WATCH: Warrnambool-born artist Lisa Gorman discusses how textiles influence her work.
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00:00 I was always extremely curious about working with different mediums and no more a time
00:06 than is now is that kind of obvious I think, even to me.
00:10 It took me as a bit of a surprise that I've actually made the move out of the textile
00:16 industry and into a new medium.
00:18 My work is inspired by textiles, my many years in textiles and during my time in textiles
00:25 I spent a lot of time creating fabrics which involved weaving the warp and the weft, which
00:34 is a woven piece of cloth generally.
00:38 And so the warp is up and down, the weft is across.
00:42 But I think ultimately the crossing of translucent colours represents that warp and weft and
00:50 that sort of space in between.
00:52 And that's what I wanted to highlight here.
00:55 I would also go and help my Nan down at St Kitts on the weekend and she was working there
01:00 doing the op shopping and so many tartans would come through that business.
01:05 I think how many kilts would we have had?
01:08 Oh, we only had kilts.
01:09 I grabbed a clutch, we were a big thing at that time.
01:11 Fletcher Jones said, "Get every possible tartan out" and they were beautifully made.
01:16 I could give you a few minutes of one a day but it is not a scrap.
01:20 We used to be able to buy the off cuts of the tartan a bit, a bit of pieces about that
01:25 big which would be pleated and we would have a second shop and you could buy them and you
01:31 could join them all up so therefore you could make your own kilt.
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