DOUBLE TROUBLE Maker Profile Special: Seeing Double - DVD

CLEARANCE
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Watch Jan and Jean working from the same design source but creating very different pieces of work.See their design processes, sketchbooks and the artists working with various media and techniques. 

This film demonstrates their very different responses to the contrasting features, rich colours, heat and space of Australia, especially the Red Centre and Lake Mungo. The colour palette and textural surfaces of Greek islands as well as other places closer to home also continue to excite them and inform their work. 

Jan Beaney celebrates the red interior of Australia and the contrasting sharp greens of new growth in relation also to burned trees, and rocks, in incredible sketchbook studies of differing light conditions. She then captures the essence of these landscapes in vibrant, richly detailed hand and machine embroidered cloths. 

Jean Littlejohn takes her pavement walks into a new dimension of lace-like panels, lustrous hangings, strips and detailed braids, many based on her travels further afield. They may display more exotic colours and textures but are still grounded in rhythms and patterns that are universal.

Seeing Double is an early look into the artistic work of Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn.  Capturing some intimate moments in the studio and garden, loaded with examples of their finished work, books and methods, it’s a highly imaginative look at some of the work produced by two of the UK’s finest contemporary embroidery and mixed media artists.

96 mins
Available in PAL (UK/EU) format only.