Work & play

Knitting a wire work piece for an installation

I am a storyteller through art using whichever medium suits the current work.

I enjoy having several different projects happening at once, each one informing the direction and outcome of the others.

Rather than narrowing my gaze it has become broader. New work excites me.There are no failures only the sense that some ideas may take longer to mature.

• Small and Large Sculptures

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• Birds and glass

  The stone birds are being made into glass and I am loving exploring the medium. They are called Seelie Birds I am also now making small glass houses under the title Hireath ‘a spiritual longing for a place that maybe never was’

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• Paintings

  I seek to develop a graphic and visual language that adequately expresses a deep shifting truth.

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• Sculpture

  Prices vary. If they are not in the shop please contact me. Both Ed and I do small and large sculptures and we always have work in our home studio.Please get in touch if you’d like to come for a visit

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• Illustration and books

  Liliana Stafford has published twelve books, two of which have been published internationally. She has won the Hoffman Award and been shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Award and the Environment Award. Liliana’s highly-acclaimed children’s book Amelia Ellicott’s Garden has recently become a play with La Luna Youth Arts in Townsville. Amelia Ellicott’s Garden was also an honour book in the 2001 CBC...

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• Installation

  Installation excites me but it needs space. I love working BIG! And Ed works even bigger

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• Fibre Work

  Working with fibre has been a slowly evolving love affair that began many years ago when my mother taught me embroidery and knitting. Then came weaving but always my way. I use the knowledge gained then to create work for now and combine the fibres with wire,silk, tissue paper and wood to create my own dreams.

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• Stafford Studios

  A place to play and work. As the ideas grow so does the need for space. Ed works in his shed and I work in the studio, on the back veranda and the kitchen table. Over time we have begun to work together and enjoy the sharing of skills and ideas. ‘Stafford Studios’ is something we joked about over a...

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• Curriculum Vitae

  Stafford, Liliana – Curriculum vitae Born South Harting UK 18th March 1950 Lives and works in Fremantle Western Australia Published author of twelve books and illustrator of one Self taught I have been painting full time for eight years and making sculpture for four Galleries     2017-2018 Paper Bird Gallery Fremantle 2017 Allendale Square law building Perth. Exhibiting sculpture...

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