Exhibition Celebration: New Exuberance – contemporary Australian textile design

When: Friday 29th September 2023, 6PM
Where: Bennett Gallery
Price: This is a FREE event

Looking for something to do on the public holiday? Join Benalla Art Gallery for the official launch of New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design. Hear guest speaker, Clare Press, who wrote one of the catalogue essays, discuss the exhibition and the fashion industry.

Clare Press is a global sustainability expert, author and podcaster. With a background in journalism, previously she was the first ever Vogue sustainability editor. She is the presenter of the sustainable fashion podcast Wardrobe Crisis, based on her book of the same name and now in its 9th series. Clare’s new book is Wear Next, Fashioning the Future – published this month by Thames & Hudson.

New Exuberance explores textile design including surface patterning, material experimentation and transfiguration, storytelling, and conceptual ideas. This major touring project from JamFactory presents more than 30 multidisciplinary creatives working across graphics, furniture, product design, fashion and the visual arts.

Artists: Bábbarra Women’s Centre, Frida Las Vegas, Grace Lillian Lee, Hannah Gartside, Ikuntji Artists, Iordanes Spyridon Gogos, Jemima Wyman, Kate Just, Lisa Waup X Verner, Nina Walton, Nixi Killick, Paul McCann, Romance Was Born, The Social Studio X Atong Atem X Romance Was Born, Tiwi Design, Vita Cochran, Wah-Wah Australia.

Image: Frida LAS VAGAS
North Bondi Dream Apartment Glamour Sack [detail]
Creative Direction: Stavroula Adameitis
Photo: Charles Grant

New Exuberance: contemporary Australian textile design is presented as part of the 2023 Benalla Festival — Celebrating our Past, Present, Future — and is a JamFactory touring exhibition supported by the Visions of Australia touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians.