• Amanda HO<br>「Secret life of a tapestry」

    2019年6月から7月にかけてアーティスト・イン・レジデンスを行った際、オーストラリアのタペストリー工房にあるタペストリーが送られ、プロの手によってクリーニングされた。完成後初めてのクリーニングであった。
    私はクリーニングの過程に興味を持ち、その結果に魅了された。
    タペストリーは6×6のグリッドに分割され、それぞれの部分に新しいフィルターで掃除機をかける。フィルターはグリッドに対応して記録され、興味深いパターンを形成していた。

    もし「汚れ」が何らかの方法でコミュニケーションをとることができれば、まるで「壁の上のハエ」のように、物語や秘密を語ることができるだろう。
    洗浄工程で出た繊維の入ったフィルターで展示用にアレンジした。

    A tapestry was sent in to the Australian tapestry workshop to be professionally cleaned when I was artist in residence in June/July 2019. The tapestry was being cleaned for the first time since its completion.
    I was interested in the process of cleaning and fascinated by the outcome of the process.
    The tapestry was divided into a 6 x 6 grid and each portion was vacuumed with a new filter. The filters were documented corresponding to the grid and formed an interesting pattern.

    The work intended for exhibition
    Two woven pieces that are interpretations of the ‘dirt’ pattern, the stories and secrets the ‘dirt’ could tell if they could communicate in some ways, as if they were ‘fly on the wall’.
    Attached image shows first interpretation of the dirt pattern, I intend to weave another piece for the Vitrine display.
    Other attached images also show the filters with fibres from the cleaning process and i would like to arrange some of them for display as well.

    • アマンダ・ホーはメルボルンに生まれ、幼少期を香港で過ごしました。彼女は、建築家として働く傍ら、織物を学び、自身の内面の二面性を作品制作に活かしています。
      2015年、彼女は建築から織物へと再フォーカスし、「the weavers' workroom」をスタートさせました。デザイン、素材、パターン、構造への興味は、彼女の作品に影響を与え続けています。
      和田佳子の「スローファイバー:素材とその特性の理解」の講義に触発され、アマンダの作品は素材の個々の挙動と相互作用を探求し、計算された仕事でそれらを作品としているのです。
      また、アマンダはビクトリア州のHand Weavers and Spinners Guildや自身のスタジオで織物の指導も行っています。

      Amanda Ho was born in Melbourne but spent part of her childhood in Hong Kong. She draws on the duality of her heritage to influence her practice.
      She learnt to weave while working as an architect.
      In 2015, she began to refocus from architecture to weaving, starting ‘the weavers’ workroom’. Her interest in design, materials, patterns and structures continues to influence in her work.
      Inspired by Yoshiko Wada’s lecture on Slow Fibre: the understanding of materials and their characteristics, Amanda’s work explores the individual behaviour of materials and their interactions with each other, thus manipulating them with calculated expectations.
      Amanda also teaches weaving at the Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria and from her studio.
      Amanda Ho

      Group Exhibitions:

      2021 Victorian Craft awards, Craft, Melbourne, Victoria
      2020 AIR 19, Artist in Residence 2019, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
      2019 Craft Window Walk, part of Craft Cubed 2019, Melbourne, Victoria
      2019 Spatial Layering, Off Centre Gallery + Studio, Milawa, Victoria
      2019 Warped Perspectives, Craft, Melbourne, Victoria
      2012, 2014, 2016, 2018
      Petite, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria
      2015 Tactile, Wodonga Art Space, Wodonga, Victoria
      2015 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Awards, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria
      2013 Graduate exhibition, Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan
      2013 Small Works exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria
      2012 Scarf Festival ‘the journey’, the National Wool Museum,
      Geelong, Victoria
      2012 Beechworth Fabric and Fibre Award, Old School House gallery, Beechworth, Victoria
      2009 In Bloom, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria

      Individual exhibition
      2021 Members vitrine Gallery, Craft, Melbourne, Victoria

      Awards:
      2015, 2011, 2008
      Royal Melbourne Show:
      Craft spinning & weaving: woven article: First prize
      2011, 2015 Royal Melbourne Show:
      Craft spinning & weaving: Best Exhibit: Spinning & weaving

      Collections:
      Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria

      Education:
      2018 3-day Meredith Woolnough 3-d/sculptural machine embroidery Master class, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria
      2016 2-day tapestry workshop with Tim Gresham,
      Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
      2016 5-day Liz Williamson Contemporary Double Weave Master class, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, Victoria
      2015 3-day Natural dye and 3-day yarns/fibres workshops with Aboubakar Fofana, Melbourne, Victoria
      2005-2010 Diploma of Studio Textile Design (part-time, incomplete),
      RMIT University, Victoria
      1986-1992 Bachelor of Planning and Design, Hons,
      Bachelor of Architecture, Hons,
      Melbourne University, Victoria

      Residencies:
      2019 Artist in Residence program, self studies, Australian Tapestry Workshop
      2019 5-day course in Shifu (paper yarn weaving) & 3-day course in Natural Dye, KTS
      2017 3-day course in Natural Dye, KTS
      2014 2-week course in Applied Kasuri I, KTS
      2013 2-week course in Foundation Kasuri, KTS
      2013 3-day contemporary Japanese weaving workshop
      Saori no Mori Studio, Osaka, Japan
      2010 5-day contemporary Japanese weaving workshop; including Hand Weaving Skills Testing Association Grade 3 certificate
      Saori no Mori Studio, Osaka, Japan
      KTS: Kawashima Textile School, Kyoto, Japan

      Teaching experience:
      2016 - Current Frame loom weaving for beginners.
      Handmakers’ Factory, Seddon, Victoria
      2015 - Current Introduction to Freestyle weaving; and Introduction to weft Kasuri workshops
      The Weavers’ Workroom, Melbourne, Victoria
      2018 - Current Introduction to weft Kasuri workshops
      Introduction to 4-shaft weaving short course
      John Noble Fund workshops
      Summer School program,
      Hand weavers and spinners guild of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

      Affiliations and memberships:
      Craft
      Hand weavers and spinners guild of Victoria
      Creative Women’s Circle