The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Sara Lindsay

"For over a decade I have been using gingham fabric to construct woven tapestries which comment on my life as a migrant. I have made particular reference to memories of childhood and concepts of Home, employing gingham’s strong black and white contrasts to speak of polarity – here/there, north/south, past/future etc. Re-weaving the torn fabric transforms this universally recognized cloth, giving it a new identity in its altered state."

Sara LINDSAY
born Great Britain 1951, arrived Australia 1966
Pulse (detail) (2002)
cotton, wool, acrylic, metal, acetate, paper; woven tapestry
three of 118.0 x 118.0 cm; 118.0 x 394.0 cm (overall)