the warm community knitting project
Contribute some stitches to this large-scale artwork.
Remember the Lorax, who spoke for the trees, which we seem to be chopping as fast as we please? Well, we’re down a few Loraxes and up a few coal mines – a thoroughly depressing scenario that the ladies of the Sustainable Environment Arts Movement are hoping to rectify with their community textile project, WARM.
The goal? To use craft-en-masse to create a large-scale, knitted reproduction of two paintings by Lars Stenberg (just here on the left) - one depicting an Australian landscape devastated by coal mining; the other showing the same landscape, regenerated and bursting with life. Everyone is invited to contribute to the woolly work, which will hang in the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery come springtime. You'll have six months to stitch together some native flowers, gum trees, mini wind turbines or even one of each, and reflect on how human types can make positive changes when it comes to global warming.
Scoot on over to the WARM website to grab the patterns and get clickety-clacking.
