CAROLE GELKER, ARTIST
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  • about me
  • Stitching Stories
  • characters
  • it"s a fairy tale
  • secret pockets
  • a gaggle of girls
  • tell me it"s not true
  • Contact
  CAROLE GELKER, ARTIST
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about me
Interested in mixed media when making my art I use textiles, alternative photography and printmaking. I create stories about my own life experiences, the powerful feelings and fantasies of children and complex relationships. Inspired by fairytales and myths I think of the images as characters acting in a play. My expressive work uses historical images, my own figures and text as metaphors of the past and present.
Reclaiming antique quilts and clothing is a current focus of my work. I tear them apart and reconstruct the pieces keeping the original stitching and adding my own needlework. I often follow the stitching made by the original woman maker. To me antique quilts and repurposed clothing hold the “story” of a woman’s life, her cultural history and creativity. These life stories in the work are often lost to history and become forgotten. It is important to me that I recreate an
aspect of this utilitarian textile work.
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