THE TEXTILES ISSUE – Contemporary Australasian Textiles

Join the World Crafts Council Australia board for an online conversation about contemporary textiles with recent Art Monthly Australasia magazine editors Julie Ewington, Anne Brennan and Blake Griffiths. In The Textiles Issue they explore different approaches to making, individual memory and cultural associations, exploring why textiles are so visible in contemporary cultural conversations, in exhibitions, biennials and triennials. The editors discuss their research and behind-the-scenes insights into creating the magazine.

Julie Ewington is a Sydney-based curator and writer with a lifelong commitment to exploring work by Australian artists and a passion for textiles. She is Chair of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Arts and a Samstag Museum of Art board member.

Anne Brennan is a freelance writer focussed on craft, design and the visual arts. Her long immersion in craft and design, initially as a practitioner then as an art academic, has fuelled an enduring interest in the relevance of craft’s analogue processes in a post-industrial world.

Blake Griffiths is an artist and curator with a focus on textiles. His practice is informed by a research interest in textile thinking. As an arts worker, Blake has championed regional arts practice and is the current Head of La Perouse Museum.

Talk Tuesday 8 October, 4 – 5:30pm, register via the WoCCA website.

wccaustralia.org.au

Magazine: Art Monthly Australasia, THE TEXTILES ISSUE, Quarterly issue 339, Winter 2024
artmonthly.org.au/current

Talk
Fibre, Textiles

Images top (l-r): Camille Laddawan, 'Ref', 2022 Photo: Tash Tylee; Nikau Hindin, Kites, 2022, UNSW Galleries, Biennale 24 Install Photo: Jacquie Manning