Website: www.cathyjackcoupland.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cathyjackcouplandartist
Instagram: @cathyjackcoupland
E-mail: quiltmakers@ozquitnetwork.org.au
Cathy Jack Coupland creates uniquely tactile, dimensional contemporary artworks bursting with excitement and vigour. Her recognizable style of lyrical and rhythmic design is based on passions involving the natural world as well as historical textiles resulting in remarkable machine embroidered textile and fibre art.
Colour is a recurring theme, used with a stimulating sense of daring, while free machine embroidery is the dominant technique used to create amazing dimension via the density of stitch. This produces a rippling surface full of movement, able to catch and reflect light.
From inspiration to stitch, Cathy’s dedication to process uses simple photography, drawing, colouring and stitching.
And Then There Were Three
Retail Price: AUD$3000
Dimensions: 140 x 207 cm (H x W)
Statement: This unusual format inspired by the medieval embroidery the Bayeux Tapestry, offers a perfect opportunity for a composition about a family of nesting birds. Featuring gently abstracted frangipani leaves, flowers and buds, this contemporary artwork communicates a link to historical embroideries.
Free machine embroidery, rayon and polyester threads, acrylic felt.
Exhibitions: 6th Biennial Golden Textures Contemporary Art Quilt Exhibition 2021 and Art Quilt Australia 2021
Award: Ozquilt Network Award of Excellence 2021
Pleasure Beauty Freedom
Retail Price: AUD$3000
Dimensions: 42 x 203cm (H x W)
Statement: This lyrical design embraces the delight at easing of Covid restrictions. Referencing the Bayeux Tapestry’s format, a sense of liberation dances with Australia’s magnificent flora and fauna. A geometric border embraces strength and fortitude, uniting and connecting during difficult times.
Free machine embroidery, rayon and polyester threads, acrylic felt.
Ode to Plants
Retail Price: AUD$1000
Dimensions: 63cm diameter
Statement: Plants nourish the soul and soothe our senses with their seductive beauty and fragrance, rhythmically fostering seasonal renewal and regeneration.
A circular format represents the life-cycle while the central cut-away areas emulate plant cell structure.
Free machine embroidery, rayon and polyester threads, acrylic felt.
Exhibition: Australian Textile Art Award 2020
Pure Pleasure
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 90 x90 cm (H x W)
Statement: Colour is an experience of sight. It has the power to evoke emotion, give warning or simply express pleasure. Inspiration for that sense of pleasure was derived from a piece of Agate, a banded stone evoking those naturally produced combinations
Exhibitions: Margaret Oppen Competition, EGNSW Gallery76
Awards: Winner Margaret Oppen Prize, Tutor
