skin glue, personal paper waste, editions of the Gilgandra Weekly, flour, iron water; Local Consumer, 2025, salvaged beads from Reverse Garbage QLD, found birthday card and Buckwheat herbicide manual, secondhand silk thread, raw wool fleece from Glenroy dyed with Eucalyptus dye, Acacia seed pod dye, Marigold petals and lichen dye, gifted snakeskins from Sofie dyed with eucalyptus bark + leaves, lichen, Acacia seed pod + leaves, marigold petals and mistletoe, cornstarch
Local Consumer, 2025, salvaged beads from Reverse Garbage QLD, found birthday card and Buckwheat herbicide manual, secondhand silk thread, raw wool fleece from Glenroy dyed with Eucalyptus dye, Acacia seed pod dye, Marigold petals and lichen dye, gifted snakeskins from Sofie dyed with eucalyptus bark + leaves, lichen, Acacia seed pod + leaves, marigold petals and mistletoe, cornstarch
Local Consumer (detail), 2025, gifted snakeskins from Sofie dyed with eucalyptus bark + leaves, lichen, Acacia seed pod + leaves, marigold petals and mistletoe, cornstarch
Local Consumer (detail), 2025, raw wool fleece from Glenroy dyed with Eucalyptus dye, Acacia seed pod dye, Marigold petals and lichen dye, gifted snakeskins from Sofie dyed with eucalyptus bark + leaves, lichen, Acacia seed pod + leaves, marigold petals and mistletoe, cornstarch
Local Consumer (detail), 2025, gifted snakeskins from Sofie dyed with eucalyptus bark + leaves, lichen, Acacia seed pod + leaves, marigold petals and mistletoe, cornstarch
Local Consumer (detail), 2025, salvaged beads from Reverse Garbage QLD, found birthday card and Buckwheat herbicide manual, secondhand silk thread
Local Consumer (detail), 2025, salvaged beads from Reverse Garbage QLD, found birthday card and Buckwheat herbicide manual, secondhand silk thread
Sprinkle/Shot, 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Sprinkle/Shot (detail), 2025, Nancye’s old cotton sheet dyed with avocado skins, wrapped around a star picket for two months and shot with a shotgun by Booman, embroidery thread gifted by Helen and farm fencing wire
Turnover, 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover (detail), 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover (detail), 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover (detail), 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover (detail), 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover, 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Turnover, 2025, Gil op shop fabric, hibiscus flowers from Hayden’s garden, marigold flower dye, lemon juice, thread, farm fencing wire welded by Mick
Corro Sheet, 2025, gifted fabric from Indigo, crushed onion skin dyed eggshells, corn starch, water and farm fencing wire
Corro Sheet, 2025, gifted fabric from Indigo, crushed onion skin dyed eggshells, corn starch, water and farm fencing wire
Corro Sheet, 2025, gifted fabric from Indigo, crushed onion skin dyed eggshells, corn starch, water and farm fencing wire
Floorless, 2025, secondhand cotton/polyestor bedsheet from Cowra Vinnies, Lichen dye, homemade copper ink, Eucalyptus dye, Acacia seed pod dye, Rosemary dye, various leftover dyes from workshop, homemade rust water, gifted embroidery thread from Carole, farm fencing wire and pearls from my Mother’s broken necklace – with support from The Corridor Project Artist in Residence Program
