Voorpostel, Derek (AUS)
‘Summer’, (Dress for Janice)
Designer Dreaming Award, sponsored by Stephanie Reynolds - AUD$1000
Since the mid-1990’s, Derek has been exploring the world of fibre arts, primarily batik and shibori. He has had an on-going fascination with resist dying, especially as it is practised in explore Indonesia and Japan. Whilst he has been inspired by inspired by what he has been shown and taught by master artists of traditional methods, “What I have loved most is to push the boundaries of the traditional to respectfully create my own stories of modern mythology.”
Derek has also discovered a love of the medium of paper. In 2022, Derek was awarded the Tasmanian Hearing and Implant Centre, Dr Kellie Walker’s Encouragement Award for his piece In Honour of Musashi. “It has been a revelation. The discipline of paper pulping and paper sculpting has, somewhat just emerged. It allows me to bring a finer skill set of the many crafts I have honed over the years. I have been sculpting paper, from embossing flat sheets of paper pulp with ‘chaps’ to press release moulds.”
This experimentation and experience led to the design and development of his 2024 work ‘Summer’, (Dress for Janice)
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Photos Credit: Grant Wells Photo