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I created a series of playful gifs using the collection and the two cat characters from previous cartoon campaigns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1461163779802-WJXQUVB47MMM4WGXOO54/stacestatue.jpg Animation - DUBAI & DOHA Stacey visits Dubai for the first time. An animated campaign celebrating the launch of a collection in Dubai. Illustration and story by Milo Kossowski, animation by Isobel Knowles & Rebecca Hayes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670827219206-W545YH3LXI7DV3SZ5QMF/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Josh Muir: What's on your mind? Josh Muir, PSYCHOSIS 2019 What’s on your mind? is an eight piece installation by Gunditjmara/Yorta Yorta artist Josh Muir. In collaboration with digital animator Isobel Knowles and experiential design consultancy Art Processors, the exhibition combines elements of audio, animation and graphic design – taking the viewer on an augmented reality journey through the artist’s mind. What’s on your mind? is a personal and intimate exploration into the artist’s journey of self-discovery, shedding light on the complexities of navigating between two very different worlds - that of his Indigenous heritage and the broader colonial landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670905797255-RMTIH1JXT1XK3WU7HWU2/image-asset.gif Animation - Listening to the Universe An event at the Melbourne Planetarium building on a podcast series by Camilla Hannan produced by ABC's Miyuki Jokiranta. The night included presentations by N'Arweet Caroline Briggs who spoke about the Boon Wurrung connection to the stars and astronomer Tanya Hill who plotted a mind bending journey through the known Universe as well as immersive animated visualisations that I created to accompany Camilla Hannan's celestial soundtrack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670934592815-A3GCR5GO7D2ZIZ3KQU1F/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Anna Walker Anna created a felt puppet of her beautiful frog character from her book SNAP! We spent the day together creating fun scenes to celebrate the release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671085244951-EF12AWFZ88V22X97AV5M/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Stargazing For Beginners Trailer This is a trailer for a six part series created for ABC iView in 2018. Built upon the podcast of the same name by Camilla Hannan originally created for ABC Radio National's Earshot, this series explores personal connections to the stars through personal anecdotes, traditional stories and scientific explanations. Original Podcast written and created by Camilla Hannan Visuals directed and animated by Isobel Knowles Produced by Sally Chesher Sound Design by Camilla Hannan Full credits at end of trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671140991325-DYGZQ4VI33QWHGP1WYN1/Passenger_Freeway.jpg Animation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1433762054169-QV0JX6WIGPCPM05G42EC/ss-despondant.gif Animation This Penguin is feeling a little lonely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670821606451-SDGKP5NWFZ11RO3INVW5/image-asset.octet-stream Animation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1435843994267-YT3DX8T7HC8NNITPSLNJ/image-asset.png Animation Click to see video https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1435844146044-OQQB0T5JTFPYMVQAZFAD/Storybox1.jpeg Animation - Story Box Library Song The full length Storybox Library Theme song. Storybox is a Melbourne based online provider of children's stories read to video by authors and celebrities. Music created by Mark Monnone and Tim Harvey (and I even sing some bvs in there!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1435846043830-ISLT7GNWMP9C77SL0BDU/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Kimbra Album Promo A youtube promotion for Kimbra's debut album, Vows. This stop-motion animation combines the aesthetic of the album art with an interpretation of Kimbra's 'costume' in her appearance in Gotye's video for Somebody That I Used To Know. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1435847009558-OVZOIWCTBEUWC8RLCH6D/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Familia Moja Children's Home Video for a crowd funding campaign to raise money for Familia Moja to construct a bakery in a small community in Kenya. The bakery is now built and providing bread for the community! The stop-motion animation was created using tissue paper shapes on a lightbox. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1435847095086-GD0I546DTMKEN1BVWS9Q/image-asset.jpeg Animation - Catch of the Day music video Pineapple squids, waving fronds, dislocated skeletons and water babes swimming in synchrony to a song produced by Sally Seltmann. 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Viewed with a VR headset you become a character in the story and observe the surroundings as the driver takes you from the airport to your new home, talking to you and helping you adjust to your new life. Principle funding by Screen Australia, Produced by Film Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808772936-Q8CCGSJC845CE6CA6GK7/2mga_001_01_X1_0175.jpg Artworks - Can't Do Without You A photographic series by Van Sowerwine and Isobel Knowles commissioned for STAGES: A photographic response to the pandemic, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. Each of us built a set of the room we spent most of our lockdown time in. The objects and furniture which served as our predominant landscape became so hauntingly familiar. We constructed these miniatures from memory rather than our usual fastidious studying and measuring, limiting ourselves to materials we already had. Each of these spaces is also the place from which we looked out into the rest of the world. As an artistic duo with an animation practice and a shared studio we are used to spending large amounts of time in the same room. These two spaces were all we saw of each other’s lives for most of the year. Image: The world came rushing in (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808893063-N01AQN846D017AUS64JZ/Night+Creatures+1+Knowles+Sowerwine+wide.jpg Artworks - Night Creatures Night Creatures is an augmented reality experience celebrating the energy, connection, and intimacy of the film festival queue via animated cinema-goers who take the form of fruit bats. Night Creatures was the recipient of the inaugural MIFF XR Commission developed and supported by Ling Ang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808346287-UMFJAX6A90IAQ7ZNCFMQ/close+up+george.jpg Artworks - Out In The Open A research based animated story created and screened at the Queen Victoria Market about a trader’s connection to the market and the sentiments existing below the surface of the hustle and bustle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2b8477fd-2579-4366-827d-075726423f52/Decorating+2.jpg Artworks - Make it stand out Factory or Fiction: The Great Bubble and Squeak Factory, Artplay, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/add07c3d-b307-450c-a171-9655af5bf2b6/See+You+in+the+Soup+SML-05.jpg Artworks - Make it stand out The Story-Go--Round installation, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671143488368-KZRR6KHAQQ98Z1JDXU6I/cat-and-isobel-studio-1024x616.jpeg Artworks - 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Passenger A 360˚ stop-motion animated film set in the back of a taxi in a world made from cardboard. Viewed with a VR headset you become a character in the story and observe the surroundings as the driver takes you from the airport to your new home, talking to you and helping you adjust to your new life. Principle funding by Screen Australia, Produced by Film Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671141410054-MI8N0IVJBXETNZ584BKR/Passenger1_IsobelKnowlesVanSowerwine.jpg Isobel and Van - Passenger A 360˚ stop-motion animated film set in the back of a taxi in a world made from cardboard. Viewed with a VR headset you become a character in the story and observe the surroundings as the driver takes you from the airport to your new home, talking to you and helping you adjust to your new life. Principle funding by Screen Australia, Produced by Film Camp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808893063-N01AQN846D017AUS64JZ/Night+Creatures+1+Knowles+Sowerwine+wide.jpg Isobel and Van - Night Creatures Night Creatures is an augmented reality experience celebrating the energy, connection, and intimacy of the film festival queue via animated cinema-goers who take the form of fruit bats. Night Creatures was the recipient of the inaugural MIFF XR Commission developed and supported by Ling Ang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808746531-AMZA6WTIBBTIHEEXWAAZ/2mga_001_01_X1_0175.jpg Isobel and Van - Can't Do Without You A photographic series created in response to the pandemic. We recreated rooms in our houses in miniature and photographed them in the studio. Commissioned by the Monash Gallery of Art https://www.isobelknowles.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/15a3f2d1-b0e3-4229-9bea-ceeeb08587b3/2iso-biio-pic800.gif Contact - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/3e72ad6d-c802-4610-9b0e-a38c6484a08d/Lying+in+Wait+baths_X1A8681.jpg Contact https://www.isobelknowles.com/maureenwattspots daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1721424509401-09T3ZXHE965E160ZI8NR/bigpots3.jpg Maureen Watts Pots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599878333-DXELLK2LO572JXOPL4VY/life-and-times.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Maureen The artist sitting with her masterpieces, Julia St Creative Space, July 17, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9d2ee4c6-538e-4ffb-be41-73dc781ac5e6/bigpots3.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Alligator Pot 1980 Earthenware A recreation of a long-lost pot belonging to the late Adrian Knowles, Isobel’s grandfather, who generously contributed to the purchase of a kiln. Maureen describes this and the Unicorn Pot as the “two best pots I’ve ever made” in a letter to Mr Knowles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2806ed09-f9ca-4d01-bdec-1181e39154e5/bigpots11.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Unicorn Pot 1987, Earthenware This work was created for the late Adrian Knowles. Maureen describes this one and the Alligator Pot as her “two best pots I’ve ever made” in a letter to Mr Knowles. She says "I had to learn how to draw horses (they're such a funny shape) to be able to paint this one, which accounts for its legs being somewhat out of kilter." She said of the peacocks, "They were a bit dull so I slapped some real gold lustre on them (18 carat I suppose) and brightened them up a bit." And a PS, " The pot is made of some very special white clay I had made up by the manufacturer. It's the first pot EVER fired from it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/7fbd2ee0-27e6-4adb-8b80-06816cc3e24c/bigpots5.