Art in Corona times

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Whilst in lockdown and away from home, with few materials, Michaela Callaghan has taken this opportunity to focus on her main passion and go back to the basics of fabric and drape. Without a model or mannequin, Michaela has produced a series of wall hangings, where she is literally dressing the space around her. She is constantly addressing the question of where the fullness of the drape is directed and how to decrease this mass, through cutting and reducing. Michaela has applied stripes and colour blocks into these explorations to highlight and adjust the movement of the volume. 

Michaela works on these large scale hangings as she would work through her sketchbook, trying to resolve the balance and movement of the piece. Michaela sees these pieces as a group of work that will translate back into her paintings and vice versa. She also sees these as objects which can simply hang or to play with and produce further drapes, she tackles these as a mathematical puzzle and sees them as an equation that can represent a piece of music or the movent of fabric which is simply stopped and turned in a different direction.