Mick Lindberg
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Two recent Mick Lindberg works that were included in our An Eclectic Eye VII exhibition:
Each life like a Snowflake
95 x 63 cm
A dress installation: 'She was the least expected colour of malva violet twilight....unbroken hyacinth'
A line from the Edith Sodergran poem 'What comes tomorrow' is embroidered on the back of the dress and reads:
'I shall smile and twirl silk threads around my finger and the little spool of your fate, I shall hide in the folds of my dress...'
h: 120 cm approximately
17 August - 3 September 2013
Exhibition of 'Fabric Paintings’
A Child is Born
87 x 87 cm
Belle of the Ball
93 x 93 cm
Three Marias
92 x 99 cm
Tea for Two
83 x 90 cm
Hat & Cat
71 x 61 cm
Let Yourself Blossom
68 x 56 cm
Red China
71 x 60 cm
Storm in a Teacup
81 x 64 cm
Seven Birds and a Red Dress
111 x 102 cm
Amalia
70 x 60 cm
Tanzania Talking
100 x 118 cm
Bird Song
87 x 83 cm
Four Teacups
88 x 71 cm
The Fortuneteller's Daughter
95 x 89 cm
Neroli
80 x 77 cm
Angel
97 x 77 cm
Mors Lille Olle
82 x 45 cm
Juno
104 x 78 cm
Spin Me in a Teacup
90 x 65 cm
The Secret
135 x 89 cm
Swedish born Mick Lindberg’s ravishing ‘Fabric Paintings’ exhibition opens at Anthony Hepworth Fine Art Dealers in Bath on 17th August. Mick, whose life took her on a journey through several walks of life - as a model, mother, photographer and fashion designer - says she was definitely born with a needle and thread in her hand. Her earliest memories are of sitting in on her mother’s sewing circle (under the table) absorbing all the sewing know-how of past generations. This stitching - some say it is the ‘slow happiness’ - has been a constant in Mick’s life, the thread that was always there, unravelling itself. To Mick, ‘made by hand’ has a particular, different value, with a particular energy that comes through in her art. The characters that she creates on canvas, often unexpected and not what she set out to originally stitch, have a life of their own. The hours spent stitching become part of a meditation and to Mick that energy remains inside the picture. One of her mother’s mottos went something like this: ‘No one will see, how quickly this work was done, but many will see its beauty’. Something beautiful can be made in a few minutes but Mick believes that those layers of time hold the story and the mystery of the work’s creation. Whether a photographic collage, the pattern for a dress, or the layering of fabric shapes to create an image.....its what lays between that interests her.
Inspired by both the travels she takes in reality and the nocturnal ones where ‘dreams are made’. Mick’s swedish heritage runs deep but she is equally interested in the fusing of many different cultures - the recycling and reshaping of materials from one medium to another, a transformation from old into new......and new into old. Like a Moth - as Mick says, a sort of MOTH-amorphosis.
June 2013.
Click here to see Deirdre McSharry's words on the exhibition in The Bath Magazine
Click here to download a PDF of the article (2.6 Mb)
