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Small art, big impact By KYLIE WILSON SIMPLE things like the objects around her and the community inform the work of Kiewa Valley artist Susie Losch. Working from an old converted dairy at her Upper Gundowring home, Susie lets the textures help shape the finished piece. “It’s giving insignificant things a voice,” she said. Creative from a young age and having studied fine arts in the 1990s, Susie says it’s easy to draw inspiration from objects in her everyday life. “I begin to play, and ideas come from there,” she said. “I start a work, and then the story takes over itself. “I wait until the materials speak to me. “With wood, the shape, colour and texture are the impetus for collage type constructions. “It depends on what I have a lot of at the time.” Working with found objects is also a personal choice for Susie, who’s “inspired to live as self sufficient a life as possible”. “My work means not comsuming a lot of things, using what is available,” she said. Her piece in the Petite – Miniature Textiles Exhibition, currently at the Wangaratta Art Gallery, is entitled Teasel, and was put together using found objects, textiles and textile paraphernalia.
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Susie Losch with some of the work she has contributed to the Petite Miniature Textiles exhibition at Wangaratta Art Gallery. PHOTO: Luke Plummer
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