Tuesday | 25 February - Tuesday | 11 March

open Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm | Sat & Sun: 11am - 6pm 

POLLINATRIX

Women of Ideas in Botany and Horticulture.

Overlooked, forgotten, ignored, fallen out of fame or fashion, eclipsed by others.

A textile presentation by Artist Irene Pagram featuring ten women, including Colac born Margaret Stones.

"Pollinatrix celebrates the work of 10 extraordinary women who have had an influence on my life and arts practice. The art pieces are an homage to the body of work each particular woman achieved, especially in the fields of botany and horticulture.

My art embeds a personal narrative and a connection between us, our past and our surroundings. I am particularly interested in womens’ work and in the environment. Eco-dyeing repurposed and fair-trade fabrics with renewable resources such as gum leaves and garden plants, weed species and vegetable scraps with the dye cauldron as mordant and fixative, sits well with my efforts to live in as sustainable way as possible."

Irene Pagram works with sustainable natural dyes on silk, wool and paper, often to make a ground for drawing, or a base for hand stitching. Irene’s renewed love of textile practice came about when she read India Flint’s Eco-Colour and discovered there was a better way to practice natural dyeing than using the toxic metal powder mordants and salt fixatives she had learned in the past.  

This led her to take early retirement from her long career in local government arts and culture management to establish a studio-based arts practice in the Otways hinterland. 

More info about the artist can be found here: CV-Irene-Pagram-2024.docx(DOCX, 134KB)

This exhibition complements International Women's Day celebrations at COPACC, including the

Colac & District Family History Group's

High Tea 

Tuesday | 4 March | 1.30pm

and 

COPACC's

Brown Women Comedy

Saturday | 8 March | 6.30pm

Tickets for both events are still available now, simply click on the event name above to book your spot!