Rosalie Gallery fibre arts exhibition seeks to improve mental health, personal connections

Miriam Sharp’s aptly titled exhibition, Tidings of Comfort and Joy, will be displayed at Goombungee’s Rosalie Gallery from November 13 to December 8, 2024. Miriam’s fibre arts pieces resonate with a message of seeking, finding and creating comfort and joy to improve our mental health and relationships with others. Creating together and sharing the enjoyment of making improves wellbeing and inter-personal connections. Miriam encourages the viewer to contemplate where they find meaning and satisfaction and to appreciate the little things in life. Spending time with other people and making and playing together perform an important role in experiencing comfort and joy. Art and craft, in particular fibre crafts, have a positive influence on health and wellbeing, from the meditative act of spinning fibres into yarn, through to the enjoyment of wearing or gifting a handmade item. Through modern application of historical crafts such as knitting and weaving, Miriam creates a connection with the people of the past, as well as the present. The exhibition’s Meet the Artist event will take place between 10.30am and 3.30pm on Saturday, November 16, 2024. On Saturday, November 30, Miriam Sharp will conduct a Creative Cardboard Weaving Workshop. For more information, please see: Exhibition | Tidings of Comfort and Joy - Miriam Sharp (tr.qld.gov.au) For further information, contact the Gallery on (07) 4696 5600 or [email protected] Rosalie Gallery at 89 Mocatta Street, Goombungee is open from 10.30am to 3.30pm Wednesday to Sunday and closed on Monday, Tuesday and public holidays. Entry is free. Images: Miriam SHARP / Happy days 2023 (detail) / commercial and hand spun yarns / 27 x 45cm / © Miriam Sharp Miriam SHARP / Mirror for the Sun 2024 / commercial and hand spun yarns / 37 x 28cm / © Miriam Sharp Miriam SHARP / A glorious day 2024 / commercial and hand spun yarns / 15 x 15cm / © Miriam Sharp Download pics: https://spaces.hightail.com/space/E6M7zlaQpX