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.
Catherine Woolley agreed. She described, that ‘every single day we are interacting with cloth in some way… it is a material that is both private and public, [and] we are constantly testing the limits of its materiality, as it is increasingly becoming a site of rigorous critical investigation for contemporary artists and designers.’
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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