TALKING TEXTILES: NORTHERN RIVERS ARTIST MEET-UP

Saturday 17 August 2024, Grafton Regional Gallery

12.30pm | Lunch & Textile Networking Session

1.30pm | Pliable Planes Artist Floor Talks

*FREE

Join Grafton Regional Gallery for an afternoon of networking for Northern Rivers textile artists, and enjoy lunch in the Gallery courtyard with fellow artists and creatives. Following lunch, hear from visiting Pliable Planes artists in the Gallery, about their works in the exhibition, their professional practices, and more. We will be joined by artists Akira Akira, Jacqueline Stojanović, and Katie West.

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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.

Image credit: Katie West, 'Sunrise after sunrise, sunset after sunset' (detail), 2022 - ongoing, hand-dyed cotton, organza, lyrcra, velvet, thread, and seqins. Courtesy of the artist, Perth. Photo: Jacquie Manning.