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Butterfly Jug 1989, Earthenware Many images of butterflies can be found across different pieces of Maureen’s work. These butterflies are laid out almost like an entomologist’s case, each one based on a real species of butterfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/25e83a97-2050-4dd5-aabc-620eb790f76a/bigpots4.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Starry Night Bowl c. 1986, Earthenware Indicative of many decorated serving bowls made with elaborate bases. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/66991a0f5ffa283199be6f90/66991a3485fe0c65e815771c/1723988106103/ Maureen Watts Pots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/bc176846-ebdd-48b2-bb2d-a94119a3f50b/bigpots14.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Family Vase 1988, Earthenware Maureen loved painting people and families. There are many significant pieces she made over the years that are painted from photographs of people grouped together in a pose. These family moments made permanent as ceramic objects gives them gravitas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/321f409c-57ee-434b-917d-a94dd18a0066/bigpots7.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Block Canisters 1982 Earthenware Maureen described these as being very difficult to create. A great lot of effort went into matching top to bottom and ensuring they fit together despite the shrinking that happens upon drying and firing clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/4e4deed1-7b2e-41e1-9c6d-9c58202bb557/bigpots6.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Flamboyant Strawberry Bowl c. 1982, Porcelein This bowl was one of a series created at art school once she was finally let loose creatively. Up until this point, students were strictly educated in conservative ceramic skills. Maureen wanted to make something as flamboyant and unrestricted as possible and poured all of her pent up ideas and enthusiasm into these pots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/b257b751-4963-4fb7-bfd0-89e083d95c7e/bigpots10.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Candlestick 1988, Earthenware This candlestick has lived in our home for decades. A favourite at dinner parties and during blackouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/5494696f-78f0-462b-81ee-8173a9048673/bigpots22.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Out to Sea 1998-2001 Made for Isobel’s 21st birthday. A fantastical sailing ship setting sail safely into life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/6027b872-92dc-4955-860c-fc4c45a8a528/bigpots20.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Goddess 2012, Earthenware A birthday gift for Isobel. This figure is likely a Greek goddess - probably Athena, goddess of warfare and wisdom as well as handicraft, courage, inspiration, mathematics, and strength amongst other things. Maureen loved Greek mythology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/96b002da-627b-49cb-8a00-088e7f66611a/bigpots1.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Thinking of Tolstoy 2014, Earthenware Maureen was incredibly well read. Her library was vast and eclectic. She was often inspired by stories she read. It’s not known which Tolstoy work she was thinking of—if anyone has ideas, please write them in the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988177568-7RUMFH97B3ZC3W9CK4EB/MW14+Reef2+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0150.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Reef 2 2014, Earthenware To compliment the underwater wonder of the Life and Times of the Humble Sardine Maureen created this series of coral-like candlesticks called Reef. From the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA (Portland Arts Centre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988178149-5HCIBG7GZH2HILU9XZ2T/MW14+Reef3+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0147.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Reef 3 2014, Earthenware To compliment the underwater wonder of the Life and Times of the Humble Sardine Maureen created this series of coral-like candlesticks called Reef. From the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA (Portland Arts Centre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/704eba3e-86b2-46eb-8db1-9c0d39787490/bigpots19.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Candle Ladies 2014, Earthenware Maureen created many little figures holding candles. As with the bottle people, a crowd would sit on a table at a market or in a shop waiting to be discovered as the spitting image of a friend or family member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/fd94863b-6f28-47c6-90b9-c9af516f21bc/bigpots21.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Beaky Candle Carriers 2013-2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987663104-X7XL7WJON60NZIEUX4WN/LMW14+Reef+MMW01+We+could+tell+by+the+glint+in+his+eye+that+Ronald+had+plenty+to+say+RMW14+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0101.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Friendly Pots 2001, 2014, Earthenware Left: Reef, 2014 Centre: We could tell by the glint in his eye that Ronald had plenty to say, 2001 Right: Candle person, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/8b6cded8-a237-4149-a501-3f08ddee54d5/bigpots23.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Bottlemen 1987, Earthenware A staple of Maureen’s work, these charming bottle people represent hundreds and hundreds of similar people. Crowds of little bottle people would always be on sale at the markets in Daylesford in the 80s, each one a different face waiting to be recognised as a doppelgänger of someone’s aunt or nephew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/07ae7a0f-86e3-416a-b24a-02a1e85483c4/bigpots9.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Toby Jugs 1988, 1989, Earthenware These two Toby Jugs are part of a series of similar characters. Maureen kept these two because they were portraits of people she knew. The woman is Wendy who worked on the cashier at the Daylesford supermarket and the man is her boss, Mr Clough, who owned the supermarket and afforded us all kinds of concessions in times of need. They were both always cheerful and generous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/97c36629-6457-4a8c-a757-e57bfda23b21/bigpots15.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Small Pots 1986-1988, Earthenware The patterns on these three pieces show a motif common in Maureen’s work of layered coloured patterns. For every one you see here there could be thousands floating around. The studio shelves were always full of such items. No two pots were the same design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/a43500bc-972b-41ad-840d-0d097df5484a/bigpots16.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Incense Pots 1987-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/6994afc2-6059-4202-ac3a-e31de293a18d/bigpots18.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Small Pots c. 1985, Earthenware A beautiful example of Maureen's layered patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599852315-TXUDRGUW7BYTJ1KEUKIL/13+small+pots+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0361.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Small Pots 2013, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599859680-5VHD2V4EHHRALDBHKUFY/89+dancing+bowl+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0403.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Dancing Bowl 1989, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599853423-3Z0N8R3JFKLJZMJ4R6KA/14+butterfly+planter+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0619.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Butterfly Planter c. 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599869507-7DIPRJAITK4JF9IQLA80/L13-planter-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0389.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Beanbag Planter 2013, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9d72b3ed-48d0-42d8-8e63-093fae5b4b26/bigpots13.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Long Vases 2012, Earthenware These are part of a series of tall vases made following the purchase of a clay roller. They’re also part of a collection of experiments in creating monotone relief work. They were created by rolling clay in a press and moulding them around some PVC pipe then assembling and decorating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/278c087c-40e1-4c25-8f41-94a3fc89de65/bigpots2.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Christmas Tree Pot c. 1984, Earthenware A rare enormous pot - a scale that Maureen only did a small number of. This pot has held the family Christmas tree every year since the mid 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599864097-48SKY1DCV5QS7TVIY120/bigpots24.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Illustrated Jug c. 1983, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599859239-DNO632Z4M1FPNO2FXX4H/88+suzannah+and+the+elders+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0312.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Suzannah and the Elders 1988, Earthenware Maureen often used ceramics as a storytelling device. This jug tells the story of Suzannah and the Elders from the Book of Daniel. Suzannah is spied on by lecherous powerful men of her community. When she refuses their advances, they unsuccessfully try blackmailing her, then they publicly accuse her of adultery whereby she is sentenced to death. Young Daniel cross-examines the men who describe conflicting trees at the scene of the ‘crime’ so are found to have lied. Suzannah’s name is cleared and instead the Elders are sentenced to death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/15d45054-9a0c-4178-829c-7320a3629893/bigpots12.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Early Student Work c. 1981, Stoneware These were pieces made at Ballarat College of the Arts. Maureen found the disciplined and regimented style dull and tedious, managing to slip a few curly corners and animal paintings on these classic stoneware shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985947153-M1W3RY40W69LPZUUO0FE/image-asset.jpeg Maureen Watts Pots - Family Portrait Plate c. 1988, Earthenware Painted from a photograph of Maureen, her sister, cousins, aunties and grandmothers in the backyard of one of their relative’s houses in Melbourne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722598607395-EK2PUMEBG6AO1LR21ZWD/bigpots17.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Platter c.2005, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599914567-UQNZ0H5IJ9EE5CLXPFH0/david+birdbath+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0454.