Jamie-Lee Garner is an interdisciplinary artist that works with an infinite kaleidoscope of colours and cotton threads. After receiving her BA in Architecture from the University of Sydney in 2018 she established an off-grid studio and began exploring large scale works with paint, ceramics and recycled textiles.

 

Through her practice she explores colour and material as immersive portals that connect us back to our sacred center, the place within us where memory and creative delight unite to elicit emotion. She is particularly interested in creating work that invites audiences into their imaginations to explore their own inner world.

 

Her approach considers how textiles carry the energetic signatures of our memories, as well as the embedded history of textiles traditionally regarded as ‘women’s work,’ alongside broader questions of post-consumer materials.

 

The textiles featured are ‘waste’ offcuts that have been donated to the artist by Re/lax Remade, a sustainably focused, Sydney-based fashion label that creates hats out of vintage towels. Each piece of fabric is embedded with the memories of the previous owner, an ode to the generations of families that owned these towels.