Art Car Boot Fair 2023
She_Curates interview with Sarah Lewis
While working with UNIT on our first collaboration, I had the chance to speak to incredible artist Sarah Lewis @feltculture about her practice, her life, and her work producing the iconic Helen Beard bag with UNIT Drops!
She describes her practice as: “Intuitive, curious, indefatigable, committed”. Speaking to Sarah was fascinating, and learning about the varied and intricate facets of her work and practice.
When describing her hopes for the future of her career, she said “There are different contexts in which I would like my work to be shown but big picture is to stay curious, committed, and connected to others. All my career expansion happens from this intention.”.
HELEN BEARD X FELT CULTURE
Felt Culture collaborates with Spacecraft.
Felt Culture worked with Australian screenprinting studio Spacecraft on a bag collaboration using the screens at Spacecraft and a Felt Culture design.
The result was a much loved addition to the Spacecraft designs in store.
This film explores the handmade screen making process for the bags starring the lovely Marina.
www.spacecraftaustralia.com
An ode to the bag……
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techo-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the pre-eminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story.