Project Tapestry of South Asia
Susanne Nielsen
Monday, November 22, 2021
A "Tapestry" of South Asian inspired Mixed Media works
Project Tapestry of South Asia
Mother's Dresses : Installation Project: Recreation of Dresses in conjunction with 12-Painting-Project
My Mother's Dresses adds a 3-D Component - 12 Model Dresses Recreated
Susanne Nielsen collaborates with couture seamstress Theresia Thielke, both advised by Susanne's mother, to continue the 2020/21 "My Mother's Dresses" project with this added 3-D component. Susanne Nielsen announced this new project at the opening reception of "My Mother's Dresses" first exhibition.
12 Mother's Dresses that were exhibited in May-July 2021 at Freedom Pavilion, Tampa, Florida under the sponsorship of The Outdoor Art Foundation.
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The project of recreating the garments will lead to an installation of the paintings and the 3-D component of the 12 garments.
The Creation of the 50s Dresses - from photographs, few base-patterns modified to suit Susanne's mother and contemporary Post-WWII women also had done, begins in 2021 and is completed in June 2023.
Susanne Nielsen and Theresia Thielke
Susanne and Theresia share a friendship that began in 1098 when Theresia volunteered to answer telephones during Susanne Nielsen's hour long weekly German Radio Show in the studio. When Susanne heard about Theresia's interesting life and her work in the fashion world, she did a number of interviews for her show. When the 3-D component of the My Mother's Dresses became Susanne's next project, Theresia was a natural choice to help (re-) create these beautiful dresses. Visits with discussions between Susanne and Theresia continue through completion in June 2023. German-born Theresia Thielke's couture experience goes back to the 1960s training and work for couturiers like Oleg Cassini in New York, where she sewed the official wardrobe of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, incl. the inaugural gown and later sewed for First Lady Barbara Bush.
Couture seamstress Theresia Thielke is executed the patterns and creation of the dresses in constant consulting with Susanne in person and her mother (via phone) every week.
Susanne Nielsen and her Mother
Artist Susanne Nielsen kept her mother, the original creator of the dresses "au courant" of the progress on each recreated model dress by sending photographs via Whatsapp. Susanne's mother, in her daily calls to her daughter, advised on color choices of the fabrics and other details she, as the creator of patterns for the 1950s' garments to be recreated by Theresia.
Dress #1 - Gray Organza with rose trim and shawl of organza and taffeta
They began with the gray Organza dress, with peach flowers and a transparent Organza stole. The photo shows Theresia working on the dess's top pleats.
Completed gray/rose Organza dress, Dress # 1
Dress #2/3 white lace Top and blue Skirt and Jacket
Dress # 2/3 with blue skirt and jacket ( painting 2)
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Dress #4 with red Primroses ( painting 4)
Dress #5, with rose pattern on off-white fabric
Dress #5 with roses on off-white fabric
Dress #7, Green Silk Taffeta Dress , "the most versatile" black/green reversible
Apron/Kitchen Dress #8, "Kittel-Schuerze" , cotton blue/white pattern
Dress #9, Black Silk Taffeta Dress , "Mother's Legacy" 1940s resewn in 50s
Anneliese Schmidt wore the green dress at her sister Rosemarie's wedding 1952, then added straps for cousin Helga to wear it at her wedding in 1954
Dress #11, Multi-print Summer "Rettershof" Dress , first Outings with our Father
Dress #12, black Top/gray Skirt, yellow-orange flowers Dress
Dress #13, Off-White Lace Dress, stole, 1960/61 Nice, Wiesbaden Casino New Years Ball
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Frame Work My Mother's Dresses Project
Opening and closing with Wedding Dresses Painted or/and Presented
Dress #14, Gray Wedding Dress, 1983, Last Original Dress sewn by Susanne's Mother
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My Mother married in a Wedding dress borrowed from her sister, later she made a wedding dress for Barbie from her veil.
Book of Process: My Mother's Dresses: Susanne's Mother, Susanne Nielsen's Dress Project painted by her, and sewn by Theresia Thielke
Susanne Nielsen with Theresia Thielke 2022
Describing the Process: My Mother's Dresses: Susanne Nielsen shows her paintings and Theresia Thielke shows the dresses and all admire Susanne's Wedding dress sewn by her mother in 1983, 40+ years ago
Anneliese Schmidt with her Dresses in a book December 2022
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