Artist’s ‘Musings’ create intimate exhibition

Local artist Margaret Adams has created a highly-evocative series of small works that reflect her personal memories over 30 years, in her second exhibition for Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery, opening this month.

The tiny, complex works she has created for the ‘Musings’ exhibition use materials that reflect significant and meaningful events in her life.

“I have collected memorabilia – maps and tickets from my past meanderings as a 20-year old hitching around Europe, letters home, as well as documents from my father’s collection of receipts and papers,” Margaret says.

While the items themselves are relatively commonplace, it is Margaret’s placement of one element against another that elevates the works into complex constructions.

Her training as a sculptor, and the influence of Japanese ascetics, shine through in the simple, yet thoughtful and mindful composition in her works.

“I’m interested in words and have read and written most of my life,” Margaret said. “My interest – in forming words, in the shapes and lines made when I am writing them – seems weighted in the age of computers.”

Margaret displays her acute eye for line and form in the remarkable small works skilfully prepared for second exhibition at Timeless Textiles Gallery

Musings will run from 16 August to 10 Sept, with an opening by Wilma Simmons on Thursday 17 August.

Margaret Making her Mark in new exhibition.

Local artist Margaret Adams has drawn on a life-long exploration of mark-making for a stunning new exhibition of small textile works opening at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery in April.

Margaret displays her acute eye for line and form in the remarkable small works skilfully prepared for Mark Making, which will be her first solo exhibition.

She has been immersed in the world of art for most of her life.

“I’ve always been drawn to patterns, joining-up lines and mark-making,” Margaret explains. “As a young child this was expressed in my own patch of garden.”

Over many years, she has explored drawing and illustrating on canvases, stones (lithographs and sculptures) and, more recently, linens and other textiles. Kevin Lincoln’s approach to minimal abstracts has inspired her.

Margaret finds embroidery a very mediative process, calming and spontaneous.

“My work is reflective of embroidery and stitching done through the ages, usually done when the day’s work is done,” she said.

She has demonstrated her fine ability in creating the Mark Making works, which feature her illustrations stitched and painted into canvas. The small stitched drawings reflect the bold influences of abstract patterns, tonal colours and simple clear lines.

Mark Making will open April 16^thand run until May 3, 2015.