Marli Popple

Graduate Diploma of Art (Visual), Canberra School of Art, ANU.

marli@popple.net

Artist Statement

I have been exploring fibre arts for over 40 years and have tutored in NSW, Queensland, New Zealand, ACT and Victoria and at Toowoomba Summer School, Quilters symposiums and Fibre Forum at Mittagong.  

From 1989 to 1995 I taught at CAE, Melbourne, taking classes in piecing, slashing, creative embroidery and conducting workshops in shibori.  Media I have used include fabric dyeing, shibori, paper-making, batik, embroidery, patchwork, and quilting. 

For many years I have specialised in shibori techniques and more recently have progressed beyond dyeing to the use of these techniques to produce texture in fabric, creating sculptural forms, often as wearable art or dual purpose pieces to be worn or hung.  These days, my work is more abstract than representational.

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Selected Group Exhibitions

I have exhibited work extensively including interstate and overseas. My work was accepted by the jury for exhibition at the VI^e Triennale Internationale des mini-textiles at Musées d’Angers in November 1999.  I exhibited in the “Fibre Imprints” exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery in 1997, the first exhibition of shibori by Australian practitioners.

My shibori work has been included in the following more recent exhibitions:

2018     Trees, ANCA Gallery, Canberra

2016     Covet 1:  Belconnen Arts Centre;  SVU,Bratiislava, Slovakia;

             Gallery Overstrooom, Amsterdam; Barometer Gallery, Sydney

             Covet 2       : ANU School of Art, Foyer Gallery

2015     Shaping  and Dyeing to Show Off,      Strathnairn, Gallery, Canberra

2014     Synergy – Shibori Downunder, Belconnen Arts Centre

2013     Terraom 2013, Land Art Event, Strathnairn Gallery, Canberra

2012   Signature, Craft ACT Accredited Professional Members Exhibition, Canberra

             NetWorks, Belconnen Arts Centre and Geelong Forum

2011     Out of the Box, Barometer Gallery, Sydney

             Casting the Net, Strathnairn Gallery, Canberra;

             Nets, Barometer Gallery, Sydney;

             Nets, VI Bienal Internacional de Arte textil Contemoráneo, Mexico;

             Uncontained, Craft ACT, Accredited Professional Members Exhibition.