I celebrated International Women's Day on Sunday, 8 March by participating in a very happy and colourful textile art installation - a 72 square metre fabric tile mosaic which was the culmination of many months of innovative planning and creative workshops at Timeless Textiles Gallery , 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle East (NSW, Australia) .... You can read more about the project in my previous blog post . "Letting Go" was such fun with hundreds of women, led by community leaders, textile artist coordinators and a well known Aboriginal artist and elder, scattering the fabric tiles to the wind. The mosaic followed Elsie Randall 's Aboriginal design of four large butterflies, and while it took many hours to prepare on the footpath outside The Lock Up Cultural Centre , it was exhilarating to see the fabric tiles scattered with happy abandon by one and all. People came from far and wide to participate, and i...
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