'Vanishing Into Stitches' - artist Ruth Marshall
Channel: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Date: 2013-07-12

New York-based Australian textile artist Ruth Marshall, discusses her exhibition, 'Vanishing Into Stitches', showing at the Australian Consulate-General in New York in July 2013. (Viewing by appointment only.)

New York based Australian textile artist Ruth Marshall creates hand knitted representations of exotic endangered animal species from Australia and around the world. Each of her one-of-a-kind textiles follows an intense research period of many months.  The research has taken her from the Melbourne Museum (Australia) to the American Museum of Natural History (New York). For this exhibition, Marshall will focus her interpretations on ocelots, tigers, a jaguar, leopards, bandicoots, numbats, tiger quolls, and the extinct Tasmanian tiger, showcasing their beauty and the perils they face.
 
In the New York Times regional art review, "Where Fiber Art Meets Hot Fudge Sundae", Benjamin Genocchio wrote, "Here we are invited to consider faux pelts as a desirable alternative to the harvesting of skins belonging to endangered species. The work is a plea for conservation."
 
For further information: Australian Consulate-General New York (http://www.newyork.usa.embassy.gov.au/nycg/events.html#Ruth%20Marshall) and Ruth Marshall Contemporary Fine Art (http://www.ruthmarshall.com/).