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A Color for All Seasons While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape for many, Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life. “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “Honeysuckle derives its positive qualities from a powerful bond to its mother color red, the most physical, viscerally alive hue in the spectrum.” Eiseman continues, “The intensity of this festive reddish pink allures and engages. In fact, this color, not the sweet fragrance of the flower blossoms for which it was named, is what attracts hummingbirds to nectar. Honeysuckle may also bring a wave of nostalgia for its associated delicious scent reminiscent of the carefree days of spring and summer.”
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Nalda Searles – Western Australian artist
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Nalda Searles is a living icon of Western Australian art. For nearly thirty years she has been an innovator in the use of native plant fibres and found objects from the environment for the production of fibre-textiles, sculpture and installation artworks.
Her exhibition ‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ is an expression of identity in relation to physical and social landscape. Searles has drawn on her own life, memories of her parents and the experiences of numerous regional women she has known in the gradual development of the twenty one exhibition works on view. They make some of the most haunting poetic statements to emerge from Western Australia’s fibre textile sculpture movement and include a grass skull, stately kangaroo headed figures, a vessel woven from the artists own hair and a salvaged pram watched over by a flock of grass birds.
The exhibition is accompanied by a major publication presenting Searles’ works within the context of her remarkable three decade career and is complimented by an evocative DVD, ‘Nalda Searles – A Stitching of Words. Interpretations of Making and Making Do’, that introduces the artist, her thinking processes and working habits – in her own voice. ‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ provides insight into the vision of one of Western Australia’s unique and evocative practitioners.
‘Nalda Searles – Drifting in My Own Land’ presents new works created by Searles in an intensive period of creativity made possible through funding from the Western Australian Government. Thanks to ART ON THE MOVE and Visions of Australia, this memorable exhibition will tour throughout regional Western Australia and nationally between 2009 and 2013.
The national tour of this exhibition is managed by ART ON THE MOVE. This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
Nalda Searles, ‘Siphon’ 2007, common fodder, red wool blanket, cotton thread, 310 x 310 x 380mm.
Photograph: Eva Fernandez, Acknowledgment: Fodder sourced from Peter and Daphne Tye in Dardanup, WA, 2007/2008
Nick Garrett 
