Hope for Women in Unexpected Places is an exhibition by TEAR Australia, it is a photo exhibition, but I was asked to create a piece for this show - that isn't a photo.
I was very excited to support TEAR as they do fabulous work both here and overseas with those who are the poorest in our world.
I was asked to create something that honoured women and the work they do. I chose to focus on water as this is an essential of life and sometimes one that poses difficulty.
While I was in Nepal I noticed that the women collected water in large metal containers and then often carried them in a large basket they carried slung from their heads. Washing is also often done in public, communally, at the water taps or down near the river. This also involves carting the garments in the basket.
Washing in Nepal is a colourful palette flying in the breeze and the dhaka fabrics, traditional to the area I visited, are particularly beautiful.
I chose to combine these images and fabric along with a map of Nepal to create my piece for the exhibition.
Washing in Nepal is the result. It depicts the water vessel, the woman carrying the basket of clothes and the washing blowing in the breeze above the stepped rice fields of Nepal.
I was very excited to support TEAR as they do fabulous work both here and overseas with those who are the poorest in our world.
I was asked to create something that honoured women and the work they do. I chose to focus on water as this is an essential of life and sometimes one that poses difficulty.
While I was in Nepal I noticed that the women collected water in large metal containers and then often carried them in a large basket they carried slung from their heads. Washing is also often done in public, communally, at the water taps or down near the river. This also involves carting the garments in the basket.
Washing in Nepal is a colourful palette flying in the breeze and the dhaka fabrics, traditional to the area I visited, are particularly beautiful.
I chose to combine these images and fabric along with a map of Nepal to create my piece for the exhibition.
Washing in Nepal is the result. It depicts the water vessel, the woman carrying the basket of clothes and the washing blowing in the breeze above the stepped rice fields of Nepal.
detail of dhaka fabric and map of Nepal used in the piece.
Washing in Nepal
detail of the water container image
If you would like to see this piece and the rest of the exhibition you can find it at
Chapel on Station Gallery
cnr Station st & Ellingworth Pde, Box Hill, Victoria
from February 20 - March 4
Tues - friday 11.30- 3
Saturday 1-4pm
Sunday 4.30 -7pm
There is an event on Friday 27 February with speaker Hailey Bartholomew of 365 Grateful
and music from 2 members of The Tealeaves
hope to see you there, tickets are available here
