SPACE 3: THE FEELINGS MUTUAL BY LAUREN TAUSEND & JADE WALSH
Exhibition dates. 5 -16 Oct 2022
Opening Reception : Thur 6 Oct 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.
Images: (left to right) Jade Walsh, Lauren Tausend
The Feelings Mutual
‘The Feelings Mutual’ is a project by two artists who work with textiles; Lauren Tausend and Jade Walsh. Two separate exhibitions showing alongside each other with common threads of heartbreak, love and vulnerability.
Lauren Tausend
Under the umbrella title ‘The Feelings Mutual’, Lauren Tausend presents a collection of textile artworks entitled ‘Mind Map’. Finding inspiration from a blend of the natural environment and the processing of thoughts as they intersect on her daily walks, Lauren translates these thoughts, feelings and moments in time into existential maps of shape, colour, movement and texture. Creating a mind map of her internal and external environment as a way to document and bring softness to the emotional upheaval of heartbreak, change and letting go.
Lauren Tausend is a textile based artist from Melbourne who focusses on the process of storytelling through traditionally craft based practices. Using hand and machine knitting and crochet, Lauren’s work explores the intersection between art, craft and design. Her work has an organic and playful approach with a strong connection to the hand. ‘Mind Map’ is Lauren’s second solo exhibition, and is supported by Regional Arts Victoria, Sustaining Creative Futures Initiative.
Jade Walsh
Alongside Lauren Tausend and under the umbrella of 'The Feelings Mutual’, Jade Walsh presents a collection of medium to large paintings and textiles. ‘Blockheads' are thread and acrylic paintings combining drawing gestural painting and text. “Fishermen” and ‘Fisherwomen’ are textiles of similar layerings of drawing, screenprint on fabric and text. These works are made from an ongoing connection to themes such as singledom, relationships, and the search for love.
Jade Walsh is currently a Ballarat based artist who uses fabric, sewing, paint, print and performance and blends social commentary with personal confession. She explores female identity through relationships and friendships; and channels heartbreak, loneliness, vulnerability, love and humour through her visual and word- blended art. She is also a writer and makes zines and has performed in the synth and spoken word duo The Fluffs Electric. She has an MFA from RMIT, exhibited nationally and internationally & travelled to USA & Europe for Screen-printing residencies supported by Australia Council Grants. Her art is in private collections nationally and internationally.
“I draw from human states and social realities such as loneliness or singledom and the need for love and contact because I feel it intensely myself. I need to deal with it through art and ideas. Art is, for me, a way of connecting with others”. Jade Walsh
The Artwork
