PLIABLE PLANES | Curator's Tour

Saturday 20 July 2024

2pm - 3pm | Grafton Regional Gallery

Cost: Entry by donation

Join Catherine Woolley and Karen Hall for a Curator's Tour of the Pliable Planes exhibition, from UNSW Galleries.

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.

Image credit: Anne-Marie May, 'Unforeseen Constellations' (detail), 2022. Hessian backed wool carpet, wool thread. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Jacquie Manning.