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Birdbath by the Sea c. 2014, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599853233-CFMKGMPCBBSGIHZ2CG8E/05+alf+k+goes+fishing+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0549.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Alf K Goes Fishing 2007, Earthenware Maureen created personalised pots for many of her friends. She was inspired by the lives of people in her community and they appeared often as characters in her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599870979-U1G6NEXZ9LAPYQJ17JMF/maybe+79+happy+birthday+john+knowles+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0375.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Happy Birthday John Knowles c. 1982, Earthenware A mug made for Isobel's dad, John to celebrate his birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599852273-O47SMOW09Y62WJYO5JDG/6+14+15+12+birds+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0367.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Bird Pots 2006-2015, Earthenware Maureen was incredibly delighted by birds. She sat with them in her backyard every morning, observing them and interacting with them. They are a strong motif that dances across her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599857934-2946PQHDT3GK3484HL3M/80s+cookie+jars+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0546.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Biscuit Jars c. 1983, Earthenware These represent a cohort of interesting shaped large vessels, staples of Maureen’s playful domestic object work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599858411-8CYUXF2N206XCZH0Y9I8/87+pasterol+jug+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0556.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Pastoral Jug 1987, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599872723-MEMWNTTF3J9I075X6TG2/MW06+07+small+bowls+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0380.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Small Bowls 2006-2007, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599865914-1EB34PW93R0RSBLCL6C3/egg+cups+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0612.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Egg Cups 2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600568190-DGWW20TVCTDGHJGEH9U2/apples+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0090.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Apples c. 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599865104-PBALHZKB4LOXK36WQZU7/hanging+beaads+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0582.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Bead Curtain c. 2012, Earthenware Maureen made hundreds and hundreds of beads, selling them as individual pieces and arranging them into stacks for jewellery or Christmas decorations to give to her friends and family. The most significant piece she created was a bead curtain for her home in Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599881545-RM4TMGDAU1UTEUUUZTUC/tree+bells+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0630.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Tree Bells c. 2014 Created from leftover eggcups and beads these lovely bells hung in the quince tree in the back yard, like colourful fruit that elevated the bare tree in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/086b3162-360c-48f9-9a2e-3cc6fea1e936/bigpots8.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Elaborate Planter for Isobel 2012, Earthenware A green planter for greenery created as a birthday gift for Isobel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/b7a0e599-7c49-4fc2-a992-43f77808529a/bigpots25.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Hanging Planter 2014, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987746859-29K6LC3M2IXH9X9IDEQE/MW12+planters+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0176.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Planters 2012, Earthenware Combining two great loves, ceramics and gardening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599882879-MQ5ISWP6J9RNARVPQ009/unglazed+planters+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0597.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Planters c. 2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987682394-7HQHW3SB1F646HVAQU90/masks-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0103.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Masked Figures 1987–2002, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987692925-AAHIUPNKWF30X3RNYXBY/MW00+Then+suddenly+without+warning+Aunty+Glad+had+Joy+Boy+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0099.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Then suddenly without warning Aunty Glad had Joy Boy 2000, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987730797-RYC6Z1VRB0AMJTRZZFXX/MW14+fabrications6+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0163.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Fabrications: 6 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987707924-Y7221UR6OHY90NZUMGFZ/MW14+circles5+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0154.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Circles: 5 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987760582-0IQYDMFIZ881F46EJX0F/MW14+fabrications12+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0156.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Fabrications: 12 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988058814-YTZH4ROPHSXJK5N5H8QS/MW85+tessas+house+burns+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0141.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Tessa's House Burns 1985, Earthenware This dramatic scene shows Maureen’s friend Tessa’s house burning. The neighbourhood dogs are attacking the firefighters and other community members fighting the blaze. The family is fleeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988072812-1K69WT5HM8AAKZJ6SJWT/MW86+nativity+circus+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0132.jpg Maureen Watts Pots - Nativity Circus 1986, Earthenware Baby Jesus is being flung around on the trapeze while all the animals, Wise Men and other attendees look on in awe. https://www.isobelknowles.com/maureen-watts-paper daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723986982575-60WYEBCRCZK98NGRCGGH/girls_X1A9489.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Convent Girls at Nun’s Beach 2024, Linocut print, Watercolour drawing Maureen discovered this wonderful photograph in the archives while working at History House and decided to pay homage to the photographer with this linocut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722604973723-G6YK5ISEUPJUTWEGC5FA/monoprint_X1A9500.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723986982575-60WYEBCRCZK98NGRCGGH/girls_X1A9489.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Convent Girls at Nun’s Beach 2024, Linocut print, Watercolour drawing Maureen discovered this wonderful photograph in the archives while working at History House and decided to pay homage to the photographer with this linocut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987031400-15FG07D51DYG7ETJDL11/print_X1A9485.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - The rock is the hen and her nest, Bridgewater 2019, Linocut print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599856429-0ELFMJ0QAS6S2USRO6VZ/19-rock-woman-viscera-bridgewater-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0592.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Rock, Woman, Viscera. Bridgewater 2019, Linocut print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599854659-O566CV25PUGBJU9HJUQB/17+Lake+View++mamashow_00001_01_X1_0608.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Lake View 2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981592083-6LS7TZ1VREXSY4ZRM6G1/monoprint_X1A9488.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Cape Nelson c.2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981620724-TXC3NVJJI64DU2H11VET/monoprint_X1A9500.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Cape Nelson c. 2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722596766963-OWLSYL564139NYYH3A14/selfportrait_X1A9486.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Self Portrait as a Child c. 2018, Linocut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599862322-K74Z31U10N4A947WS1QQ/aunties-IMG_4096.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - The Handbag Aunts 2019, Linocut Print This is a portrait of Maureen’s three formidable Aunts with their hats and handbags and their even more formidable shadows creeping up the wall behind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984879902-JJZ6E4B2LP82FB0AUHGI/1-dread.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Dread 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. "Last year I received a diagnosis of breast cancer for my birthday. After hitting the gin with my stalwart friend Jill, I felt as if I had the whole business under my belt and could get on with the projects I had in hand. Not true. Every night for a week or so, I found myself lying in bed at night absolutely rigid with a deep sense of impending doom. Dread. It grips you, smothers you and won’t let go. This print is about that experience. It doesn’t come close, but might, if it were at least twenty metres square and accompanied by booming, screeching sound effects." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1721456055461-1UPWU4BPHR8DU2RYA293/2%2Bgetting%2Ba%2Bbackbone.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Getting a backbone 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”I don’t know if I was more scared of my ancestors materialising than I was of cancer, but I got a grip, started to grow a backbone and took heart that I wasn’t the only person to have to face such horrors. A big thank you to the women who were silently watching my back. You were great.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1721456026084-E3F3OPIARUK9S6X4U5GC/4%2Bscrutiny.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Scrutiny, or, You Can Leave Your Socks On 2020, Linocut Not since giving birth have I been obliged to expose so much of my body to strangers. Bright lights shining a spotlight on my flabby bits, being photographed inside and out … Horrible. What could I say? Do you want just a little peek or the full frontal? Have you ever met a nipple quite like this one? Ah well, my only consolation was that I’d lived in this body quite a long time and frankly, like an old car, it showed its mileage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985280091-B1V46Z5GZDC2XHLNUBFQ/3-celebrating-67-years.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Celebrating 67 years of a double-breasted birthday suit 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks "My daughter was driving me to the hospital in Warrnambool for my mastectomy when she suddenly pulled over and stopped the car. It was a really beautiful morning with the sun rising over the hill and shining through the mist drifting off the paddocks. 