Robyn Claire

Robyn lives and works in Hobart. Although she failed needlework in Year Five she has maintained the passion for threads. The contemplative, meditative rhythm which enlivens the eye in the finger vocabulary and reading of embroidery, links with the past and other cultural languages.

Bustier 2008

Threads connect and celebrate the minutiae of natural history across centuries, from Elizabethan black-work to 1930s Semco patterns and to the present where, in 2008, embedded in the thread as a metaphor is the sustaining support women generate in their collaborative processes. In this piece scarred and barely present the spirit of the lizard lies in the landscape.

Drawing the Thread

Concealed beneath a decaying log in a moist Tasmanian rainforest the Tasmanian Cave Spider creates her egg sac.

Drop Line

The larva of a Macleay's Swallowtail drops from the remains of its sassafras host plant in Southwest Tasmania.