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The majority of its tapestries are large-scale corporate and public commissions, but there has also been a demand from individual clients keen to own small examples of work.  In order to make its tapestries more widely available, the workshop put together a collection of specially designed small tapestries, to be woven in limited editions.  \r\nPatsy Hely is a ceramicist.  She studied at the National Art School, graduating in 1979.  Her ceramics are delicately executed and are made from porcelain, often based around functional domestic ware, such as tea pots, cups and saucers.  She has an immediately recognisable style, which is typified by the fluid shapes she constructs and her perception of fragility that can be seen throughout her work.  This making of functional domestic ware is no accident, her paramount interest is in the part that objects play in our lives.  When constructing a piece, Hely thinks carefully about how one would hold the object in everyday use, how it is passed from one person to another and how they will look at they move through space during use.  Bottlebrush perfectly demonstrates Hely's use of simple shape and colour.","physicalDescription":"Hand woven Gobelin tapestry panel.  The panel is divided into three vertical strips. The central part shows a green arrow piercing a red and pink block on a white oval. 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I try to make obejcts that need to be handled thoughtfully (and sometimes carefully) so that a sense of physicality is introduced to the object:user nexus'.\nPurchased. Registered File number 1994/1388.\n\nHistorical significance: This series of miniature tapestries was created by the Victorian Tapestry Workshop as a way of widening access to and ownership of their work. A number of artists, such as Stephen Benwell, the ceramic artist, agreed to collaborate on the project. Several of them spent time at the Workshop as artists in residence. \r\nThis project differed from the usual large scale long-term work of the Workshop and provided individual, short-term and intimate challenges for the weavers.","historicalContext":"The Victorian Tapestry Workshop, established by the Government of Victoria in 1976, has an international reputation for the freshness, vitality and technical excellence of its hand-woven tapestries.  The majority of the Workshop's tapestries are large-scale commissions, for display in venues such as arts complexes, schools and universities, corporate foyers and boardrooms. Between 1983 and 1988 the Workshop collaborated with Australian artist Arthur Boyd to produce a monumental tapestry for permanent display in the new Parliament House n Canberra.  There has always been a demand from individual clients eager to own small examples of work and, in order to make their tapestries more widely available, the Workshop put together a collection of specially designed small tapestries to be woven in limited editions.  Designs were commissioned from a number of Australian artists, several of whom spent time with the weavers as artists in residence.","briefDescription":"Miniature tapestry, 'Bottlebrush', designed by Patsy Hely for the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, 1992.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"The Woven Language of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop\", Victorian Tapestry Workshop, p.3"}],"production":"Reason For Production: Exhibition","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"arrow","id":"AAT36976"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.874-1994"],"accessionNumberNum":"874","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1994,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-02-11","recordCreationDate":"2000-03-28","availableToBook":false}}