The First Cloud, 1986
petit point embroidery in hand-cut wood-veneer panel mount in a found wooden frame
3.7 x 7.5 cm ; 3.6 x 7.7 cm; 3.5 x 7.6 cm (each petit point); 29 x 67 cm (frame)
signed, dated and inscribed with title ‘Narelle Jubelin 1986/’The First Cloud’ (on the reverse)
Provenance
Mori Gallery, Sydney
Private collection, Sydney
Exhibited
His Story: A Small Reminder, Mori Gallery, Sydney, 1986
‘When Narelle Jubelin mounted her His Story: A Small Reminder exhibition at the Mori Gallery in 1986, the message was as apt as its materialism. The show consisted of embroidered miniatures of historic monuments around Sydney, mounted in sardonically ornate frames from second-hand shops. Everyone appreciated the point of the petit point. The ironic twist of a woman artist exploiting the patriarchy’s trivialisation of embroidery as “mere” domestic art to brings its own heroic pretensions down to size was like a breathe of fresh air in the ponderous atmosphere of contemporary High Art” (Vivienne Johnson, ‘People Deliver Art’, Narelle Jubelin - Trade Delivers People, Aperto, La Biennale di Venezia, 1990, exhibition catalogue, unpaginated)
Image courtesy of the artist and The Commercial, Sydney. Photograph by Geoff Boccalatte