Jodie Handley - Embroidery Artist
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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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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
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!
@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? 🥹
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.
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 🤷🏻‍♀️
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 😂
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
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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Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows
I'm so glad! May we all have comparison based friendships and big old spworms in our futures 😂
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
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 😂😂
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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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 😊
Thank you so much! 😊 Im so happy to FINALLY be finished, and so glad I got it done by the deadline!
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 😂
Oh it is 100cm x 60cm btw! Dorky photo of me with it for scale!
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!!!!