Luise Elsing

Born: Sydney, NSW

Lives and Works: Sydney, NSW

Artist Statement

THEMOON, 2025
wool, aluminium, thread

THEMOON is a giant 3m x 2m crochet representation of the moon in the night sky.

Designed to be viewed in the round THEMOON is made up of various smaller sized pieces depicting the moon’s lunar phases, which, collectively, from a distance, appears as an enormous image of a waxing gibbous/full moon in the dark night sky. A series of community workshops in Berry and Sydney, led by the artist, were conducted in the lead up to the festival, where community members learnt Luise’s technique and created pieces to contribute to the final work for OpenField.

THEMOON connects with OpenField’s curatorial theme Re:Place because of the lunar nexus with agriculture and the consequent disengagement inherent in land clearing and development.

About the Artist

Luise Elsing is a self-taught crochet artist who has created crochet works for over 10 years and had a solo show in July 2024 in the hub at the Woollahra Gallery, Sydney.

She has participated and led workshops at several forums including the Crochet Guild of Australia National Conference in Melbourne where her genre ‘Film in Crochet’ was featured, and the Southern Highlands Textile & Fibre Network.