Portait of the artist. Exhibition day!

It feels like ages ago that I made my piece for Dale Copeland's exhbition (it wasn't!) and today is the launch day for the exhibiton. 75 artists took part from all over the globe and there are quite a few different interpretations of the theme. You can see them all here. or by going to the Virtual Tart link on my side bar.
My piece for the exhibition is below.

The mediums I choose are a reflection of me. The reflect what I care about, what I love and what I enjoy. The stitches and 'veins' of wire are symbolic of these things coming together in a bodily form.

I really enjoyed making this, especially the stitch work which was addictive! It amazes me what can be achieved with scrap fabric and the wire from a dismantled vaccum cleaner but these materials and colours put together are a 'bit of me.' It was a nightmare to photograph though!

I've been a terrible blog visitor/facebooker/tumbler/emailier these last few weeks. Busy, busy with end of year school things, Christmas preperations (the tree's up and lights are on!) the 4 birds and a tenancy inspection...I plan on redirecting atleast some of my attention to art and blog hopping soon! 

Portrait of the Artist

In December there will be an exhibiton titled "Portrait of the Artist" on the Virtual Tart website. I knew I wanted to enter but I was completely stumped for quite a while on what I would do for my submission. I kept thinking 'self portrait' which is definately not my strong point! As it turned out the answer was right under my nose..or rather right in front of me in my art stash! Some things are just too obvious to see at first:)
Two things lead to me realising what it was I needed to do. One thing was the comments Alicia recieved about her contribution to my Labyrinth book. The pages were so very nest like and everyone kept saying- "That is sooo Lisa!" They were right of course!
The second thing was Seth questions and answers for his artists call out. When I answered them I realised that my art dosn't just reflect what I like, as in birds and nests and recycled things, it also reflects who I am.
I'm so very pleased with this self discovery! (And that's all I am saying about that for now...)

I'm also only revealing a peek of what I have done for Dale's exhibition which opens at the start of December...I'll post the full piece on my blog then.

This piece is due next week, I started 3 nights ago! Talk about cutting it fine!

After I created this I realised that it wasn't actually the first time I have attempted a self portrait in this way...

Self portait in 2008. How things have changed! You can see the original post with  my thoughts and your comments here.