Evelyn Roth

[1][2] During the 1970s Roth focused her practice on knitting and crocheting with recycled materials including television video tape and natural fibres.

[6] That same year, she joined the British Columbia pavilion at Expo '74, presenting under a sunsail made of woven computer tapes and videotape.

[7] She often adapted the motif of wearables, fabricating work from found materials and ingeniously using them in various festivals, events or exhibitions.

Where the award winning film Woven in Time was created in 1974, featuring Roth's textile work and the company in various outdoor settings.

[10] In 1981, she was invited to install an interactive display at the Adelaide Festival Centre Foyer which she created out of discarded TV programs (titled Under the Billabong There Lives A Salmon), then returned to South Australia to work with Pitjitjanjara communities and held workshops in rabbit knit and painted leather garments, as well as crocheting a shade canopy from discarded video tape and play web from nylon.

[10] In 1990, she set up the Evelyn Roth Celebration Centre – Point Roberts, USA (artist' studios, art gallery and performance space) This large studio allowed her to expand inflatable structures into mazes, set up a FestivalArts website and to promote her work worldwide.