Maitland’s Aroma festival is more than just a celebration of the city’s growing love affair with fine food and coffee – it’s a chance to bid farewell to Winter and recapture public space.
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This year, as the festival kicks-off, Newcastle artist Michaela Swan will help transform the Levee with a burst of colour and texture.
Her bright, 20 metre-long arm-knitted sculpture Into the Wind will be suspended in the alley that leads from the Levee to the riverside carpark where Aroma will be held.
Around town numerous installations including Swan’s will form the Warming the Streets exhibition.
“The warm colour palette chosen reflects the ambition of metaphorically and literally warming the streets,” Swan said in her description of the work.
“The striped design references a common perception of old fashioned/traditional knitting and the comfort associated with a hand knitted item of clothing or accessory.”
Swan’s installation is an extension of her Arm Knitting Project which recently filled Maitland Regional Art Gallery’s atrium with web-like fabric sculptures.
Other artists taking part in Aroma’s festivities include Maitland’s Indeah Clark, who will be sketching on coffee cups during the festival.
Maitland Aroma will be held on August 13 and 14.
