JUXTAPOSITION - Fusion of Art & Food @ Stopping Place Cafe, Nannup

A retired Visual Arts educator and tireless Arts Advocate, Thelma Cluning has over 50 years experience exploring her passion for Art. A regular participant in public and private exhibitions, Thelma also works on larger scale themed installations and regularly runs workshops. Whilst principally a Surface Designer with an obsession for free-motion machine stitch, Thelma also fearlessly explores a wide range of 2D and 3D media.

 

Utilising recycled materials and widely sourced embellishment for her Arts practice, Thelma values the qualities of historically diverse designs, textures and fabric construction. In utilising these, she aims to allow the differing qualities of past treasures to come to the fore, in a fresh and contemporary context.

 

Also having a passion for constructing Collage, Thelma uses this medium to explore Design principles, creating works on a variety of subjects and in varying scale. Her practice of transforming her collaged works into canvas prints, proves to be popular. Thelma occasionally also produces canvas prints utilising images of original textiles artworks which have been sold, thus revisiting some of the transformative work she has created in the past.

 

Exhibiting her work in Stopping Place Cafe during BRAT25 allows Thelma to draw the best from the historical setting, whilst channelling a contemporary aesthetic that will grace the walls with colour, visual harmony and some unexpected surprises.

 

JUXTAPOSITION - The Fusion of Art & Food will indeed bring visual art vibrancy into the realm of excellence in cafe dining at the Stopping Place!