River's Edge gets the artist's touch | The Examiner | December 12, 2023 - video Dailymotion

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The new UTAS River's Edge building is host to the textile art of Michael Kay. He shares his unusual road to art with Duncan Bailey. Video Rod Thompson.

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00:00 I was in Melbourne and I was a classical percussionist there and got the job as the principal percussionist

00:12 of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.

00:14 So I came down here and this was kind of like an interest and then the balance changed.

00:22 So I'm still a musician but yeah, the textiles took over.

00:28 Have you always worked with textiles and fabric?

00:31 Yes, I've had an interest like way back as a kid.

00:36 If I'd need anything fixing my mum would go, "This is how you do it once and now you do

00:42 it, you fix your zip, you do your..."

00:46 And being at college over there I can remember getting into knitting and we'd go on tour

00:51 and I'd pass this thing around to all the other students and we'd all be sitting there

00:55 making this giant...

00:56 So yeah, there's been an interest all the way through.

00:59 So being introduced to sewing from your mum kind of spurred that on?

01:02 Yeah, it did.

01:03 I remember all my mates, I think there was a thing in the Women's Weekly which was how

01:11 to make a hood out of a blanket.

01:13 So I made all these, so we were all like something out of Lord of the Rings or whatever with

01:19 our hoods on.

01:21 So yeah, there's always been an interest in textiles in one form but yeah, it turned into

01:26 my main whatever in the end.

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River's Edge gets the artist's touch | The Examiner | December 12, 2023

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