The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Georgia Chapman

" Eastern ornament has long been an ongoing source of inspiration and my current work explores the West’s fascination with the East… My fabrics evolve, often taking weeks to produce by layering texture, colour and pattern. The fabric is dyed, overdyed, handprinted, etched, embellished. I look back to other times, seek out textile traditions to authenticate my work… I collect and create anew."

Georgia CHAPMAN
born Australia 1970
Japonism (detail) (2002–03)
silk, beaded nylon mesh, rayon thread, acid dyes, discharge paste, cotton tape, wire, vellum, electrical cord, light globes; handprinted and handpainted
two of 39.4 x 58.4 cm diam.; two of 14.3 x 35.6 cm diam.;
two of 57.2 x 48.3 cm diam.