For many years, Annemieke Mein's art was dismissed as craft, but now the textile artist's work is the feature of a major exhibition celebrating the work she has created throughout her lifetime.
From serious botanical illustrations, to shimmering labyrinths of birds, butterflies, and insect life spilling from her canvases, beloved Gippsland-based textile artist Annemieke Mein has created an extraordinary body of work during her lifetime.
As a latch key kid, Mein kept herself entertained by being creative, sewing, drawing, collecting insects, and studying an old gum tree in the backyard.After leaving school, Mein studied art for a short time and later moved to Sale with her husband Phillip, a doctor, where she decided to pursue art.During the 1960s and 1970s, Australia was culturally coming of age with many baby boomer artists exploring the Australian bush, and the global hippy movement drawing attention to the natural world.
As a migrant woman, making textile bushcraft with a sewing machine, Mein wouldn't be taken seriously as an artist of significance until the 1980s and 1990s. He says the exhibition aims to "give craft a kind of new level of significance and meaning, to say it is important too".Living in Sale, Mein finds much of her inspiration from a bush block located on the Blackall Creek in nearby Stratford that she and her husband own.
"I use quite a powerful microscope so I can see every little nuance on an insect's back or wing, and so I can get that texture and portray it accurately," she says. In some works she exaggerates the scale of her subjects, so the viewer can appreciate the immense detail of their natural design often invisible to the naked eye.
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