A Dubbo student is one of 39 chosen to feature in a textile and design exhibition at Rose Hill Gardens.
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Georgina Clarke, who studied through Dubbo Distance Education, has had her textiles major project chosen for the HSC exhibition Texstyle.
“It was just a nice surprise to get the recognition for the hours that were put in,” she said.
Georgina is inspired to study, and hopefully follow a career in textiles and fashion design by her grandmother, who was a tailor.
She took direct inspiration for her jumpsuit from an artwork by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and was mentored by Judy Haling from Judi’s Studio Australia.
She is taking a gap year before studying a Bachelor of Fashion Design and Textiles and a Bachelor of International Studies at the University of Technology Sydney and said although it wasn’t compulsory, textiles and design was a recommended subject.
The jumpsuit was made with silk and beading and Georgina dyed it using an ice dye technique, she also did all the sewing and incorporated weaving and Japanese inspired arashi shibori folds.
She said the inspiration from Klimpt’s artwork came first and the shape of the design and decision to make a jumpsuit came later.
“The category was textile art,” Georgina said.
“I wanted to be a bit different because 90 per cent of students who do textiles do a dress.
“At first I was going to do a dress and then I changed to a jumpsuit.”
Despite the challenge of studying textiles and design by distance education, Georgina said her teacher Dale Faulkner did visit once or twice a term and students could also travel to Dubbo to see her, when she wasn’t teaching other classes.
Aside from not having regular one on one practical guidance, Georgina said although there were allocated distance education hours in her timetable, the sewing room was not necessarily free at that time so she did a lot of the work at home.
As a result Georgina said she had to become self motivating, something she said she wasn’t naturally good at.
However, she said along with visual arts, textiles and design was a passion for her and not only was her major project selected but she also received a score of 93 for the subject.
Georgina said for the school to have run the subject, 10 students would have had to have studied it but it wasn’t that popular.
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I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
