Kate Scardifield’s video Canis, in the current exhibition Pliable Planes, UNSW Galleries.
Textiles and fibre art are no longer relegated to the dusty corridors of art history, where siloed classifications ensured that these mediums remained sidelined.
Rather, today they are considered a vital and expanded practice that sits at both the centre of material and conceptual making. Testament is a new exhibition co-curated by Catherine Woolley and Karen Hall for UNSW Galleries, titledPliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre (29 April – 17 July), which will tour nationally.
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.
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