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Knitted works and Wrinkled Bellies

1982-85

Inspired by the 1981 visit of American fibre artist Mary Walker Phillips, Cordeaux started creating knitted abstract panels and hangings in hand-spun natural wool and dyed rug wool yarn. An early piece was accepted for inclusion in the ANZ Bank Art Award for Fabric and Fibre Art exhibition at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, in 1982.

In 1983 Cordeaux held a small exhibition of knitted works in Lyttelton and, encouraged by the positive response, produced a substantial solo show at the Canterbury Society of Arts Gallery, Christchurch, in 1984. This was titled - somewhat controversially - Wrinkled Bellies.

“Wrinkled bellies, the inevitable aftermath of childbirth, have become an art form at the hands of a Lyttelton-based artist, Judith Cordeaux. As a child, she was disturbed by the lines on her mother’s stomach. Later, as a mother herself, she found similar wrinkles on her own belly and, studying them, began to see them as no longer ugly, but symbolic of motherhood."  ‘I began to see beauty in these lines. Just as there is softness in the breast, so too there is softness in the lines of childbirth’.

“These ideas inspired “Wrinkled Bellies”, a series of wall hangings knitted on circular needles. The hangings are done in wool because ‘the fibre reminds me of the softness and elasticity of skin, and because in our country working in wool has been traditionally the work of women, and above all, of mothers.’ ”(The Press, 19 December 1984).

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  • Knitted Hanging, 1982, 
    wool

  • Pollock Piece, 1983, 
    knitted wool, 
    Lyttelton solo show, 1983

  • Pockets, 1983, 
    knitted wool, 
    Lyttelton solo show, 1983

  • Coloured Pockets, 1983, 
    knitted wool, 
    Lyttelton solo show, 1983

  • Knitted panels,, 
    Lyttelton solo show, 1983

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show,
    CSA Gallery,
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Judith Cordeaux and daughter Alys
    at Wrinkled Bellies, solo show,
    CSA Gallery,
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

  • Wrinkled Bellies, solo show, 
    CSA Gallery, 
    Christchurch 1984-5

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