Jacqui Creswell

Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

Woven basket form artwork by Jacqui Creswell

After moving to Coochiemudlo Island 21 years ago, fibre artist Jacqui Cresswell, discovered a bounty of natural and found materials.

The vines and plants provide the inspiration for her work and continue to shape and direct new forms in her practice.

Within the meditative practice of weaving, Jacqui allows the character of the materials and the chaotic patterns of the bush itself to influence the shape and flow of the work.

The aspect of hunting and gathering vines and plant materials allows Jacqui to enjoy time in the beauty and serenity of nature.

All her materials are found on the island, palm inflorescences found lying on the side of the road, weed vines like morning glory, corky passion vine, cat's claw and more, gathered from bush and garden.

They are often shaped into open basket or nest forms, creating a healing in symbolic representation of refuge and protection.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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