Plays with dreams- Mrs Appleyard's visions, deceptive writing, "Are you haunted by memories?", lots of sleeping (literal and sexual), dreamy lighting & high exposure

Sexuality- intimacy of female friendships/ relationships, loneliness, trauma bonding, fear of self or partner

Bright colours (creates illusion of happiness and good fortune at the house), costumes are historically inspired but intentionally inaccurate

Subtle exploration of relationships & themes, many things are unseen

Image 2- Nicholas Chevalier (1863), Victoria

Image 3- Tom Roberts (c.1886)

Image 4- Walter Withers (1895)

Aboriginal erasure & dehumanisation in literature- "Casts Aborigines back into the remote past in order for readers to experience them solely as 'an object of aesthetic pleasure'."

Theme of mysterious experiences in the bush- Australia seen as other and fantastical

Jonathan Rayner's 'Gothic rural community'- Australian outback portrayed as violent (degeneracy, masculinity, misogyny, xenophobia), "straight endless roads"

Themes: Dreams, puberty, sexuality

Key characters: Mrs Appleyard (greying hair in a pompadour), Miranda (straight straw yellow hair), Irma (Black ringlets, pretty), Marion (slim), Edith (plain faced), Sara, Miss McCraw (odd fashion sense, grey hair, head consumed by maths)

Silk, dyes, screen printing, stitch

Pattern, colour, form

Inspired by Japanese wabi-sabi

"Fabric forest"

Bacteria & fermented fruit dye and mark fabric

Anne Farren (Image 3,4)

Silk fibres, machine embroidered lace, ink

Relationship between textiles, garments, and the body

Fusing fibres & overworking to disintegration

Fibres likened to skin

Jeannie Mooney (Image 5)

Cloth, textile ink, rust, hand stitching

"Precarious state of nature"

Connection to the ground, nature, life & death

Jane Whiteley (Image 6)

Silk, hand stitching, acid dye, cotton

Human presence of cloth (emotion, energy, memories, wear)

Artists working on ground, arcylic paint is used

Stripes & dotted patterns

Warm colours

Organic forms

Abstract imagery

Elongated forms

Large scale murals

Ambrosia- love returned

Apple, thorn- deceitful charms

Ash-leaved trumpet flower- separation

Butterfly weed- let me go

Catchfly, red- youthful love

Corchorus- impatient of absence

Cowslip, American- you are my divinity

Daisy, red- unconscious

Geranium, oak-leaved- true friendship

Geranium, scarlet- comforting

Gladiolus- strength of character

Harebell- submission, grief

Hemlock- you will be my death

Holly- foresight

Honey, flower- love, sweet & secret

Ivy- friendship, fidelity, marriage

Jasmine, Carolina- separation

Jonquil- I desire a return of affection

Justicia- the perfection of female loveliness

Lichen- dejection, solitude

Lilac, purple- first emotions of love

Lily, day- coquetry

Milkvetch- your presence softens my pains

Mulberry, tree, black- I shall not survive you

Pea, everlasting- an appointed meeting, lasting pleasure

Persimmon- bury me amid nature's beauties

Scilla, white- sweet innocence

Sweet pea- delicate pleasures & departures

Tuberose- dangerous pleasures

Peregian Codex