Opening | Counterparts & Material Implications

Hannah Gartside and Britt Salt in conversation | 2pm 

Opening | 2.30pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of our next suite of exhibitions, Counterparts: Expanded Textile Practices by Hannah Gartside and Britt Salt and Material Implications by Carole Wilson and Tim Craker.

Hear from the Hannah Gartside and Britt Salt in conversation at 2pm before the exhibitions are officially launched at 2.30pm.

Counterparts: Expanded Textile Practices features new work by textile artists Hannah Gartside and Britt Salt alongside formative work held in the Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection and the extension of previous bodies of work. Using these earlier ideas as a foreground to later practice, large scale textile installations transform the gallery space, and trace the development of each artist’s practice, their similarities and deviations and their shared influence.

Material Implications features work by Ballarat based artists Carole Wilson and Tim Craker who use textile methodologies and materials to create their work. Using techniques such as sewing, knitting or the making of nets, the artists use found objects to create curtains, shrouds, geometric arrays, assemblages and installations in both two and three dimensions. Through recycling, rescue and reuse, each examine the embodied histories of these discarded and oft maligned objects.

Carole Wilson and Tim Craker will be delivering an artist talk earlier in the day at 11.30am.

Refreshments will be served. Book your free ticket now.

Image: Britt Salt, Divergence IV, 2023, plywood and black stain, 95 x 47.5 x 25cm, 2 parts. Photo by Simon Strong.