Monique Van Nieuwland: OPEN STUDIO

 

Monique van Nieuwland’s Open Studio is open at 10:00am – 4:00pm on Saturday, 19 November at 41 Scrivener Street, O’Connor, ACT.

Monique van Nieuwland learned to weave in the Netherlands and bought her first loom in the late 70s while she was working on a commission weaving fabrics for curtains and tablecloths. Van Nieuwland uses a computerized Jacquard loom, which is the latest state-of-the-art weave technology. She is passionate about weaving, keeping it current as an innovative form of expression. Visitors can expect a range of works available for purchase, and a weaving demonstration on her equipment which ranges from simple band looms, floor loom, computer dobby loom to a high tech computer Jacquard loom.

Monique van Nieuwland

Monique Van Nieuwland Artworks: Rift and Purple Shawl

Monique Van Nieuwland Rift and Purple Shawl

 Artist: Monique Van Nieuwland 

Artworks: Rift and Purple Shawl

Poet: Susan Hampton
Title: The Goddess of Hinges Copyright 2022.

Poem:

" The Goddess of Hinges

The morning sky solders itself to the landscape leadenly also I tread towards a rift very slight in the cumulous –  and timorous in my movements I know I’ve already crossed a threshold to a place without visible gates a sort of atrium where I notice portholes and passages, side-alleys where hooded figures are speaking wayside shrines where finally you may leave behind your photos and trinkets, your offerings to such gods as may be and before the weather turns wet the Goddess of Hinges appears— wraps me in a purple shawl, turns me back and says, ‘Not yet.’ "

Passages and Portals Networks Australia Exhibition opening

 

Networks Australia members, ACT poets and Grenfell poets
 Photographer Fiona Bowring

  Lizz Murphy, Poet, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Sarah St Vincent Welch, Poet, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Deborah Faeyrglenn, Networks Artist, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Christine Appleby and Monique van Nieuwland, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Grenfell Poet, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Grenfell Poet, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Passages and Portals - Networks Australia exhibition

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Bev Moxon, Gathering Moss, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Dotti Le Sage,  Frozen Garden with scapulae Photographer Fiona Bowring

Sharon Peoples, Maidenhair shovel and Maidenhair trowel  Photographer Fiona Bowring

Monique van Nieuwland, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Josie  Cosgrove, Deep Blue Eyes, Photographer Fiona Bowring

Rozalie Sherwood, Cry for Peace, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Gail Nichols, La Nina Deluge, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Angela Coleman, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Ann McMahon, Photographer Fiona Bowring 

 Photographer Fiona Bowring 

Passages and Portals 

September 9

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October 19 2022

Networks Australia is a group of practising visual artists, living and working in Australia. We work in all mediums including textiles, sculpture, photography, painting and drawing.

Our exhibition titled ‘Passages and Portals’ consists of artworks inspired by Australian poetry. Poems are often passages and portals, offering new ways of seeing our natural surroundings and life experiences. In this exhibition, each artist has interpreted an Australian poem visually.

The Networks artists have invited a group of local Grenfell poets to include their own poetry in the exhibition, addressing the themes of Passages and Portals. These poems will be displayed among the artworks in the gallery.

Grenfell Art Gallery

Tree Conversations: Digital Exhibition at ANCA Gallery Canberra

Tree Conversations: gallery view, Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery 

Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web Digital Exhibition

Can trees talk? Are you listening? In Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web, Networks Australia share fresh insights into the world of trees. Providing audiences with thought provoking exhibitions since 2010, this group of artists from regional NSW and ACT present unique works in a diversity of mediums that will share secrets from the mysterious lives of our leafy companions.

Artists include: Ann McMahon, Belinda Jessup, Bev Moxon, Christine Appleby, Deb Faeyrglenn, Dotti Le Sage, Jenny Manning, Karyn Fearnside, Katherine White, Liz Perry, Marli Popple, Monique Van Nieuwland, Nancy Tingey, Ola Robertson, Rachel Devlin, Rozalie Sherwood, Sharon Peoples, Susan Hey and Wendy Dodd.