'Let me take a photo of your last day with two breasts.' So it was out of the car and a photo-shoot on the road with that lovely morning as a backdrop. I am so lucky to have a daughter who knows how to melt stress and fear right off the bone with humour and love." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984470822-OCKG88F1VJDJLYBABOKO/5-last-chance-to-run-away.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Last chance to run away 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”Wanted to, nearly did, really, really nearly did. That’s the sort of coward I am. With my daughter holding my hand, I went in. Glad I did. They were very kind, those people with sharp things behind those scary doors.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984194377-586GVCHIYASVQZMX0I33/6-a-sudden-lightness-of-being.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - A Sudden Lightness of Being 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”This print shows is how I felt when what I thought was the worst of the worst turned out to be painless and done with. Whoopee!!! Give that surgeon a big red balloon!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984347417-EKPEB6P77N39AEWTTQTY/7-chairs-in-nectarine-tree.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Chairs in nectarine tree 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. This image was created during chemotherapy treatment. ”An artist friend, Carmel had suggested I start drawing again to visualise this alternate reality. So, I gave up sorting screws in the shed in the middle of the night and instead, sat in the dark outside, drawing what was going on. The chairs in these prints started to emerge as a sort of umbilical cord linking me back to the real world.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984884115-9WBNRAJ654E1FSDJIGCT/8-the-interview.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - The Interview 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. “Those chairs have a certain stern presence. Are they the backbone aunties? They are looking at me like it’s a job interview. Am I up to the challenge?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984879903-7T1N3967UOM984OS4HVG/9-celestial-chairs.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Celestial Chairs 2020, Linocit From the collection, Distinguishing Marks And there they go! Off to the stars and I wish I could go with them. The sky is so large and my problems so infinitely small. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984882415-C4TZPK1FM0R3NPSVXCKB/10-how-to-become-a-fuzzhead.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - How to Become a Fluffhead 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”My hair fell out and, hooray, hooray, no more chin plucking! Then, one morning, I saw the real me in the mirror and, horrors, realised that I had turned into an old man! Bald head, wrinkles, blotches. Hey! this wasn’t what I had in mind.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984594302-9N8HFZVF8HFX7WI893PC/11-swallowed-by-a-chair.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Swallowed by a chair 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”One of the many embarrassing moments of recovering from chemo. Lucky my daughter was there or there might have been a little accident. This isn’t the place to detail other surprising moments that took me back to babyhood. I’m not telling. But, there were tears.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984196956-XG5W9RSC7YIHRMZKLIEN/12-popping-up-like-a-toadstool-.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Popping up like a toadstool after the rain 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”What I liked about this photograph was that my feet were pointed one way and my body the other way, as if I were at a crossroad, looking back to where I had started and ready to take off to a new and interesting phase of my life.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600457154-M969LLGODU7R7RBV9IPJ/chickens_X1A9491.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Egg Label 2021, Linocut Designed to be a handprinted label for a local egg producer. The label project didn’t eventuate but this beautiful print exists nonetheless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987097645-WKV64Q30ZNDQM914MGYI/newyork_X1A9503.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - New York Collage Created from a dramatic photo of New York City as seen from the Empire State Building taken by Maureen’s close friend Jill Perkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987165309-M5SH5KW7DHPSE58A3MHR/snail_X1A9498.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Snail Shell c.1990 A study of a snail's shell as seen through a microscope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722604864728-VPBYXOLPXJT64P9B56IL/moongate_X1A9487.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Moongate 2023, Watercolour pencil on paper An extension of the series of garden works found in Amongst the Trees, an artist’s book of paintings created in 2023/24. The series was created in response to an exhibition callout at Portland Library and as a distraction while recovering from cancer treatment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985477711-4QUXR3ID9LU2YBHTDTR4/collage_X1A9502.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Collage c.2010, Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985646517-R6G8CMR6LM793042CI1L/23+postcards+from+the+chemo+ward+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0600.jpg Maureen Watts Works on Paper - Views from the Chemical Ward 2023, Watercolour drawing These pictures were created during Maureen’s second round of chemotherapy during which she looked out at rooftops from the top floor of the cancer ward in Warrnambool. https://www.isobelknowles.com/maureen-watts-textiles daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981430732-X9LRCX28Q3RGPH60P8YO/panels-IMG_4100.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - The Life and Times of the Humble Sardine 2014, Crochet lace These phenomenal crocheted lace panels tell the story of light becoming flesh becoming spirit as told through the eyes of the humble sardine. The first panel is phytoplankton photosynthesising light into matter. The second panel is a feeding frenzy of sardines eating plankton, turning matter into flesh. The third panel shows birds eating the sardines and returning to the skies, returning the spririt of the sardine to light. Each panel took over 450 hours to create. These panels will continue to be accessible to the public after the exhibition in the Glenelg Shire Council Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981430732-X9LRCX28Q3RGPH60P8YO/panels-IMG_4100.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - The Life and Times of the Humble Sardine 2014, Crochet lace These phenomenal crocheted lace panels tell the story of light becoming flesh becoming spirit as told through the eyes of the humble sardine. The first panel is phytoplankton photosynthesising light into matter. The second panel is a feeding frenzy of sardines eating plankton, turning matter into flesh. The third panel shows birds eating the sardines and returning to the skies, returning the spririt of the sardine to light. Each panel took over 450 hours to create. These panels will continue to be accessible to the public after the exhibition in the Glenelg Shire Council Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600497234-YVHA6K3FXZP09VPQVFFP/ocean+chaos+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0208.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - You and Me and the Dancing Sea 2015, Crochet lace Crochet category winner and Scarf of the Year at the 2015 Geelong Scarf Festival. This scarf is a celebration of life by the sea in Portland, especially celebrating the magnificence of Bridgewater Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599879420-YMZ0UUMOBIJIA8UUYRLL/rebecca+scarf+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0295.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Scarf for Rebecca c.2014, Crochet lace The motifs in this scarf are inspired by the microscopic world of diatoms which grow by photosynthesis, providing food for the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599882671-26DFBWYEPTVFUHJB0DLG/scarf-for-colleen.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Scarf for Colleen c. 2017, Crochet lace A scarf made for Maureen's sister Colleen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982557485-T4N2Q2M2NDRXL2OFW019/watching+rabbits+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0283.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Beware Little Rabbits c.2006, Embroidery Maureen made this pouch for Isobel to keep her valuable treasures safe from the eyes of thieves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599771977-U26CZVS53DASSJQY32JO/24+peacock+bag+front+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0588.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Peacock Handbag 2024, Crochet lace Created as a gift for Isobel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599868222-U3U318YAXBT01NYQ0S85/isobel+dress+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0221.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Dress for Isobel 2014, Crochet lace This was one of her first experiments with crochet lace technique. Never one to do things by halves, Maureen created shaped panels using this already complex process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982426756-1RLA858RFCRQ228170V8/2024+yolk+in+progress+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0278.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Work in Progress Yolk 2024, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599879842-KDE4LNZUI44PQD2N34ML/strawberry+necklace+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0626.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Strawberry Necklace c. 2016, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982508886-Q4RTXIKC1N1JWEXRMS6I/necklaces+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0292.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Necklaces C. 2015 Crochet / ceramic beads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982448425-42OYKQ06JSHHTINJ4YF7/2019+breasts+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0231.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Breasts 2020, Crochet lace Maureen describes this piece: “After I had my breast off in 2018 it was as if there was no longer a barrier between my heart and the world. Love flowed in and out of me like it never had before, and I felt explosive joy at being alive, and extreme gratitude for all those surrounding me and being kind to me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982470085-LC7LSTEKWTBTYGA7B672/seagrass+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0271.