Sadie Niall

Throughout the year the focus of my folio and artwork has been exploring the relationships between humans and nature. I focused on the human and more specifically the female body and its position in the natural environment, exploring native Australian plants and environments. I explored the contrasts between the idea of things that are structural and man-made and their contrast from the organic replenishing cycle of nature and how I could combine these elements on a single artwork. Throughout my exploration process I moved from focusing on indigenous Australian land and environments towards the female body and its place in nature, however the idea of a corset also communicates ideas of something British and its oppressive nature reflects on the imposition the English Had on pre-colonial indigenous Australian land.  

For my final work I decided to sew and then embroider a corset, because it reflected the idea of something man-made and highly structural that heavily contrasts the freedom and organic state of natural environments. To combine this with my exploration of plants and flowers I embroidered parts of the garment with leaves and small, flowers as well as adding two small butterflies I made from polymer clay.