COLD COMFORT CUSHIONS

COVERING EVERYTHING FROM WATERGATE,THE KKK,ORGANI$ED RELIGION,911,SLAVERY AND THE TREATMENT OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS , THESE CUSHIONS LEAVE VERY LITTLE ROOM FOR COMFORT .

CARBON COPY . DOLLS HOUSE

CARBON COPY WAS A PIECE ALSO DONE FOR THE LINCOLN EXHIBITION , IT RELATED TO ANOTHER TIMBER DOLLS HOUSE THAT WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY EXCEPT FOR A SMALL FIGURE CURLED UP ON THE UPPER FLOOR . IT REPRESENTED A WOMAN WAITING FOR NEWS OF A HUSBAND FIGHTING IN THE WAR . THIS SECOND HOUSE MADE FROM INDUSTRIAL FELT  REPRESENTED THE ANSWER WHEN HE NEVER RETURNED . TOTAL DESOLATION. IT ALSO LINKED TO A PIECE CALLED THE HOPE CHEST ...

POSABLE ART FIGURE

FIGURE MADE FROM  DROPSHEET
BY ANDREW DELANEY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS PAINTED ON SLATES

PAINTED IN OILS ON OLD SLATES
BY ANDREW DELANEY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR CAP

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS CAP
MADE BY ANDREW DELANEY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S BOOTS

                                   

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS BOOTS'
'THE RETURN'

" AT FIRST I DID NOT RECOGNISE HIM...HIS EYES SEEMED EMPTY,
FOREVER CHANGED AND I KNEW THEN AND THERE
 THAT HE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME MAN AGAIN..."
                                                                                                                         12TH OF MAY 1865

* JOURNAL EXTRACT :MRS JENNY MAY JACKSON.NORTH CAROLINA 

          BOOTS MADE BY ANDREW DELANEY : WOOL BLANKET AND CLAY/MUD

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW DELANEY

ROOM SERVICE

FORD THEATRE SHADOW PLAY .

LOCK OF LINCOLN'S HAIR

A LOCK OF LINCOLN'S HAIR TAKEN AT HIS DEATHBED .
BY ANDREW DELANEY

CIVIL WAR MAP

CIVIL WAP MAP SHOWING THE BORDER OF NORTH AND SOUTH.
MADE FROM BLANKET AND SUITING BY ANDREW DELANEY

THE HOPE CHEST. CIRCA 1862

THE HOPE CHEST . WHEN ALL HOPE IS GONE .

DOWRY BOX OWNED BY MISS EMILY ANNE FRANKLIN.ATLANTA GEORGIA.
SEALED UPON THE LOSS OF HER FIANCE .ON LOAN FROM THE FRANKLIN FAMILY.
BY ANDREW DELANEY

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS RECORDING

LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS RECORDING

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.". Abraham Lincoln November 1863  .

CAMERA OBSCURA

EARLY CIVIL WAR CAMERA OBSCURAS BY ANDREW DELANEY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SLAVE BLOCKS

         AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SLAVERY BLOCKS .TEXTILE BY ANDREW JOHN DELANEY

BASTILLE DAY 2016

BASTILLE DAY 2016

FOLDED AMERICAN CIVIL WAR FLAG

FOLDED CIVIL WAR FLAG PRESENTED TO THE STUART FAMILY ON THE DEATH OF THEIR SON

 ROBERT JAMES AGE 17 1863 .

EARLY CIVIL WAR FLAG

EARLY CIVIL WAR FLAG BASED ON THE BETSY ROSS DESIGN 

CIVIL WAR DAGUERREOTYPE CHAIR

A  CHAIR COVERED IN BEAUTIFUL OLD DAGUERREOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS PRINTED ON VINTAGE FABRIC AND APPLIED TO OLD WOOL SUITING AND BLANKETS .PART OF THE CIVIL WAR EXHIBITION 2016.

THIS PHOTO BY VIKKI KASSIORAS 

FABRIC APPLIQUE PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A FABRIC PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN DONE FOR THE EXHIBITION
 WHICH OPEN JULY 2 IN COLAC.VICTORIA

LINCOLN EXHIBITION 2016

Opening July 2 nd at the COPACC Performing Arts Centre in Colac as part of the crossxpollination textile/fibrearts festival. Inspired by the American civil war and the internal battle between the North and the South. One of the first wars to be documented with photography the exhibition explores themes of death and loss and asks the question what has changed 150 years on ...

GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE .WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

'GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE , AND MAY FLIGHTS OF ANGELS SING THEE TO THY REST '.

LINCOLN EXHIBITION 2016

LINCOLN EXHIBITION JULY 1ST 2016 

RAINER MARIA RILKE

RAINER MARIA RILKE 1875-1926 . (Commission)

THIS VITAL FLESH

MISSING SANDERSON SKULL

SKULL CASE

LEATHER GLOVE HEART

LEATHER GLOVE HEART 

DEAD POETS TRAVELLING CHEST