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  • First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

  • Back / Not back to school 2018

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  • On the smallness of things, and Where I wander in the Night, at Megan Dickinson Gallery

  • The Costume Designer: Edith Head and Hollywood at Bendigo Art Gallery

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  • Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

  • Crustacea at Woolon 2017

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  • McCall’s black dress

  • Butterick 6299 in Nanas fabric, and my cheat grading up method

  • Recent stitch work – Lichen

  • Sew what you got sewing challenge 2017

  • The Last Word – a prohibition cocktail

  • A touch of noir, Advance 6190 and Simplicity 5294

  • Mycelia:Myceliuim – recent work

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  • My Vintage Suit!

  • Recent adventures, a visit to the museum

  • The Vintage Suit Sew Along – More completed makes

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  • The Vintage Suit Sew Along – completed makes!

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  • The last moments of the Vintage Suit Sew Along

  • Franken pattern jumpsuit, 40s meets 60s

  • My Couturier Vogue Project for Vintage Pledge 2016

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  • The lighthouse and the lichen

  • Vintage Pledge fun in July

  • Vintage Suit Sew Along – catch up and a new completion date

  • Vintage Vogue 273, the Noir 40s dress

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Everyone’s a stranger to me now

Everyone’s a stranger to me now

6 November 2018
by Angela

Everyone’s a stranger to me now, detail of pressed work About the exhibition: I can’t put my finger on it brings together artists that eschew object…

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Unbound for Suffrage125 the final coat in images

Unbound for Suffrage125 the final coat in images

24 October 2018
by Angela

All set, a sweet little domestic Bernina, a beautiful sewing chair Swapping my workspace in The Hub at Otago Polytechnic for DEMO, Whitecliffe College’s project…

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Unbound: Gathering Material for Unbound; Liberating women

Unbound: Gathering Material for Unbound; Liberating women

20 October 2018
by Angela

The Ballroom at Larnach Castle Last month, September, the month to mark 125 of Women’s Suffrage here in Aotearoa New Zealand was a big month,…

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Unbound: Gathering material

Unbound: Gathering material

10 September 2018
by Angela

Press release Unbound: Gathering material, Angela Rowe Larnach Castle and Otago Polytechnic, 21st – 23rd September 2018. Delegates attending the Costume and Textile Association of New…

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Social Bodies; Ocean of Air, in Water, a group exhibition opening next week

Social Bodies; Ocean of Air, in Water, a group exhibition opening next week

26 April 2018
by Angela

Water,  a group exhibition I have work in opens next Thursday! ‘Ma te wai, ka ora tonu ngā mea katoa!’ Through water, all things live! Water…

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Free Speech at Demo this Thursday!

Free Speech at Demo this Thursday!

3 April 2018
by Angela

I have some work in a group show opening this week in Auckland! Full details below… If you follow me on instagram, you might have…

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First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

First contextual assignment from On the Smallness of Things

23 March 2018
by Angela

This post was originally published as part of the contextual component of my Masters in Fine Art, and you can find it here. I will…

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On the smallness of things, and Where I wander in the Night, at Megan Dickinson Gallery

On the smallness of things, and Where I wander in the Night, at Megan Dickinson Gallery

24 December 2017
by Angela

Working on Where I wander in the night A drawing, Where I wander in the night and a hand embroidery, On the Smallness of Things  are two…

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Mycelia:Mycelium, at Geoff Wilson Gallery, the children's workshop

Mycelia:Mycelium, at Geoff Wilson Gallery, the children’s workshop

12 August 2017
by Angela

This week I held a children’s workshop to accompany my installation of Mycelia:Mycelium in the window space at the Geoff Wilson Gallery. It was a…

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Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

Mycelia:Mycelium in the Window Space at The Geoff Wilson Gallery

14 July 2017
by Angela

Window Space Gallery The Geoff Wilson Gallery Toi Te Pito Arts Precinct NorthTec 51 Raumanga Valley Road Whangarei 0110 Mycelia:Myceliuim, 2017, detail. Press Release Mycelia:Mycelium, by…

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