Barbara Astman (b. 1950 New York) --- Woven Stories 2023 --- GGs Awards winner 2024
Woven Stories continues Astman’s career-long exploration of society’s excess production and consumption of images and the effects on individual identity, particularly for women. The artist radically reworks consumer-based images by cropping, repeating and flipping fragments, which are arranged into a grid pattern. She created these works by making “film strips” constructed of newspaper images transferred onto packing tape. These strips are then woven together, scanned and the files uploaded to a digital weaving machine which creates a tapestry of overlapping images in an abstracted grid pattern.
Barbara Astman (b. 1950 New York) --- Woven Stories 2023 --- GGs Awards winner 2024
Woven Stories continues Astman’s career-long exploration of society’s excess production and consumption of images and the effects on individual identity, particularly for women. The artist radically reworks consumer-based images by cropping, repeating and flipping fragments, which are arranged into a grid pattern. She created these works by making “film strips” constructed of newspaper images transferred onto packing tape. These strips are then woven together, scanned and the files uploaded to a digital weaving machine which creates a tapestry of overlapping images in an abstracted grid pattern.