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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist

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Chronically ill embroidery artist Highly Commended - Qld Regional Art Awards 2023 (Textiles) She/Her https://beacons.ai/jodiehandleyembroideryartist

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Nov 16

The Four Swords of Rest & Recovery

This piece portrays the emotional burden of forced rest required by chronic conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome.

October 2023

#embroidery #threadpainting #tarotcard #tarotart #chronicillnessart #chronicillnessartist #chronicillness #chronicallyfullysick

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Sep 27

Had a great time at the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize!

I didn't take home any prizes, although it turns out I was 4 votes off the winner of People's Choice - its both nice to know I almost hit popular vote & will haunt me forever 😂

I left the house & wore a cute outfit, so I think I won!

Woman in glasses with shaved sides of head and a french brad wearing a green printed transparent top over a black crop and a long black skirt with a blue walk stick, standing beside a large framed embroidery hung on the wall to her right. The embroidery is a scientific illustration of a skeleton with colored mushrooms growing out of it, and scientific labels of different illnesses. There are lines on the fabric to make it appear like notepaper and a large coffee cup stain in the bottom left corner.

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Aug 27

@lillifurfaro.bsky.social are you planning on putting your Bells Hells songs up on streaming/iTunes so I can buy them and then listen to them all the time along with my M9 & VM ones? 🥹

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jul 26

Well yeah, but the post doesnt say much 🤷🏻‍♀️ I was just offering as an option, not as fact. I also dont think they should be kept as pets obviously.

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jul 24

We also had a cat and my mum would know the roos were ready for release back in the wild when they could win in the battle with the cat for the cat biscuits 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jul 24

They might be wildlife carers? My parents were national park rangers & some kids bought them a baby emu because their dogs killed its mum. We had a kangaroo joey at the same time which had a black tip at the end of its tail & Eek the Emu used to chase him around the yard trying to peck his tail 😂

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jul 24

I have had those 7 songs on repeat for like 2 weeks now. That is the best line, you are correct.

Your Idol is the bangerist of the bangers tho

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 finalists share.google/caWewR4afsqo...

Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 finalists

Congratulations to the Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 finalists.

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Jun 26

In very exciting news, I am delighted to be one of the finalists in this year's Sunshine Coast National Art Prize held by the Caloundra Regional Gallery.

Patient 46 will be in good company, I am so excited to see multiple other wonderful textiles pieces among the excellent finalists!

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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · Jun 1

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · May 15

I'm so glad! May we all have comparison based friendships and big old spworms in our futures 😂

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · May 15

I'm ready to start embroidering again, so obvs I did something SO NICHE. Where my Dropout subscribers at?😂

I had to immortalise my fave @smartypantsdotcom.bsky.social presentation in thread- @paulrobalino.bsky.social unhinged lecture on how to 'upgrade' humans. It always makes me laugh til I cry

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Apr 5

Plus, this is my competition piece for at least a year, skele has more battles to fight! I'm already lining up another I think might be a good fit 😂😂

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Apr 5

Welp, my big skele didn't get into the textiles art prize finals. It's a bit of a bummer, but luckily I dont base my self worth on how art prizes work out 😂 I know it's a great piece, & it wouldn't have evolved into as impressive a piece as it is if I didn't intend to enter it, so its still a win!

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lilli furfaro @lillifurfaro.bsky.social · Mar 22

hi @marisha-ray.bsky.social ! i wrote a song for laudna! easy to lose sight of yourself in all that darkness. a hand to hold helps.
thanks 🖤

#CriticalRole @criticalrole.bsky.social

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i am — laudna’s song

YouTube video by Lilli Furfaro

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is EVERYTHING

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 14

This looks like quilting 😍

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you so much! Any of the chronic illnesses that have a ribbon (endo, fibro, cfs etc) I made the mushrooms the colour of the ribbon 😊

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you so much! 😊 Im so happy to FINALLY be finished, and so glad I got it done by the deadline!

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thank you so much! I have to give my partner credit for the idea of making it look like a notebook page, and the coffee stain. But also, I hate him so much for the notebook idea because mounting it and trying to stretch it tight and even get the lines as straight as I have was a nightmare 😂

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you so much 😭

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

May the judges agree 😂😂😂

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

Oh it is 100cm x 60cm btw! Dorky photo of me with it for scale!

Photo of a smiling woman with glasses and shaved sides of head and blue hair pulled back in a braid wearing a dress standing in front of a large embroidered artwork of a linework scientific image of a skeleton with brightly coloured mushrooms growing from it, labeled with different illnesses, and a large coffee stain in the bottom left hand corner.

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you so much! It was touch & go this week woo boy. I learned I can embroider while full sobbing 😂😂 Multitasking! But I got it done by the deadline and it is in the art prize! So we will see what happens! BUT WHATEVER IT IS DONE!!!!

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Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you so much 🥰

Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist @jodiehandley.bsky.social · Mar 6

#embroidery #embroideryart #embroideryartist #embroiderypainting #chronicillnessart #chronicillnessartist #chronicillness #chronicallyfullysick #cfs #fibromyalgia #endometriosis

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