My work deals with the natural environment and associated memories and connections.
Memories 2009
The cloth or paper I use to make the works is imbued with dyes that I have extracted from leaves, bark and flowers from native trees. In the process of dyeing, the plant materials leave traces like memories of their life-blood. The sheets of paper or pieces of cloth are arranged into abstract assemblages, their marks informing the drawing or stitching. Stiches or marks of coloured pencils and pastels form meditations on paper.
Chantale Delrue
Chantale was born in Belgium and studied at the Academy of Heist Op Den Berg. After receiving a degree in painting from the Sint Lucas Instituut in Brussels, Chantale travelled extensively in Asia and Latin America. She lived in California and Mexico before settling in Tasmania in 1980. In 2006 Chantale received a Masters Degree from the University of Tasmania. She has worked on numerous large-scale commissions and has done residencies in Japan and Europe. Last year she had a solo show at the Belfry in Bruges, Belgium.