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With a focus on the principles of 'making do', Prado-Marin artwork promotes re-using, re-making and re-seeing the poetic beauty in the everyday. Utilising both new and found materials the work becomes a carriage for time and a document of the process. Found off-cuts, antique threads, and hand painted and dyed silks and cottons are cut, re-threaded and transformed. Found and antique materials bring their own individual history with them and by placing these different fabrics and textures side by side new narratives begin to emerge. As a result each artwork is a unique one-off piece with its own message or story to tell. The process of merging old and new also becomes an act of preservation by giving the once discarded and overlooked another life.
Prado-Marin was founded in 2004 by artist Paula do Prado and her partner Anthony Marinangeli as a way to promote handmade paper and textile craft. Paula was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and has called herself an Australian since 1986 when she emigrated with her parents. Coming from a large South American family dominated by strong women, one of her earliest memories is of her mother, aunts and cousins gathering to knit and crochet together. Even to this day, family and friends help in sourcing many of the found materials used in making Prado-Marin artwork.
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