Clio Padovani




In my work I  am interested in exploring time in the image, be it through video or through woven pieces. I work with varied approaches to unfold the plurality of narratives hidden in textiles, employing images of antique textiles to communicate a fragmentary world of physical and psychological experience. In 2006, I started a series of short films based on the idea of unfolding and stacking simultaneous layers of experience and subjective histories.
The Stack pieces progressively came to signify and be a metaphor for thread, being woven into a personal history or an accumulation of embedded material memories.

 

Born:   1963  Florence, Italy.
   
1987-89:  MA Degree Fine Art Tapestry, Royal College of Art, London
1984-87:  BA (Hons)  Art and Design, Edinburgh College of Art


Recent  Awards:


2006: -Outstanding Award, From Lausanne to Beijing, 4th International Fibrearts Biennale (Suzhou), China
Recent Exhibitions :
2007: Virtual Gallery, ETN Conference,  Constance Howard Resource Centre,
Goldsmiths College, London UK
2006:     From Lausanne to Beijing, 4th International Fiberarts Biennale,
 (Suzhou) China, international juried exhibition, catalogue ISBN:7-112-08674-4
 L'Affaire est dans le Sac, Diagonale, Montreal, Canada
2005:    Blanc de Blanc, textile print and tapestry, Diagonale, Montreal , Quebec
2004:  International Textile Art Open Exhibition, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast,
 with Caroline Broadhead, Marian Bjlenga, Lia Cook among others.
2003:     The Extraordinary Ordinary, video and textile installation, Handwerker
 Gallery, Ithaca, NY 
Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002: Textiles, Catalogue ISBN: 1-90371-072


Recent citations:


Hemmings, Jessica, Reeling in the years, Film:video:textile:time, Selvedge Magazine, n 15,pp.60-61 2007
Hemmings, Jessica, Defining a movement, Fiberarts, Sep/Oct 2005, p 33, ISSN 0164-324X
Jefferies, Janis,  Unbound Episodes cited in: –œTouch-In Touch, Out of Touch: Surface materialities and haptic technologies in contemporary art textiles –œThe Space Between conference, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, April 2004


E-mail: C.Padovani@soton.ac.uk




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