Pearl Red Moon’s life’s trajectory has always been about art. She has never lived as if there was a separation between life and art making. There has never been a time when she didn’t make things. She calls the things she makes “art” because before postmodernism made lots of people go crazy they were objects regarded as completely frivolous and useless. What used to be known as “art for art’s sake”.

This exhibition, Women Being, provides a glimpse into her art to wear garments and some exquisite 3D sculptures. Each unique piece is conceived, designed and stitched by Moon from her studio tucked away in rural NSW. All are one off pieces of contemporary art intertwined with Moon’s personal ethics of up-cycled and recycling textiles from a previous life. Moon’s wearable art designed pieces speak to all women of all age’s, shapes and size.

Moon’s call is draped in wonderment: garments which have been hand-crafted using multiple methods, most taking many hours and weeks. The processes applied involve a combination of textile embellishment practices, drawing from multiple traditional practises evolved by women worldwide, but most especially patchwork combined with hand and machine stitching.

Moon builds layers upon layers resulting in a range of exquisite wearable garments bursting with colour, life and originality. Visiting her work studio you receive an eclectic glimpse into decades of treasures accumulated, these include mounds of fabrics of all descriptions, handmade stencils, found objects, paints, inks, yards and threads and much more. Moon creates with no rules, her years of pattern-making and experimenting results in her spontaneous pattern designing with colour combinations to delight.

Moon’s art and her art practice sits firmly in the 21 century ethical contemporary art philosophy

Moon says of her art:

one of my foremost concerns as an artist is to acknowledge the objects I make are firmly rooted in the traditions of textile artistry that were created by women. Women who were confined to domesticity and had their creativity sublimated into using textiles as their canvas and stitch as their line to make marks.

Each piece has been lovingly made, with devoted energy and innovation