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.
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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 regularly 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
- 'Flint, India (1958-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1508890. Details
See also
- Fagg, Murray, 'Flint, India (1958 - )', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/flint-india.html. Details
Christine Moje
Created: 25 September 2012, Last modified: 17 March 2014
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