Award Winning Textile Artist
Katherine, Northern Territory NSW
 Carolyn Whitting is an award winning Textile Artist and Wearable Art Designer who resides on a Mango Farm in Katherine, Northern Territory with her husband, teacher and writer Michael Whitting. Carolyn is a prolific contemporary textile artist and Teacher at Katherine School of the Air and creates her textile designs in the seclusion and sanctuary of the Australian Outback.
Carolyn is renowned throughout the Australian contemporary quilting scene as an award winning textile artist. Her mediums vary from wearable artworks to bed quilts and tactile wall hangings. Winner of the 2008 Katherine Craft Acquisition Award for her wearable artwork Rainforest Dragon Lizard, Carolyn has exhibited her work throughout Darwin, Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland.
“It is just the most extraordinary piece of work” Territory Art CEO Leonie McNally Said “ It’s just this amazing intelligent thinking-intelligence and imagination have collided.” The dress was made by dropping thousands of brightly coloured threads onto sections of dissolvable fabric, which were sewn over dozens of times, then the fabric was dissolved to leave just the artwork. Carolyns inspiration for these unique designs come predominately from the topography of the Australian landscape, the flora and fauna of the Australian outback and the six seasons of Australia’s Top end. Carolyn’s; most recent wall hanging , Life on a Gum Tree (2008) was exhibited at Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre in June 2009 and won the 2008 Northern Territory Best of Show Art Quilt Award.
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| Rainforest Dragon Lizard |
Inspired by May, Life on a gum tree, was constructed with sSilk, rayon, velvet and various yarns hand dyed with fibre reactive dyes, beaded machined motifs, machine and hand embroidery and quilting. The back and under layers of eucalypts are home to hosts of insects and small animals. Carolyn represented the cycle of connections in the wall hanging.
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| Life on a gum tree |
Carolyn’s unique designs are a culmination of cutting edge textile techniques encompassing hand dying and printing, marbling, beading, felting continuous thread machine embroidery and quilting. These individual pieces commissioned for bedrooms or wall art are one off handcrafted textile designs that evoke memory and create a timeless piece of personal history.
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Carolyn can be contacted on 08 89710693 or
Mango Haus
PO Box 2316
Katherine NT 0851 |