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Seagrass c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600650038-GLK65L5CUY7NYLA4GZ7Q/frothy+ocean+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0248.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Bridgewater Studies c. 2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600545387-4IMTBAX72HLZ9E4LJTXZ/frothy+ocean+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0241.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Thoughts on Water c. 2015, Crochet lace These pieces were created from photographs taken at Bridgewater Bay of water swirling around the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988509838-EVPOKBJ70HF0IZZJH4OQ/frothy-ocean-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0255.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Bridgewater Study in Black and White c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599864685-ZDPQDXMYWITKMBVNN0NT/bridgewater+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0579.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Bridgewater c. 2013, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982489355-XO3TM1IN4Y303ZRC411S/fragile+sea+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0258.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Fragile Sea c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722596763657-JZNYZHG4K65U26ONCLTG/bird-and-rock-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0238.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Feeding Time c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981852783-C8JPCB4NHQ572OL3P1K2/angel+cushion+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0601.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Angelic Cushion c. 2005, Embroidered Cushion A densely embroidered cushion created for Isobel. On a family trip to Europe in 1993 Maureen was very taken with the ceilings of cathedrals. This cushion is an homage to the many angelic scenes impossibly painted in vaulted ceilings across Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982478033-ABW2Z15KN48XHM7PTC9G/cutwork+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0263.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Cutwork Sampler c.2017, Cutwork A sampler made for a textile workshop Maureen conducted at Julia Street Creative Space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722602195990-2AEZPPURTP86JNXHP7MN/quilt+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0229.jpg Maureen Watts Textiles - Quilt for Isobel 1990, Embroidery Created between May 1989 and December 1990, this quilt contains scenes from Isobel’s childhood—her first day as a baby, the street we lived on in Hepburn Springs, the Christmas tree with a family version of the 12 days of Christmas, poems she liked, mottos to live by and lots of funny characters in between. https://www.isobelknowles.com/isobel-knowles daily 1.0 2023-03-08 https://www.isobelknowles.com/spacer24 daily 0.75 2023-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671338298868-D6AB2K7I3DGQWH2RTU9B/tissue.jpg https://www.isobelknowles.com/kuwaii daily 0.75 2023-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1433747458225-UH6S3OT770RSXOOVGH6S/kuwaiistill7.jpg Kuwaii - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.isobelknowles.com/featured-work-copy daily 0.75 2023-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670886274507-6RVRTAB81P3XSNSUYLMJ/Wide-Big-World-smaller.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670886686767-6VHBWZL53KXXC7JUWFWB/wbw-pages.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2d802193-4702-40d3-a536-afff67a1825e/tamethebeast-home.jpeg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out TAME THE BEAST Documentary - Lorimer Mosely https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1433762054823-S39DXFQPQ0APQZR6CRCF/ss-legs.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out IMPRESS A PENGUIN Promotion - Penguin Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1577577572609-NUGMZCWFONKOSJHRY4LN/643785283638_03140403_image164303_hd720.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out CHINESE STRAIGHT Story - SBS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/81b9881a-eb69-44be-864a-614f6ed34f48/Storybox7.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out STORYBOX LIBRARY THEMESONG Music Video - Storybox Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/be118fa8-c9c1-47a1-b23e-b7e5753f1915/kuwaii-blue.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out VIRGIN AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE FASHION WEEK Promotion - Kuwaii https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/13b03d4c-a100-4b29-b292-91270cd6862e/storyline.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out THE STORYLINE EXPRESS Exhibition - State Library of Victoria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670829738326-A03B9MA0B1V810A6INS7/Layne+still+5.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out DANCING ON THE WAVES Story - Melbourne Sports Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/e35b1700-09fc-487e-bb08-0703b40573db/dancingcacctus.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/85c1507e-b5e8-40e0-8294-249cfd58188e/HDC.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out HOSPO DRINKING CULTURES Documentary - Monash University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670909982603-YLLKC4NFJ0MJIEIDONQN/Tiddalik+full+movie+square_00271.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out TIDDALIK Story - Melbourne Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/c50f734d-da33-4135-8cfa-2cf6145119ed/dancingcacctusflip.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670808746531-AMZA6WTIBBTIHEEXWAAZ/2mga_001_01_X1_0175.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out CAN’T DO WITHOUT YOU Exhibition - Monash Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670901843309-1V9C5G7G35AM5ZTSA8HY/champ.png Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out PLAY Promotion - Champ! 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Promotion - Anna Walker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1433763561748-FVJ99VU3GX2L4PJZ8OE3/Catch+of+the+Day_00237.jpg Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out CATCH OF THE DAY Music Video - Sally Seltmann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/4447880a-33d5-4757-a2b9-4dd9c4cefa50/kuwaii-skky.gif Featured work (Copy) - Make it stand out VIRGIN AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE FASHION WEEK Promotion - Kuwaii https://www.isobelknowles.com/page-mw-cat daily 0.75 2024-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671338298868-D6AB2K7I3DGQWH2RTU9B/tissue.jpg Maureen Watts catalogue test https://www.isobelknowles.com/getintouch-2 daily 0.75 2023-01-17 https://www.isobelknowles.com/page-2-2 daily 0.75 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1671338298868-D6AB2K7I3DGQWH2RTU9B/tissue.jpg https://www.isobelknowles.com/soft-stories daily 0.75 2023-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/cbbf32f5-eb5c-42dd-9f6e-6c1a64a28e95/storyline.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out Storyline Express mechanical installation at the State Library of Victoria, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1670821606467-FLZEUMZOUJFO14KP0AAO/image-asset.jpeg Soft Stories - Make it stand out Elephant’s Gym On A Limb prop collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1491df8e-598c-4ed8-a82b-4009b7fa8a1f/books.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out Soft Stories Books: Too Much for Turtle and Owl Know How https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2045bfc4-9653-4d02-9925-f80978328d2e/See+You+in+the+Soup+SML-24.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out See You In The Soup installation at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/aea48948-4f40-4793-b410-f4b1f91eed04/sofstories_line_transparent.png Soft Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/add07c3d-b307-450c-a171-9655af5bf2b6/See+You+in+the+Soup+SML-05.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out The Story-Go--Round installation, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/99b1162c-43ad-4a63-8ec4-0a35dd2f660f/See+You+in+the+Soup+SML-17.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out See You In The Soup exhibition detail, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2b8477fd-2579-4366-827d-075726423f52/Decorating+2.jpg Soft Stories - Make it stand out Factory or Fiction: The Great Bubble and Squeak Factory, Artplay, 2016 https://www.isobelknowles.com/maureen-watts daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723986982575-60WYEBCRCZK98NGRCGGH/girls_X1A9489.jpg Maureen Watts - Convent Girls at Nun’s Beach 2024, Linocut print, Watercolour drawing Maureen discovered this wonderful photograph in the archives while working at History House and decided to pay homage to the photographer with this linocut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987031400-15FG07D51DYG7ETJDL11/print_X1A9485.jpg Maureen Watts - The rock is the hen and her nest, Bridgewater 2019, Linocut print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599856429-0ELFMJ0QAS6S2USRO6VZ/19-rock-woman-viscera-bridgewater-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0592.jpg Maureen Watts - Rock, Woman, Viscera. Bridgewater 2019, Linocut print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599854659-O566CV25PUGBJU9HJUQB/17+Lake+View++mamashow_00001_01_X1_0608.jpg Maureen Watts - Lake View 2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981592083-6LS7TZ1VREXSY4ZRM6G1/monoprint_X1A9488.jpg Maureen Watts - Cape Nelson c.2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981620724-TXC3NVJJI64DU2H11VET/monoprint_X1A9500.jpg Maureen Watts - Cape Nelson c. 2017, Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722596766963-OWLSYL564139NYYH3A14/selfportrait_X1A9486.jpg Maureen Watts - Self Portrait as a Child c. 2018, Linocut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599862322-K74Z31U10N4A947WS1QQ/aunties-IMG_4096.jpg Maureen Watts - The Handbag Aunts 2019, Linocut Print This is a portrait of Maureen’s three formidable Aunts with their hats and handbags and their even more formidable shadows creeping up the wall behind https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984879902-JJZ6E4B2LP82FB0AUHGI/1-dread.jpg Maureen Watts - Dread 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. "Last year I received a diagnosis of breast cancer for my birthday. After hitting the gin with my stalwart friend Jill, I felt as if I had the whole business under my belt and could get on with the projects I had in hand. Not true. Every night for a week or so, I found myself lying in bed at night absolutely rigid with a deep sense of impending doom. Dread. It grips you, smothers you and won’t let go. This print is about that experience. It doesn’t come close, but might, if it were at least twenty metres square and accompanied by booming, screeching sound effects." