Art of Annemieke Mein

Annemieke Mein lives in Australia. She was born in Haarlem, Holland, in 1944. Annemieke has become internationally recognized as an artist and craftswoman. She was the first textile artist to be accepted as a member of both the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia and the Australian Guild of Realist Artists. She is the only textile artist to be featured in Australian Artist.She won the inaugural Hoechst Textile Award in 1980. She is represented in the Hoechst and Husqvarna international collections, in private, national and state collections in Australia and in private collections in Holland, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan and Canada. In 1988 she was awarded the Order of Australia Medal 'for services to the Arts, particularly in textile sculptures and bronze bas-relief sculptures'.The Annemieke Mein Gallery, a space dedicated to her artwork within the new Gippsland Art Gallery at Sale, opened in January 2018. Exhibitions change regularly.Annemieke's website can be visited at www.annemiekemein.net.au

• Foreword: Charles McCubbin ixList of Works xvProfile: Phillip Mein 1 Author’s Note 7 TEXTILE WORKSWhite-faced Heron 12Coastal Banksia 14Eastern Water Dragon 17The morass – Sale 19Bush Jacket 21Maternity Dress 21Dragonfly Cape 23Lacewing Vest 24Butterfly Ties 25Fisherman’s Tie 25Grasshoppers 26Frogs 30Dragonflies 32Cup Moths & Larva 34-36Sawflies 38Superb Blue Wrens 41Christmas Beetles 43The Potter Wasp I & II 45-46The Old Lady Moth 49Squabbling Gulls 51Pink Emperor Gum Moth I & II 54-56Above the Channels 59The Nest 63Case Moth Cocoons 64Emerald Moth on Banksia 66Fallen Red Gum Log 69Fallen Branches 70Silvereyes 73Ameinus McCubbinonymous, Lepidoptera 77 Mythical Moth 78 Mating Mythical Moths 81 Slate Pencil Sea Urchin 85 Barnacles 88 Mussels and Kelp 90 Wattle Seed-pods 92 Here She Comes! 94 Early Birds 98 Lepidoptera Quadripartite 100 Freedom & Samplers 104-106Night Flight 112 Fantail Rhapsody 115 Fantail Night Watch 120 Southern Blue Gum Blossoms 122 Flight Dust 124 Butterfly Dust 126 Pittosporum Seed-pods & Blossoms 128-129Fabric Fantasy 131 Grasshopper Flight 135 Dance of the Mayflies 136 Mayfly Life Cycle 140 Frog Down Under 143 Lewin Honeyeater Nestlings I 146 Book on Lewin Honeyeater Nestlings II 150 Lepidoptera Olympia Australis 152 Pheromone Frenzy 154Acknowledgements 159

This tribute to the work of Annemieke Mein was first published in 1992 but remains as impressive as ever. Her expressive stitched compositions of nature are a perfect lesson in the artistry of stitch; marrying Mein's acute flair for observation and storytelling with her skill as an embroiderer (she used numerous techniques in limitless combinations - hand and machine embroidery, dyeing, appliqué, trapunto, quilting, pleating, felting, beading, weaving and plying.) Now sadly no longer able to work her legacy is captured in the beautiful photography and vivid descriptions of her processes in this book.