Opening last Thursday at White Box Gallery within the Queensland
College of Arts, Griffiths University is group show Future Fibre. Curated by Danica
Larkin, the exhibition brings together eight Australian artists whose practice
engages textiles in their approach to art making and I am pleased to be included
in the show. See an excerpt from the Media Release below.
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Student Curator Selects the
Best in Contemporary Australian Textile Art for Gold Coast Exhibition.
Queensland
College of Art student Danica Larkin has pulled a major coup in curating the Future Fibre exhibition
at the Whitebox Gallery. Larkin has managed to secure works from some of
Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists working in textiles.
The
exhibition features established artists such as Kate Just, Holly Story, Thomas
C. Chung and others hailing from Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane. The
young curator says, “we often think of textile-based practices like knitting
and embroidery as crafts or hobbies but the artists in this exhibition show
that there can be a much more thoughtful side to textiles in their work.”
Given
the calibre of the artists in the show it is a major achievement for Larkin who
is still an undergraduate student. The exhibition launches on Thursday 15th
March at 6pm and is open to the public and it runs until 6th April.
Future
Fibre:
thomas c. chung / elizabeth delfs / kate just alice
lang / demelza sherwood / jessica shipard holly story / lucille martin
Curated by Danica Larkin
Opening night 6:00pm–8:00pm Thursday 15 March
Exhibition runs from 15 March – 6 April
