The Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award
Laurie Paine

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B.Yeats

 

Laurie PAINE
born Australia 1960
‘Of the night and light and the half-light’ (detail) (2002)
silk
sixteen of 200.0 x 100.0 cm