Blanket is a new series of works exploring surface tension, pattern and colour through repetition of process: with hand knitting and stitching. By creating fabrics that are crunchy, noisy, heavy, made from the Anthropocene materials. I can express human existence, survival.
Woven Orange 2025 is a new ‘first piece’ working through the process of weaving. The orange Australian wool machine woven blanket was recycled as a woven length (scarf) playing on process and scale. Under and over, under and over strips of woolen blanket point turned at the end of the row and hand stitched give a Macro view of warp and weft construction. The Unseen is Seen.
Knitted from plastic coated paper gift ribbon, Ice Blanket intends to encapsulate the whiteness of ice, the texture crunchy; the light prismatic. This study is the beginning of a series for blanket, cloak and igloo that resonates viscerally with the viewer;
informed from research into Antarctica and a local (connection/inmate/patient/resident) of JWARD psychiatric asylum, Sidney H Jeffryes.
Ice Blanket Study 2026 Shortlisted West End Artspace 2026 Biennale of Colour and Light
White Noise, next in the study series of Antarctica blankets and survival is a knitted string, from an unused carpet bobbin, translated into a textile form. Experiences and story of the anthropocene, survival, innovation and ingenuity. This work has been recorded. Communication Connection. The needle clicked to the right or left, right dah, left dit (iddy-umpty- military slang for Morse). I would like to expand on the nature of signals and the silence between them by connecting knitted code with binary language of morse and ANARE.
Lights Out is a knitted study of discarded fairy string lights, transmitted into a textile form. Weaving together- or in this case: knitting together the experiences and story of the anthropocene, survival, innovation and ingenuity. The beguiling Australian sense of humour under duress of hardship, mate ship, isolation, extreme weather and the state of incommunicado.
Selkie and her seaweeds, Quarantine Station, Point Nepean, Strata Drift Festival, 2023
Selkie and her seaweeds installation in situ at the Quarantine Station, Point Nepean/ Portsea in the disinfecting room.
Design Eye Creative Paper on Skin, Burnie Tasmania 2020 shortlist, Esther the Paper dress, zooblast makes an immortal jellyfish to wear.
Hand knitted on 4mm bamboo double pointed needles, this Haori jacket constructed from 115 triangle motifs has used close to 1000 metres of white paper string.
The 11Ogsm drafting trace films were hand cut into circles and folded into triangles, glued to then form the Esther wrap around dress.
Jade Kahle (VIC)
'The Esther Dress' Inspired by the immortal jellyfish, the dress floats through space, utilising the ethereal translucency of trace paper - the jacket and coral-patterned accessories are crocheted from paper string.
Design Eye Creative 'paper on skin' is a biennial wearable paper art competition, gala event and exhibition held in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia.
In 2020 we added a filmed version. The entire film, 'Design Eye Creative paper on skin 2020 - The Film', showcases 31 entries from 7 countries.
Model: April En Vogue Modelling Academy Music by Telen Rodwell, North West Support Services Music Studio.
For more information about the competition and event www.burnieartscouncil.com
bitter sweet sour salty small truths carried by pigeons.
The first iteration of dry-point etched painted print pigeons occurred with a carrier pigeon exhibition that was sent to 25 individuals via Australia Post. Directions to Keep, Send on or Return to Sender were enclosed. Printed pigeons with messages of love, truth and regret scrolled into Post tubes in January 2019.
December 2019 saw a small exhibition of pigeons and truths with a viewing of pigeons prints that never left, in a loftlike space.
This flight of pigeons with a singular base matrix image are all themselves, finished with ink as a painted monoprint, as no pigeon is alike.
The blue pigeons were traditionally printed in a petite edition of 10.
Enter Jaded Medusa head the last long blush with my head cut off ( 2018/19 ) With Beetroot Faces and Making Face- a look at self portraiture and doll making. ( 2018 )
Wooden knitted dolls with iconic beetroot faces in situ with hands etched and yarns intertwined.
Imagery of knitting dolls and spools mark a transition from Jade's knitted expression back to drawing and printmaking ( 2017 )
Hey Doll Face series
knitted skins
Inking up the plate in Carmine Red
Two Hands Print in Carmine Red on Fabriano Rosa pina
In situ with models
