Crocosmia Seed Pod

The beautiful structure of the Crocosmia seed pod found and photographed by Fiona Bowring Greer.

Crocosmia seed Pod, Photo courtesy Fiona Bowring Greer 

Crocosmia seed Pod, Photo courtesy Fiona Bowring Greer 

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The delight of embroidery now 2018 Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennale

Marie-Bergstedt-Chinese-Minority-Group-artists-and-Valerie-Kirk

Famory Workshop

In 2018 I travelled to China for the inaugural 2018 Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennale, launched in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. It was an important event supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China with many local and national government, cultural and industry figures attending.
Valerie Kirk 

There was a grand opening ceremony with the golden glitter of the “long bar” ritual, symposium, formal dinners, exhibitions and workshop visits. The exhibitions featured works under three topics, “Life & Fashion”, “Inheritance & Rejuvenation”, and “Integration & Transcendence”, and they continued until January 5 2019. Over 300 designers from 13 countries, including China, Australia (Valerie Kirk, Ema Shin, Sera Waters and Jane Theau), Poland, Denmark, Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands, Canada, USA, Norway, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland were represented.

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Tree Project - Thread Bearing Witness

Thread Bearing Witness, Photographer Liz Perry

For those who participated in the Thread Bearing Witness project, Liz Perry was in Manchester and saw the finished community art work facilitated by Alice Kettle.

Several Networks members joined a stitching event at National Arboretum last year in February to contribute to it.

A wonderful result! 

Read more about Thread bearing Witness project  
The Whitworth 

Textile Residencies

Textílsetur Íslands, or in English: The Icelandic Textile Center is situated in the scenic seaside Northwestern town of Blönduós. Textílsetur aims to promote or develop Icelandic and international textiles and to encourage research as well as education in the field of textile art and design. The Textílsetur Residency provides visiting students, scholars, and artists with working spaces to conduct their artistic practice, research, and study-trips within textiles.

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Hurleyville Maker’s Lab Artist Residency Program - Ongoing

Disciplines: Animation, Architecture, Art Education, Ceramics, Community, Crafts & Trades, Dance, Design, Digital, Experimental, Film & Video, Installation, Media Arts, Music & Sound, Pedagogy, Performance, Photography, Science, