EXPERIMENTAL WEAVING with Jacqueline Stojanović

Saturday 17 August 2024

10.30am - 12.30pm | Grafton Regional Gallery

Cost: $35 + booking fee

FoGG: $30 + booking fee

Join Pliable Planes textile artist, Jacqueline Stojanović, for a morning of experimental weaving. Jacqueline Stojanović is a multidisciplinary artist, weaver and educator who works with historic and contemporary textile processes. In this workshop, you will learn techniques of weaving on a simple loom, and take home your very own woven piece.

This workshop is part of Grafton Regional Gallery's TALKING TEXILES: Northern Rivers Artist Meet-Up. Following the workshop, there will be:

12.30pm: Lunch & Textile Networking Session

1.30pm: Pliable Planes Artist Floor Talks

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Jacqueline Stojanović is represented by Haydens in Naarm Melbourne, Australia. The impetus of Stojanović’s expanded practice is grafted to her belief in weaving as an ancient carrier of culture. She continues the tradition of hand weaving within a contemporary framework to memorialise the cultural practice of her parents respective homelands in former-Yugoslavia and Vietnam. Her works borrow the vocabulary of Abstraction and assemble a host of materials from the industrial to the domestic, collaging time scapes, memories, translations, built environments, and folk traditions, to navigate shifts in collective social and material values, past and present. Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University and graduated with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015. Following her tertiary studies, Stojanović undertook research in the Caucasus, Middle East, and Eastern Europe to further learn histories of flat woven textile design. Her works are held in public and private collections including The Justin Art House Museum, The Australian National University, along with a series of works made in collaboration with her mentor John Nixon, at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Pliable Planes | Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices presents contemporary Australian textiles and fibre art in expansive and plural forms, altering perceptions of materials, form, and function. Taking its title from Bauhaus artist Annie Albers, the exhibition challenges artists to rethink the use of textiles through an architectural lens as material that is fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable. Exhibiting artists reflect on the use of textiles to chart social and cultural change, responding to historical modes of production and representation, and underlying histories of domesticity and women’s labour. Works seamlessly incorporate traditional textiles including weaving, embroidery, knitting and sewing while exploring broader conceptual and aesthetic possibilities.

A UNSW Galleries touring exhibition curated by Karen Hall & Catherine Woolley.

Presented with the support of Creative Australia. The exhibition began a national tour in 2023 with the support of the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.

Grafton Regional Gallery is wheelchair & mobility aid accessible

Proudly hosted on Bundjalung Country.

REFUND POLICY: Refunds are available up to 1 day prior to the event.

Image credit: Jacqueline Stojanović, 'Concrete Fabric' (detail), 2019, wool on steel mesh. Courtesy of the artist and Haydens, Melbourne. Photo: Jacquie Manning.