Person

Flint, India (1958 - )

Born
1958
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Artist and Dyemaker
Website
http://www.indiaflint.com/index.htm

Summary

Textile artist and author India Flint practices and studies ecologically sustainable plant dyeing techniques. She works with cloth, paper, felt, weaving, stitch and bio-regionally gathered, ecologically sustainable dyes.

Details

Her distinctive Eco-print, developed in the course of research for a Master of Visual Arts at the University of South Australia, has become a defining feature of India Flint's textile practice. While she has made details of the technique available in order to assist dye practitioners with colour assessment of eucalypts, it is on the understanding the process will not be used on a commercial basis.

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
  • McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

  • Flint, India, Eco colour : botanical dyes for beautiful textiles (Millers Point, NSW: Murdoch Books, 2008), 238 pp. Details

Resources

See also

Christine Moje

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