[This is archived content and may not display in the originally intended format.]
Writing and Publishing
Chiharu Shiota: ‘For me, black is like the universe – you cannot follow just one string.’ Picture: Sunhi Mang, courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Local Colour: experiments in nature opened this week, promoted with the tag line of: ‘An exhibition of contemporary textiles and fibre art.’ Its description offers a pretty wide girth, and yet, this is an exhibition that taps into quite a specific global movement of “slow textiles” which embraces a return to the handmade and holistic, and in doing so imbues the medium with an enviro-social message.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
Instagram: fairleygina