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1721456055461-1UPWU4BPHR8DU2RYA293/2%2Bgetting%2Ba%2Bbackbone.jpg Maureen Watts - Getting a backbone 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”I don’t know if I was more scared of my ancestors materialising than I was of cancer, but I got a grip, started to grow a backbone and took heart that I wasn’t the only person to have to face such horrors. A big thank you to the women who were silently watching my back. You were great.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1721456026084-E3F3OPIARUK9S6X4U5GC/4%2Bscrutiny.jpg Maureen Watts - Scrutiny, or, You Can Leave Your Socks On 2020, Linocut Not since giving birth have I been obliged to expose so much of my body to strangers. Bright lights shining a spotlight on my flabby bits, being photographed inside and out … Horrible. What could I say? Do you want just a little peek or the full frontal? Have you ever met a nipple quite like this one? Ah well, my only consolation was that I’d lived in this body quite a long time and frankly, like an old car, it showed its mileage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985280091-B1V46Z5GZDC2XHLNUBFQ/3-celebrating-67-years.jpg Maureen Watts - Celebrating 67 years of a double-breasted birthday suit 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks "My daughter was driving me to the hospital in Warrnambool for my mastectomy when she suddenly pulled over and stopped the car. It was a really beautiful morning with the sun rising over the hill and shining through the mist drifting off the paddocks. 'Let me take a photo of your last day with two breasts.' So it was out of the car and a photo-shoot on the road with that lovely morning as a backdrop. I am so lucky to have a daughter who knows how to melt stress and fear right off the bone with humour and love." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984470822-OCKG88F1VJDJLYBABOKO/5-last-chance-to-run-away.jpg Maureen Watts - Last chance to run away 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”Wanted to, nearly did, really, really nearly did. That’s the sort of coward I am. With my daughter holding my hand, I went in. Glad I did. They were very kind, those people with sharp things behind those scary doors.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984194377-586GVCHIYASVQZMX0I33/6-a-sudden-lightness-of-being.jpg Maureen Watts - A Sudden Lightness of Being 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”This print shows is how I felt when what I thought was the worst of the worst turned out to be painless and done with. Whoopee!!! Give that surgeon a big red balloon!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984347417-EKPEB6P77N39AEWTTQTY/7-chairs-in-nectarine-tree.jpg Maureen Watts - Chairs in nectarine tree 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. This image was created during chemotherapy treatment. ”An artist friend, Carmel had suggested I start drawing again to visualise this alternate reality. So, I gave up sorting screws in the shed in the middle of the night and instead, sat in the dark outside, drawing what was going on. The chairs in these prints started to emerge as a sort of umbilical cord linking me back to the real world.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984884115-9WBNRAJ654E1FSDJIGCT/8-the-interview.jpg Maureen Watts - The Interview 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. “Those chairs have a certain stern presence. Are they the backbone aunties? They are looking at me like it’s a job interview. Am I up to the challenge?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984879903-7T1N3967UOM984OS4HVG/9-celestial-chairs.jpg Maureen Watts - Celestial Chairs 2020, Linocit From the collection, Distinguishing Marks And there they go! Off to the stars and I wish I could go with them. The sky is so large and my problems so infinitely small. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984882415-C4TZPK1FM0R3NPSVXCKB/10-how-to-become-a-fuzzhead.jpg Maureen Watts - How to Become a Fluffhead 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”My hair fell out and, hooray, hooray, no more chin plucking! Then, one morning, I saw the real me in the mirror and, horrors, realised that I had turned into an old man! Bald head, wrinkles, blotches. Hey! this wasn’t what I had in mind.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984594302-9N8HFZVF8HFX7WI893PC/11-swallowed-by-a-chair.jpg Maureen Watts - Swallowed by a chair 2020, Linocut print From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”One of the many embarrassing moments of recovering from chemo. Lucky my daughter was there or there might have been a little accident. This isn’t the place to detail other surprising moments that took me back to babyhood. I’m not telling. But, there were tears.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723984196956-XG5W9RSC7YIHRMZKLIEN/12-popping-up-like-a-toadstool-.jpg Maureen Watts - Popping up like a toadstool after the rain 2020, Linocut From the collection, Distinguishing Marks. ”What I liked about this photograph was that my feet were pointed one way and my body the other way, as if I were at a crossroad, looking back to where I had started and ready to take off to a new and interesting phase of my life.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600457154-M969LLGODU7R7RBV9IPJ/chickens_X1A9491.jpg Maureen Watts - Egg Label 2021, Linocut Designed to be a handprinted label for a local egg producer. The label project didn’t eventuate but this beautiful print exists nonetheless. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987097645-WKV64Q30ZNDQM914MGYI/newyork_X1A9503.jpg Maureen Watts - New York Collage Created from a dramatic photo of New York City as seen from the Empire State Building taken by Maureen’s close friend Jill Perkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987165309-M5SH5KW7DHPSE58A3MHR/snail_X1A9498.jpg Maureen Watts - Snail Shell c.1990 A study of a snail's shell as seen through a microscope. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722604864728-VPBYXOLPXJT64P9B56IL/moongate_X1A9487.jpg Maureen Watts - Moongate 2023, Watercolour pencil on paper An extension of the series of garden works found in Amongst the Trees, an artist’s book of paintings created in 2023/24. The series was created in response to an exhibition callout at Portland Library and as a distraction while recovering from cancer treatment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985477711-4QUXR3ID9LU2YBHTDTR4/collage_X1A9502.jpg Maureen Watts - Collage c.2010, Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985646517-R6G8CMR6LM793042CI1L/23+postcards+from+the+chemo+ward+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0600.jpg Maureen Watts - Views from the Chemical Ward 2023, Watercolour drawing These pictures were created during Maureen’s second round of chemotherapy during which she looked out at rooftops from the top floor of the cancer ward in Warrnambool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599878333-DXELLK2LO572JXOPL4VY/life-and-times.jpg Maureen Watts - Maureen The artist sitting with her masterpieces, Julia St Creative Space, July 17, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9d2ee4c6-538e-4ffb-be41-73dc781ac5e6/bigpots3.jpg Maureen Watts - Alligator Pot 1980 Earthenware A recreation of a long-lost pot belonging to the late Adrian Knowles, Isobel’s grandfather, who generously contributed to the purchase of a kiln. Maureen describes this and the Unicorn Pot as the “two best pots I’ve ever made” in a letter to Mr Knowles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2806ed09-f9ca-4d01-bdec-1181e39154e5/bigpots11.jpg Maureen Watts - Unicorn Pot 1987, Earthenware This work was created for the late Adrian Knowles. Maureen describes this one and the Alligator Pot as her “two best pots I’ve ever made” in a letter to Mr Knowles. She says "I had to learn how to draw horses (they're such a funny shape) to be able to paint this one, which accounts for its legs being somewhat out of kilter." She said of the peacocks, "They were a bit dull so I slapped some real gold lustre on them (18 carat I suppose) and brightened them up a bit." And a PS, " The pot is made of some very special white clay I had made up by the manufacturer. It's the first pot EVER fired from it." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/7fbd2ee0-27e6-4adb-8b80-06816cc3e24c/bigpots5.jpg Maureen Watts - Butterfly Jug 1989, Earthenware Many images of butterflies can be found across different pieces of Maureen’s work. These butterflies are laid out almost like an entomologist’s case, each one based on a real species of butterfly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/25e83a97-2050-4dd5-aabc-620eb790f76a/bigpots4.jpg Maureen Watts - Starry Night Bowl c. 1986, Earthenware Indicative of many decorated serving bowls made with elaborate bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/bc176846-ebdd-48b2-bb2d-a94119a3f50b/bigpots14.jpg Maureen Watts - Family Vase 1988, Earthenware Maureen loved painting people and families. There are many significant pieces she made over the years that are painted from photographs of people grouped together in a pose. These family moments made permanent as ceramic objects gives them gravitas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/321f409c-57ee-434b-917d-a94dd18a0066/bigpots7.jpg Maureen Watts - Block Canisters 1982 Earthenware Maureen described these as being very difficult to create. A great lot of effort went into matching top to bottom and ensuring they fit together despite the shrinking that happens upon drying and firing clay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/4e4deed1-7b2e-41e1-9c6d-9c58202bb557/bigpots6.jpg Maureen Watts - Flamboyant Strawberry Bowl c. 1982, Porcelein This bowl was one of a series created at art school once she was finally let loose creatively. Up until this point, students were strictly educated in conservative ceramic skills. Maureen wanted to make something as flamboyant and unrestricted as possible and poured all of her pent up ideas and enthusiasm into these pots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/b257b751-4963-4fb7-bfd0-89e083d95c7e/bigpots10.jpg Maureen Watts - Candlestick 1988, Earthenware This candlestick has lived in our home for decades. A favourite at dinner parties and during blackouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/5494696f-78f0-462b-81ee-8173a9048673/bigpots22.jpg Maureen Watts - Out to Sea 1998-2001 Made for Isobel’s 21st birthday. A fantastical sailing ship setting sail safely into life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/6027b872-92dc-4955-860c-fc4c45a8a528/bigpots20.jpg Maureen Watts - Goddess 2012, Earthenware A birthday gift for Isobel. This figure is likely a Greek goddess - probably Athena, goddess of warfare and wisdom as well as handicraft, courage, inspiration, mathematics, and strength amongst other things. Maureen loved Greek mythology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/96b002da-627b-49cb-8a00-088e7f66611a/bigpots1.jpg Maureen Watts - Thinking of Tolstoy 2014, Earthenware Maureen was incredibly well read. Her library was vast and eclectic. She was often inspired by stories she read. It’s not known which Tolstoy work she was thinking of—if anyone has ideas, please write them in the book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988177568-7RUMFH97B3ZC3W9CK4EB/MW14+Reef2+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0150.jpg Maureen Watts - Reef 2 2014, Earthenware To compliment the underwater wonder of the Life and Times of the Humble Sardine Maureen created this series of coral-like candlesticks called Reef. From the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA (Portland Arts Centre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988178149-5HCIBG7GZH2HILU9XZ2T/MW14+Reef3+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0147.jpg Maureen Watts - Reef 3 2014, Earthenware To compliment the underwater wonder of the Life and Times of the Humble Sardine Maureen created this series of coral-like candlesticks called Reef. From the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA (Portland Arts Centre). