Pamela Booth

Pamela Booth completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University in 1996. She majored in textiles and printmaking.

She incorporates textiles in all her artwork and lately has focused on the dilly bag. This fragile textile is superimposed on a landscape background. The bag form is crocheted in two dimensions then printed using the monoprint technique. No two pieces are alike. Each piece can have multiple layers done over a period of weeks.

Her way of working is slow. The process of dyeing the paper making the inks and paints is a long procedure with wonderful unpredictable results. She uses a layering process with the ghosts of multiple print layers just visible beneath the complex surfaces.

Pamela uses the colours and textures of the landscape around the Kimberley and Pilbara regions. The fragility of the land has always inspired her. She uses many mediums and may incorporate the natural ochres of the region in her work.