Kathy Slade
Embroidered Monochrome Propositions and Other New Work
September 7-October 12, 2002
Opening September 6, 8PM


Embroidered Monochrome Propositions and Other New Work is a number of minimalist textile works
incorporating Kathy Slade¹s interests in design, decorative art, art historical, literary, and popular
culture sources.

This exhibition features a number of monochrome Œpaintings¹ embroidered by machine, repeating a Œfill
stitch¹ to fill the entire canvas. These works simultaneously draw upon histories of decorative art,
Feminism, technology and labour histories, and minimalist/conceptual practices. With a high sense of
humour and irony, Slade quotes from these seemingly disparate sources to create a sense of the Uncanny,
and to play with ideas of representation and social politics.

Slade continues these investigations in a sculptural vein with her more recent monochromatic giant 
pom-poms. By applying Modernist scale and minimalism to the pom-pom, an object with a purely decorative
function, Slade conflates the two practices much in the same way artist quilt works of the 1970s and 80s
brought textiles into a 'high art' discourse.