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/704eba3e-86b2-46eb-8db1-9c0d39787490/bigpots19.jpg Maureen Watts - Candle Ladies 2014, Earthenware Maureen created many little figures holding candles. As with the bottle people, a crowd would sit on a table at a market or in a shop waiting to be discovered as the spitting image of a friend or family member. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/fd94863b-6f28-47c6-90b9-c9af516f21bc/bigpots21.jpg Maureen Watts - Beaky Candle Carriers 2013-2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987663104-X7XL7WJON60NZIEUX4WN/LMW14+Reef+MMW01+We+could+tell+by+the+glint+in+his+eye+that+Ronald+had+plenty+to+say+RMW14+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0101.jpg Maureen Watts - Friendly Pots 2001, 2014, Earthenware Left: Reef, 2014 Centre: We could tell by the glint in his eye that Ronald had plenty to say, 2001 Right: Candle person, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/8b6cded8-a237-4149-a501-3f08ddee54d5/bigpots23.jpg Maureen Watts - Bottlemen 1987, Earthenware A staple of Maureen’s work, these charming bottle people represent hundreds and hundreds of similar people. Crowds of little bottle people would always be on sale at the markets in Daylesford in the 80s, each one a different face waiting to be recognised as a doppelgänger of someone’s aunt or nephew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/07ae7a0f-86e3-416a-b24a-02a1e85483c4/bigpots9.jpg Maureen Watts - Toby Jugs 1988, 1989, Earthenware These two Toby Jugs are part of a series of similar characters. Maureen kept these two because they were portraits of people she knew. The woman is Wendy who worked on the cashier at the Daylesford supermarket and the man is her boss, Mr Clough, who owned the supermarket and afforded us all kinds of concessions in times of need. They were both always cheerful and generous. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/97c36629-6457-4a8c-a757-e57bfda23b21/bigpots15.jpg Maureen Watts - Small Pots 1986-1988, Earthenware The patterns on these three pieces show a motif common in Maureen’s work of layered coloured patterns. For every one you see here there could be thousands floating around. The studio shelves were always full of such items. No two pots were the same design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/a43500bc-972b-41ad-840d-0d097df5484a/bigpots16.jpg Maureen Watts - Incense Pots 1987-2005 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/6994afc2-6059-4202-ac3a-e31de293a18d/bigpots18.jpg Maureen Watts - Small Pots c. 1985, Earthenware A beautiful example of Maureen's layered patterns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599852315-TXUDRGUW7BYTJ1KEUKIL/13+small+pots+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0361.jpg Maureen Watts - Small Pots 2013, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599859680-5VHD2V4EHHRALDBHKUFY/89+dancing+bowl+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0403.jpg Maureen Watts - Dancing Bowl 1989, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599853423-3Z0N8R3JFKLJZMJ4R6KA/14+butterfly+planter+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0619.jpg Maureen Watts - Butterfly Planter c. 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599869507-7DIPRJAITK4JF9IQLA80/L13-planter-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0389.jpg Maureen Watts - Beanbag Planter 2013, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9d72b3ed-48d0-42d8-8e63-093fae5b4b26/bigpots13.jpg Maureen Watts - Long Vases 2012, Earthenware These are part of a series of tall vases made following the purchase of a clay roller. They’re also part of a collection of experiments in creating monotone relief work. They were created by rolling clay in a press and moulding them around some PVC pipe then assembling and decorating. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/278c087c-40e1-4c25-8f41-94a3fc89de65/bigpots2.jpg Maureen Watts - Christmas Tree Pot c. 1984, Earthenware A rare enormous pot - a scale that Maureen only did a small number of. This pot has held the family Christmas tree every year since the mid 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599864097-48SKY1DCV5QS7TVIY120/bigpots24.jpg Maureen Watts - Illustrated Jug c. 1983, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599859239-DNO632Z4M1FPNO2FXX4H/88+suzannah+and+the+elders+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0312.jpg Maureen Watts - Suzannah and the Elders 1988, Earthenware Maureen often used ceramics as a storytelling device. This jug tells the story of Suzannah and the Elders from the Book of Daniel. Suzannah is spied on by lecherous powerful men of her community. When she refuses their advances, they unsuccessfully try blackmailing her, then they publicly accuse her of adultery whereby she is sentenced to death. Young Daniel cross-examines the men who describe conflicting trees at the scene of the ‘crime’ so are found to have lied. Suzannah’s name is cleared and instead the Elders are sentenced to death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/15d45054-9a0c-4178-829c-7320a3629893/bigpots12.jpg Maureen Watts - Early Student Work c. 1981, Stoneware These were pieces made at Ballarat College of the Arts. Maureen found the disciplined and regimented style dull and tedious, managing to slip a few curly corners and animal paintings on these classic stoneware shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723985947153-M1W3RY40W69LPZUUO0FE/image-asset.jpeg Maureen Watts - Family Portrait Plate c. 1988, Earthenware Painted from a photograph of Maureen, her sister, cousins, aunties and grandmothers in the backyard of one of their relative’s houses in Melbourne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722598607395-EK2PUMEBG6AO1LR21ZWD/bigpots17.jpg Maureen Watts - Platter c.2005, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599914567-UQNZ0H5IJ9EE5CLXPFH0/david+birdbath+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0454.jpg Maureen Watts - Birdbath by the Sea c. 2014, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599853233-CFMKGMPCBBSGIHZ2CG8E/05+alf+k+goes+fishing+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0549.jpg Maureen Watts - Alf K Goes Fishing 2007, Earthenware Maureen created personalised pots for many of her friends. She was inspired by the lives of people in her community and they appeared often as characters in her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599870979-U1G6NEXZ9LAPYQJ17JMF/maybe+79+happy+birthday+john+knowles+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0375.jpg Maureen Watts - Happy Birthday John Knowles c. 1982, Earthenware A mug made for Isobel's dad, John to celebrate his birthday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599852273-O47SMOW09Y62WJYO5JDG/6+14+15+12+birds+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0367.jpg Maureen Watts - Bird Pots 2006-2015, Earthenware Maureen was incredibly delighted by birds. She sat with them in her backyard every morning, observing them and interacting with them. They are a strong motif that dances across her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599857934-2946PQHDT3GK3484HL3M/80s+cookie+jars+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0546.jpg Maureen Watts - Biscuit Jars c. 1983, Earthenware These represent a cohort of interesting shaped large vessels, staples of Maureen’s playful domestic object work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599858411-8CYUXF2N206XCZH0Y9I8/87+pasterol+jug+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0556.jpg Maureen Watts - Pastoral Jug 1987, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599872723-MEMWNTTF3J9I075X6TG2/MW06+07+small+bowls+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0380.jpg Maureen Watts - Small Bowls 2006-2007, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599865914-1EB34PW93R0RSBLCL6C3/egg+cups+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0612.jpg Maureen Watts - Egg Cups 2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600568190-DGWW20TVCTDGHJGEH9U2/apples+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0090.jpg Maureen Watts - Apples c. 