{"title":"Maggie Hensel Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMaggie Hensel-Brown is an Australian artist working predominantly in needle lace. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014, then opened The Workroom, a small gallery and workspace in Mulubinba\/Newcastle, where she worked as director and curator for two years. In 2015, a class in Reticella redirected her practice toward lace making, the same year she first saw a seventeenth-century lace panel that convinced her lace could tell a story as powerfully as any painting. Her own work grew from that discovery, each piece built around a narrative, often drawn from the ordinary and chaotic parts of her own life. She has studied needle lace across England, Italy, the United States, the Netherlands and Australia, and her work now appears in collections both in Australia and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-pot","title":"The Pot – Unique Lace Artwork","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaggie Hensel‑Brown’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLace Series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecomprises three needle lace works that distill a historic depiction of Judith beheading Holofernes into intimate vignettes. In the story drawn from the apocryphal Book of Judith, a widow saves her town by entering the tent of the besieging general Holofernes and beheading him with his own sword. Each piece draws out a single motif from the original 17th‑century lace in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/collection.powerhouse.com.au\/object\/183127\"\u003ePowerhouse Collection\u003c\/a\u003e – a hand reaching toward a sword, a servant’s bag and an enigmatic pot – rendered as delicate, readable imagery. Worked in super fine silk thread over a hand‑drawn pattern, the lace is built stitch by stitch and released by cutting away darker scaffold threads so it can be peeled off in one freestanding form, with cascading glass bead tassels and deep red drips adding a lush, tactile richness. Commissioned exclusively by Powerhouse Made\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e™\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, these small but intensely detailed works bring centuries of lace history and stories of powerful women into the intimacy of the home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn first seeing the original panel in the Powerhouse Collection in 2015, Hensel‑Brown learned that lace could carry stories as powerful as any painting or text, a discovery that has shaped her practice ever since. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eI hope that people see that storytelling is important, and that we should look at power in all kinds of different interesting ways\u003c\/em\u003e.” – Maggie Hensel-Brown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Hensel-Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45890988671155,"sku":"MHB-ART-POT","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/0847\/6595\/files\/20260910_PHM_MAGGIE_HANSEL_21.jpg?v=1790061120"},{"product_id":"the-sword","title":"The Sword – Unique Lace Artwork","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaggie Hensel‑Brown’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLace Series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecomprises three needle lace works that distill a historic depiction of Judith beheading Holofernes into intimate vignettes. 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