Jenny is from Taranaki and has a very wide ranging art practice. She often explores environmental issues in her works. Jenny describes her practice below:
Over recent years I have used fibre and fabric to make contemporary art works, often using knitting and including paint or printing onto fabric, sometimes I will machine or hand stitch into the fabric in an attempt produce an image that interests me. Working with these media together can be a challenge, but is stimulating and exciting, especially if the final image is a success.
Jenny is the primary artist contributing to ‘Diaries’ which is open for viewing from August 5th to September 13th 2021. The gallery is delighted to be exhibiting three of Jenny’s diaries that span 365 days. They are described in detail on the main web page https://fromoutofthebluestudiogallery.com/diaries/ Sale details are on the website shop page.
There is an addition short diary work created by Jenny while waiting or her grand daughter to be born . This work is not being offered for sale.
“Waiting for Erin”
A small art work I did when in England waiting for my granddaughter Erin to be born, every day I embroidered a small circle on each small square of voile (one square each day) some of the circles have a clock face with actual time on it, I did this every day until she was born. There is always a lot of clock watching while waiting for a baby to be born. I was with her mother and my son to assist with her delivery, a treasured memory. 2011
Jenny’s description of this delightful time based work.
For the ‘Flour Sack Challenge’ which is an invitational part of the ‘Made Over – Preserving & Reinterpreting’ Exhibition, Jenny took her flour sack and attempted to bring the original flour bag design back to life. By using different media she was trying to tell the same story on what was the back of the original flour bag.
Full details of this work are on the webshop listing. https://fromoutofthebluestudiogallery.com/product/a-story-retold-jenny-bielawski/
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For the exhibition ‘Dreaming of the Future’ Jenny used her signature method of delicate freeform knitting to create Ghost Tree Red Line.
Ghost Tree Red Line
TREES, either standing alone or part of large forests, continue to be destroyed in huge numbers all around the planet, with disastrous effect on the Earth and the atmosphere around it. This lonely WHITE TREE is a memory, a ghost of trees lost. The RED LINE, a reminder that we must take action before it is too late, Plant TREES! The Ghost tree has been knitted with NZ Merino 2ply baby wool, an attempt to indicate how fragile and defenceless trees are.
This beautiful work is available through the gallery or through the gallery web shop. Please check it out for more details. If you have any further questions please contact the gallery.