Study of Grass - the film
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In creating Study of Grass, Amee was motivated by her fascination with how a modest piece of handmade paper can be converted into a designer garment.
Although now based in the Central West of NSW, ‘home’ for Amee is a remote million-acre cattle station and tourism business in the heart of the Central Australian desert. At the family-run Curtain Springs Paper, Amee is a permanent Artist in Residence. Her role includes developing and producing products in an economical and sustainable way, running workshops and tours, and managing the Artist in Residence Program.
The landscape of the Central Australian Desert is a constant source of inspiration. Amee specialises in making paper from the native grasses of the region.
Study of Grass – papers: Main bodice and skirt – wheat paper from Amee’s NSW property. Additions to bodice and skirt are papers made from – Kerosene Grass with clay (providing the red colour), Spinifex Grass, Kangaroo Grass, Woolly Butt and plain Kersosene Grass paper. Inclusions in the paper include cow poo, bottlebrush flowers, clay and bang tails (the hair cut from a cow’s tail during cattle counts).
Images – Landscapes Amee’s Region
Images – The grasses
Images – Amee making paper