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TO FANNY LOVE MAB
The Grimwade Collection
Miegunyah Student Project Award 2023
To Fanny Love Mab draws on the long-held textile habit to connect creative actions, knowledge and understandings, between women, across space and time. Specifically, it joins two women in the Grimwade archive, Fanny Anne Charsley and her botanical illustrations from 1867 and Mab Grimwade and her love of flower arrangement. It privileges textiles, as a tactile cognisant material, to work the archive and join the two women together, like a note between friends.
My thanks go to the collections staff at Melbourne University for the opportunity to be involved in such an exciting award.
Fanny Anne Charsley, artist and author
English 1828–1915, lived in Australia 1856–66
The Wild Flowers around Melbourne
Day & Son, London, 1867
Rare Books Collection, University of Melbourne
Shannon Slee, Studies in Flower Arrangement with Mum's Black Coil Vase.
Image by Astrid Mulder.
Shannon Slee, To Fanny Love Mab #1, digital print on cotton, salvaged coat, thread, 62 x 123 cm.
Fanny Anne Charsley artist and author
English 1828–1915, lived in Australia 1856–66
The Wild Flowers around Melbourne
Day & Son, London, 1867
Rare Books Collection, University of Melbourne
Shannon Slee, Studies in Flower Arrangement with Molly's Round Vase.Image by Astrid Mulder.
Shannon Slee, To Fanny Love Mab #2, digital print on cotton, fabric remnant, thread, 62 x 125 cm.
Fanny Anne Charsley artist and author
English 1828–1915, lived in Australia 1856–66
The Wild Flowers around Melbourne
Day & Son, London, 1867
Rare Books Collection, University of Melbourne
Shannon Slee, Studies of Flower Arrangement in Amanda's Gold Vase, photograph, 2023.
Image by Astrid Mulder
Shannon Slee, To Fanny Love Mab #3, digital print on cotton, fabric remnant, thread, 124 x 62 cm.
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