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Narratives in Lace: The Process

Master of Research 'process' exhibition, Curtin University, Building 418, Exhibition Space
Borloo/Perth, 9th - 13th of May 2022

Molly Ryan, Creative Process Video. 2022, Digital video. Videography: Molly Ryan. 

Exhibition Overview

Over time, cloth becomes annotated by its custodian: details of its lived experience become embedded within its material and immaterial structure. This exhibition follows my process of making textiles and using textile processes that explore the lived experience of three ancestrally significant lace textiles. In this practice-based research project, theory and practice oscillate to navigate the significance of information extracted from historical textiles in navigating contemporary social and cultural issues.

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Molly Ryan, Narratives in Lace: The Process, installation shot. 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, A Complex Biography (naturally dyed lace fragments, machine embroidered). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Material Recreation 3 (naturally dyed silk with natural ink, ancestral lace screen print). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Material Recreation 2 (naturally dyed upcycled cotton sheet with natural ink, ancestral lace screen print). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Intergenerational Patching 2 (naturally dyed upcycled cotton sheets with natural ink, ancestral lace screen print). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Intergenerational Patching 2 (detail) (naturally dyed upcycled cotton sheets with natural ink, ancestral lace screen print). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Textile samples. 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Textile samples. 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Hand stitched 'thinking cloths'. 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Embodied Lacescape 1 (detail). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Narratives in Lace: The Process, installation shot. 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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Molly Ryan, Embodied Lacescape 4 (detail). 2022, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan. 
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