The digital version of this exhibition is presented in partnership with Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. Photograph courtesy Brenton Mc Geachie.

Click here to access the ‘Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web’ catalogue.

Visit Exhibition

Monique van Nieuwland - Work in Progress

Monique van Nieuwland, Wasted 2019

Monique van Nieuwland, Wasted 2019

UTOPIA EXHIBITION - TEXTILE WORKS GALLERY

TWO DAYS ONLY

CANBERRA REGION FELTMAKERS

 AND

 CANBERRA SPINNERS AND WEAVERS

FRI 15 NOV 2019: 10:00 – 15:00 

SAT 16 NOV 2019: 10:00 – 15:00

Members responded to the idea of Utopia, the theme of Design Canberra Festival 2019. Exhibitors explored and translated their vision of Utopia using various and varied textile forms. 

Works are for sale through silent auction - You are invited for nibbles and drinks at 15.00 on Saturday

Quality textiles gift ware is for sale on both days

Textile Works - 70 Maclaurin Crescent, Chifley ACT, Australia

Covet 2 - Gallery Overstroom

 Golden Lung 2 Sharon Peoples, machine embroidery

For those that participated in Covet 2 in Amsterdam at Gallery Overstroom, this is now the correct link to the exhibition if you would like to use it for CV's etc.
Covet 2

Meet Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland (Netherlands, Australia since 1982) is an artist-weaver-designer. She teaches weaving at a tertiary and at community level. She uses a countermarch treadle loom, a computer dobby loom and a computer-operated TC2 Jacquard loom.

Monique describes herself as a ‘weaving omnivore’. She weaves to create conceptual work for exhibition, but also loves the challenge of answering commission briefs and creating practical items. Her conceptual work focuses on the environment and our human existence within it.

 Read Full interview 

Open studio Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland, Everyone, Everywhere, 2015

OPEN STUDIO

WHEN

10 November 2018

TIME

11:00 am—4:00 pm

WHERE

O'Connor

41 Scrivener Street, O'Connor ACT 2602, Australia

COST

Free

Monique Van Nieuwland is an artist/weaver/designer and an accredited professional member (APM) of CraftACT. She teaches weaving at tertiary and at community interest level. Her studio is filled with many types of loom: back strap, inkle band, countermarch treadle, computer dobby and a state-of-the-art computer operated Jacquard loom.

Monique weaves to create conceptual work for exhibition but also loves the challenge of answering commission briefs and creating practical items. Her conceptual work focuses on the environment and our human existence within it.

A variety of looms will be set up to demonstrate different weaving projects and people can try their hand at weaving on a band loom. There will also be exhibition work on show, a display of design processes and also scarves and small woven homeware items for sale.

MORE OPEN STUDIOS 

Textile artist Annie Trevillian and costume designer Tiffany Abbott will also have an open studio on the 10 November, 2018. 

Julie Ryder Textiles will an open studio on 17 and 18 November at the Hayshed Pialligo 

Full list of open studios 

Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland

Wasted 2017

Domestic paper waste

Tree clear felled, wood used for paper production, etc

Monique van Nieuwland

Flora Folio - plate CX, XXXlll, CLlll 2015

Study of sea weeds, Jacquard woven

Silk, hand dyed monofilament

Monique van Nieuwland

Ocean Forest 2015

Exhibition overview

Cotton/linen, hand dyed monofilament

Addresses the depletion of flora and pollution of the worlds oceans.

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Concept for follow up work relating to the Trees exhibition 

Skin

I propose to submit a Jacquard weaving of tree bark structure next to wrinkled skin
structure. Skins protect, grow old and show age, something we have in common with trees.

Installation of Trees: As Above So Below No 3

Deb Faeyrglenn detail of Underground Conversations, 2017 - ANBG Exhibition

Deborah Faeyrglenn, Underground Conversations 2017

Monique van Nieuwland, Wasted 2017

Janet Long, Gratitude for Trees 2017

Nancy Tingey, 'Creepers' 2017

Trees: As above, So Below part 2

Cheryl Jobsz

Monique van Nieuwland

Susan Pfanner

Covet at Barometer

Monique Van Nieuwland,  Everyone, Everywhere