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KNOT

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Sat 21 Feb 
 — Sun 8 Mar 



Black Diamond Gallery, 
Port Adelaide,
2014 Adelaide Fringe Festival







Before there was superglue and PVA, before even nuts and bolts and epoxy resin, it was knots that held the world together.

“A sailor, from the very nature of his craft, has a dependence on rope and a consequent familiarity with knots that is demanded of no other workman. It follows that most important knots owe both their origin and their names to the requirements of the ship of the sea.”
The Ashley Book of Knots, written and illustrated by Clifford W Ashley and first published in 1944

With over 1500 tall ships tying up to the wharves of the Port in its heyday, and each ship being held together with several miles of rigging, knots and the knowledge required to understand their function and make the most of their utility would have played an essential part of any sailor’s skill set. The Port would have witnessed many a knot.

Bowline, Hangman’s Noose, Monkey Fist, Half Hitch, Rolling Hitch, Clove Hitch, Trucker’s Hitch, Sheepshank, Sheet Bend, Slip, and Figure-Eight. All secure to the Bitter End.

We also have knots for knickers and knackers, in all things woven and stitched, in baskets, rugs, clothes, knit and purl, when getting hitched, lacing shoes, tying a tie, knots to make string into nets, knots in wood, in the stomach, in muscles, in love. Knots of speed to tell how fast your boat’s going or the wind’s a blowing.

This exhibition celebrates the knot.


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Artists
Jaqueline Barmentloo 
Annabelle Collett
CHEB [Deb Jones +
Christine Cholewa]
Nici Cumpston
Johnnie Dady
Sandra Elms 
Danica Gacesa McLean 


Curated by Tony Kearney

Emma Johnson 
Peter Johnson 
Tony Kearney 
Nick Mount  
Amanda Sefton Hogg 
Hossein Valamanesh
Trevor Wren 

 
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