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599865104-PBALHZKB4LOXK36WQZU7/hanging+beaads+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0582.jpg Maureen Watts - Bead Curtain c. 2012, Earthenware Maureen made hundreds and hundreds of beads, selling them as individual pieces and arranging them into stacks for jewellery or Christmas decorations to give to her friends and family. The most significant piece she created was a bead curtain for her home in Portland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599881545-RM4TMGDAU1UTEUUUZTUC/tree+bells+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0630.jpg Maureen Watts - Tree Bells c. 2014 Created from leftover eggcups and beads these lovely bells hung in the quince tree in the back yard, like colourful fruit that elevated the bare tree in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/086b3162-360c-48f9-9a2e-3cc6fea1e936/bigpots8.jpg Maureen Watts - Elaborate Planter for Isobel 2012, Earthenware A green planter for greenery created as a birthday gift for Isobel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/b7a0e599-7c49-4fc2-a992-43f77808529a/bigpots25.jpg Maureen Watts - Hanging Planter 2014, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987746859-29K6LC3M2IXH9X9IDEQE/MW12+planters+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0176.jpg Maureen Watts - Planters 2012, Earthenware Combining two great loves, ceramics and gardening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599882879-MQ5ISWP6J9RNARVPQ009/unglazed+planters+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0597.jpg Maureen Watts - Planters c. 2015, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987682394-7HQHW3SB1F646HVAQU90/masks-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0103.jpg Maureen Watts - Masked Figures 1987–2002, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987692925-AAHIUPNKWF30X3RNYXBY/MW00+Then+suddenly+without+warning+Aunty+Glad+had+Joy+Boy+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0099.jpg Maureen Watts - Then suddenly without warning Aunty Glad had Joy Boy 2000, Earthenware https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987730797-RYC6Z1VRB0AMJTRZZFXX/MW14+fabrications6+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0163.jpg Maureen Watts - Fabrications: 6 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987707924-Y7221UR6OHY90NZUMGFZ/MW14+circles5+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0154.jpg Maureen Watts - Circles: 5 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723987760582-0IQYDMFIZ881F46EJX0F/MW14+fabrications12+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0156.jpg Maureen Watts - Fabrications: 12 2014, Earthenware Created for the 2014 exhibition Connecting Threads at CEMA, an exhibition of work by Maureen and her daughter Isobel Knowles, Rebecca Marriott and her mother Bernice Morrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988058814-YTZH4ROPHSXJK5N5H8QS/MW85+tessas+house+burns+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0141.jpg Maureen Watts - Tessa's House Burns 1985, Earthenware This dramatic scene shows Maureen’s friend Tessa’s house burning. The neighbourhood dogs are attacking the firefighters and other community members fighting the blaze. The family is fleeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988072812-1K69WT5HM8AAKZJ6SJWT/MW86+nativity+circus+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0132.jpg Maureen Watts - Nativity Circus 1986, Earthenware Baby Jesus is being flung around on the trapeze while all the animals, Wise Men and other attendees look on in awe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/7b28d1d6-8242-4c3e-b6cd-31038aebee12/gallery_X1A9543.jpg Maureen Watts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981430732-X9LRCX28Q3RGPH60P8YO/panels-IMG_4100.jpg Maureen Watts - The Life and Times of the Humble Sardine 2014, Crochet lace These phenomenal crocheted lace panels tell the story of light becoming flesh becoming spirit as told through the eyes of the humble sardine. The first panel is phytoplankton photosynthesising light into matter. The second panel is a feeding frenzy of sardines eating plankton, turning matter into flesh. The third panel shows birds eating the sardines and returning to the skies, returning the spririt of the sardine to light. Each panel took over 450 hours to create. These panels will continue to be accessible to the public after the exhibition in the Glenelg Shire Council Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600497234-YVHA6K3FXZP09VPQVFFP/ocean+chaos+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0208.jpg Maureen Watts - You and Me and the Dancing Sea 2015, Crochet lace Crochet category winner and Scarf of the Year at the 2015 Geelong Scarf Festival. This scarf is a celebration of life by the sea in Portland, especially celebrating the magnificence of Bridgewater Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599879420-YMZ0UUMOBIJIA8UUYRLL/rebecca+scarf+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0295.jpg Maureen Watts - Scarf for Rebecca c.2014, Crochet lace The motifs in this scarf are inspired by the microscopic world of diatoms which grow by photosynthesis, providing food for the ocean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599882671-26DFBWYEPTVFUHJB0DLG/scarf-for-colleen.jpg Maureen Watts - Scarf for Colleen c. 2017, Crochet lace A scarf made for Maureen's sister Colleen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982557485-T4N2Q2M2NDRXL2OFW019/watching+rabbits+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0283.jpg Maureen Watts - Beware Little Rabbits c.2006, Embroidery Maureen made this pouch for Isobel to keep her valuable treasures safe from the eyes of thieves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599771977-U26CZVS53DASSJQY32JO/24+peacock+bag+front+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0588.jpg Maureen Watts - Peacock Handbag 2024, Crochet lace Created as a gift for Isobel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599868222-U3U318YAXBT01NYQ0S85/isobel+dress+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0221.jpg Maureen Watts - Dress for Isobel 2014, Crochet lace This was one of her first experiments with crochet lace technique. Never one to do things by halves, Maureen created shaped panels using this already complex process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982426756-1RLA858RFCRQ228170V8/2024+yolk+in+progress+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0278.jpg Maureen Watts - Work in Progress Yolk 2024, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599879842-KDE4LNZUI44PQD2N34ML/strawberry+necklace+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0626.jpg Maureen Watts - Strawberry Necklace c. 2016, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982508886-Q4RTXIKC1N1JWEXRMS6I/necklaces+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0292.jpg Maureen Watts - Necklaces C. 2015 Crochet / ceramic beads https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982448425-42OYKQ06JSHHTINJ4YF7/2019+breasts+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0231.jpg Maureen Watts - Breasts 2020, Crochet lace Maureen describes this piece: “After I had my breast off in 2018 it was as if there was no longer a barrier between my heart and the world. Love flowed in and out of me like it never had before, and I felt explosive joy at being alive, and extreme gratitude for all those surrounding me and being kind to me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982470085-LC7LSTEKWTBTYGA7B672/seagrass+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0271.jpg Maureen Watts - Seagrass c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600650038-GLK65L5CUY7NYLA4GZ7Q/frothy+ocean+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0248.jpg Maureen Watts - Bridgewater Studies c. 2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722600545387-4IMTBAX72HLZ9E4LJTXZ/frothy+ocean+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0241.jpg Maureen Watts - Thoughts on Water c. 2015, Crochet lace These pieces were created from photographs taken at Bridgewater Bay of water swirling around the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723988509838-EVPOKBJ70HF0IZZJH4OQ/frothy-ocean-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0255.jpg Maureen Watts - Bridgewater Study in Black and White c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599864685-ZDPQDXMYWITKMBVNN0NT/bridgewater+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0579.jpg Maureen Watts - Bridgewater c. 2013, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982489355-XO3TM1IN4Y303ZRC411S/fragile+sea+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0258.jpg Maureen Watts - Fragile Sea c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722596763657-JZNYZHG4K65U26ONCLTG/bird-and-rock-mamashow_00001_01_X1_0238.jpg Maureen Watts - Feeding Time c.2015, Crochet lace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723981852783-C8JPCB4NHQ572OL3P1K2/angel+cushion+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0601.jpg Maureen Watts - Angelic Cushion c. 2005, Embroidered Cushion A densely embroidered cushion created for Isobel. On a family trip to Europe in 1993 Maureen was very taken with the ceilings of cathedrals. This cushion is an homage to the many angelic scenes impossibly painted in vaulted ceilings across Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1723982478033-ABW2Z15KN48XHM7PTC9G/cutwork+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0263.jpg Maureen Watts - Cutwork Sampler c.2017, Cutwork A sampler made for a textile workshop Maureen conducted at Julia Street Creative Space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722602195990-2AEZPPURTP86JNXHP7MN/quilt+mamashow_00001_01_X1_0229.jpg Maureen Watts - Quilt for Isobel 1990, Embroidery Created between May 1989 and December 1990, this quilt contains scenes from Isobel’s childhood—her first day as a baby, the street we lived on in Hepburn Springs, the Christmas tree with a family version of the 12 days of Christmas, poems she liked, mottos to live by and lots of funny characters in between. https://www.isobelknowles.com/maureen-watts-catalogue-essay daily 0.75 2024-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1722599878333-DXELLK2LO572JXOPL4VY/life-and-times.jpg Maureen Watts Catalogue Essay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.isobelknowles.com/chinese-straight daily 0.75 2024-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/d42d11d9-f244-47dd-a4fe-711a7a0fef0e/pool-white.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9f9cfb7a-b854-480c-8bf9-3355d1981b7f/credits-bottom.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/e03e01a8-b7d6-44bd-91aa-dfbb19a82aa3/header-animation-1.gif Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/83bb8dee-9461-4ec3-a9a2-88c8e45313b6/credits-top-6.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/18d8f473-cf0d-471c-bf59-0a886ac0a038/mascara-white.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/e5179f8d-3412-43ce-a87c-3f135d417f12/long-hair-dance_3a_arsgqks.gif Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/eaef54ce-684d-4d7c-aae7-83d63e921e4f/lineup-white.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/9020c26c-5ed2-408c-b90b-ca4658941bf8/pool-end_ofsvddb.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/eb06ec07-a4d0-4b59-a50d-5d23e2404cba/imagination-white.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/0e63f642-74df-4313-a7dc-f935cb0de160/charlies-white.png Chinese Straight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/1725793374042-9HDYEVLXPLLGBOC7WBDN/chinese-straight-headerv2-mr.jpg Chinese Straight https://www.isobelknowles.com/im-so-shellfish daily 0.75 2024-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/2dbc611b-5925-47b8-a753-54cc8030027f/jordana-scallop.gif I'm So Shellfish - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55711b6de4b01ef431bd9977/96ccb0e8-6515-4f75-a79b-7b023b3bd2da/so+shellfish+title+small.png I'm So Shellfish - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.isobelknowles.com/quiz daily 0.75 2024-11-26