In Gathering Dust, textile-based artist Elise Cakebread assembles a new body of work from the rescued detritus of domestic waste. Cakebread takes discarded garments, yarn, wire, fibres, ribbon, packaging materials, cushion stuffing, doilies, tablecloths, and reimagines them to create complex entanglements of colour and texture, emphasising the rich history of the material and its potential for future transformation. By harnessing the most abject of material categories – waste - and elevating it into aesthetic tableaux worth keeping, Elise Cakebread’s Gathering Dust casts a reconsideration of the value systems we live by, challenging our concept of waste and the industries that profit from producing it.
Image: Elise Cakebread, from Gathering Dust, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist. > Opening of Design Fringe 2023. Photograph: J Forsyth.
Linden New Art
Boonwurrung Country
26 Acland Street
ST KILDA VIC 3182
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The Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the lands where our office is located, and all Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria and Australia. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enduring traditions and continuing creative cultures. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
