Rusten House - Networks Australia exhibition

Members of the Networks Australia Group exhibited at Rusten House, Queanbeyan New South Wales.

8 – 30 April 2022
Networks Australia
Site Specific - artists respond to Rusten House

This exhibition draws public attention to the history of Rusten House, its architecture, surrounding heritage garden, uses of the building and relationship to community. The artworks of this textiles-based group convey ideas about the early development of Queanbeyan, its health and social systems, its people, approaches to land use and landscape design. There are many stories to be told.

Rozalie Sherwood

Sandra Obst

Susan Hey

Valerie Kirk

Wendy Dodd

Liz Perry

Monique van Nieuwland

Ola Robertson

Beverly Moxon 

Cheryl Jobsz

Cheryl Jobs 

Deborah Faeyrglenn 

Dotti Le Sage 

Gail Nicholls

Janet Long

Janet Long

Jenny Manning 

Josie Cosgrove

Featured Artist - Rozalie Sherwood

1. Rozalie Sherwood, Nyiragongo, 2019. Linen, ink, thread, acrylic sheet. 40 x 40 cm. Image by Andrew Sikorski.

My recent work was influenced by time spent in DRC (Congo) in 2019 - a country disrupted by war, poverty, corruption and tribalism. These works reflect my observations, experiences and conversations, mostly with women. Their lives are hard and dangerous. Making the work was helpful in processing the experience.

ANCA featured artist Rozalie Sherwood

Ekphrasis – Booranga Writers Tree Conversations Workshop at Wagga Gallery

Title	Ekphrasis – Tree Conversations
Date/time	14 March, 2 – 4pm
Cost/bookings	Free event, bookings required
Location	Art Workshop  Wagga Art Gallery
Blurb	Join the creation of responses to Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web with the assistance of the Booranga Writers Centre. Workshop will be facilitated by David Gilbey.  David Gilbey’s first full poetry collection was Death and the Motorway (Interactive Press, 2008). Selections of his poems were included in Under the Rainbow (fourW press, 1996) and the noise of exchange: Twelve Australian Poets (ASM Poetry, Macao, 2011). Some of his haibun have been collected in Downunder Japan and Forty Stories (2012 & 2010, Fine Line Press, NZ). David is a founder of Wagga Wagga Writers Writers, current President of Booranga Writers’ Centre and editor of fourW: new writing. He is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University. Three times he has been a Visiting Professor of English at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, in Sendai, Japan and has been a regular broadcaster/reviewer on ABC Riverina.

Title	Ekphrasis – Tree Conversations Performance
Date/time	Wednesday 1 April, 6pm - 7pm
Cost/bookings	Free event – no bookings required
Location	Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Blurb	Responses to Tree Conversations: Wood Wide Web from members of Booranga Writers Centre inspired by the exhibition.

 Book for Workshop and performance 

Tree Conversations: Networking with the Wood Wide Web Opening

Opening and Artist Talks

Networks Australia artists

Katherine White

Nancy Tingey

Ann McMahon

Deb Faeyrglenn

 Rachel Devlin

Wendy Dodd

Karyn Fearnside

Tree Conversations: networking with the wood wide web

Anni Albers exhibition

Annie Albers at TATE Modern 

"Anni Albers combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern art"

A long overdue recognition of Anni Albers's pivotal contribution to modern art and design, this is the first major exhibition of her work in the UK.

EXHIBITION WEBSITE

At TATE Modern 

UNTIL 27 JANUARY 2019 

Fruit of the Loom exhibition

Walking into the Tate Modern this month is going to prove something of a shock for fine art lovers. The new exhibition on Anni Albers celebrates not painting or sculpture, but textiles. The Tate has shown textiles before, notably with Sonia Delaunay: but says the co-curator of the Albers’ show, Ann Coxon, ‘We are not starting with a painting, moving on to abstraction followed by some textile; we start with one of Albers’ looms and a film by architect and filmmaker Simon Barker of his wife, the weaver Ismini Samanidou, weaving on one of Anni’s looms.’
READ FULL ARTICLE 

Extract from the Surface issue. Words by Corinne Julius.

Open now, until 27 January 2019.

www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/anni-albers

Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2019

The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award is a biennial acquisitive award & exhibition celebrating the diversity and strength of Australia’s textile artistry.

The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2019 CALL FOR ENTRIES is now open.

Entries close 5PM EST Friday 1 March 2019.

The sixth biennial WCTA will be held in 2019. Each incarnation sees professional Australian artists working in any style of textile media invited to submit an entry for consideration within a competitive selection process. A judging panel consisting of the Wangaratta Art Gallery Director and two respected professionals then selects a shortlist of finalists for the Award exhibition at the Gallery over the winter months.

The value of the Award in 2019 will be $10,000 including GST. and includes the permanent acquisition of the winning work to the Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection.

Wangaratta has a long and prominent history of textiles, both in manufacturing and as a craft form. Wangaratta Art Gallery builds upon this unique tradition through the presentation of this outstanding award which is guaranteed to appeal to everyone, local and regional residents and visitors alike.

In addition to the main award exhibition in Gallery1, concurrent textile exhibitions are held in Gallery2 and in the Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre Foyer Gallery. The WCTA also coincides with the biennial Wangaratta Stitched Up Textile Festival.

This program is developed to enrich textiles in Wangaratta and across Australia, it will assist in ensuring that contemporary Australian textile art is highly valued and supported now and into the future.

Website 

Golden Orb Spider and Magpie Nest

Close up of the bits and pieces that went into making the nest and then  the Golden Orb spider and his web. Photographer Bev Moxon

Golden Orb spider and his web. Photographer Bev Moxon

Golden Orb spider and his web. Photographer Bev Moxon

Textile Studio tours

TEXTILES STUDIO TOUR | 5 NOV

SATURDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 2016 @ 11:30AM - 2PM | MEETING AT HOTEL HOTEL

Canberra textiles practitioner and academic Sharon Peoples will lead a bus tour of the
Textiles Open Studios being held on Saturday 5 November.

The tour will begin at Hotel Hotel and tour to the working spaces of acclaimed Canberra
artists including Annie Trevillian, Monique Van Nieuwland, Ruby Berry and others.
The tour will conclude back at Hotel Hotel where tourists will be invited to enjoy a drink
and review the day.

Cost: $25
Booking and inquiries at peoples@grapevine.com.au
Studio Tours Link 

Factory

Fix and Make
A fully operational factory production line will be set up at Hotel Hotel. The textile-making factory will produce a pencil case. The assembly line will open up the various steps at different stages of production from pattern making, to cutting, sewing and labeling, to quality control, pressing and packaging. It highlights the multiple inputs of the production line process – where no one person is responsible for the item being made – and contrasts this to the designer maker’s process where one person is directly involved in each aspect of the making. Visitors are invited to join the workers from ANU at their individual stations and contribute to the production of the item being made.

All Fix and Make program attendees get 15% off their stay at Hotel Hotel. Book via hotel-hotel.com.au using the booking code HHFIXANDMAKE. Fine print – subject to availability and not available on some Saturdays or parliamentary sitting dates.
When 21/05/2016 : 10AM to 12PM and 1PM to 3PM
Where Hotel Hotel, Acton ACT
Cost: Free
More information 

NOTE, Valerie is collecting jeans for this project. Any clean jeans, any colour, size and style.