	{"id":102949,"date":"2024-09-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/?p=102949"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T01:09:01","slug":"sensitised-and-sentimental-at-tweed-regional-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/byroncoasttimes\/living\/sensitised-and-sentimental-at-tweed-regional-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensitised and sentimental at Tweed Regional Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional artist Melissa Spratt is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), meaning she has an acute sense of her surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding this gave her the answers she&#8217;d always sought and allowed her to explore her heightened sense of emotions and responses through art in her new exhibition Sensitised and Sentimental.<\/p>\n<p>Spratt&#8217;s finger-knitting provides a therapeutic practice that she finds comforting and sensory. In using wool, her process and artworks offer a contradiction: the conflicting relationship in the properties of wool which can be soft or rough, warming or cooling, and can irritate or soothe.<\/p>\n<p>The artist said the tactile nature of textile work was her preferred way of translating her thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/09\/Sentimental2_42275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"481\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Spratt&#8217;s work &#8216;It is daunting to make art about how existing makes me feel&#8217;. Photo: SUPPLIED<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During COVID-19 and the year preceding, I found out I identify as a Highly Sensitive Person,&#8221; Spratt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought everyone was walking around seeing and feeling everything in similar ways to me, but as it turns out, being an HSP means that I am more aware, receptive and emotionally sensitive to my surroundings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spratt shares her experiences by using long strands of finger-knitted woollen chains spelling out short statements and longer stream-of-consciousness phrases in bold colours across her artworks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt vulnerable and initially hesitated to share these works as I was still understanding this new place of knowledge I found myself in,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30038 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2024\/09\/Sentimental_SallySin_42312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Spratt with her work in &#8216;Sensitised and Sentimental&#8217; at Tweed Regional Gallery. Photo: SALLY SINGH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I would be judged and not taken seriously, and sometimes I still do. All my achievements and the encouraging feedback convinced me there was an audience for this body of work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My new works explore my own inner contemplations, sensitivities and sentimentalities and are a reminder for all of us that being sensitive does not mean being weak.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Spratt will host the free school holiday Art Play for young people aged 5 to 12 on October 2 and October 4 at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>Sensitised and Sentimental is on display until Sunday, November 17. For more information, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au\/whats-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au\/whats-on<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional artist Melissa Spratt is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), meaning she has an acute sense of her surroundings. Understanding this gave her the answers she&#8217;d always sought and allowed her to explore her heightened sense of emotions and responses through art in her new exhibition Sensitised and Sentimental. 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