Artist Residency with the Monica Sjöö Curatorial Collective

 

I am doing an Instagram artist residency with the Monica Sjöö Curatorial Collective for the month of February. This residency was initiated by collective member Su Fahy @memoryartpalace in order to draw in new audiences to the work and themes of artist Monica Sjoo. There are no rules for the residency. They just ask for a minimum of four posts over a month of work inspired by the thematics of Monica as artist, activist, writer. Visit their Instagram site here.

The Images

I’m doing a tapestry. This is Day 1 of a woven tapestry project based on several topics that were of interest to Monica Sjöö - ancient matricentric civilisations, in this case Minoan Crete; women; and landscape. The design evokes some of my own favourite objects from Minoan civilisation: the faience votive dresses from the Temple Repositories at Knossos, Crete, dating to around 1750 BCE, in combination with landscape skirts as seen in the Minoan-style frescoes in the building Xeste 3 at Akrotiri on the island of Thera (Santorini), dating to no later than 1550 BCE. 

Caroline Tully Bio

Caroline Tully is a modern Pagan witch who is also an archaeologist, antiquities curator, and professional tapestry weaver. She has many areas of interest including ancient Mediterranean religions and contemporary Paganisms, particularly Witchcraft and Pagan Reconstructionism. Caroline is an expert on tree worship in the Bronze Age Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus, and has strong interests in the Environmental Humanities, nature, landscape, animism, ecology, ecofeminism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.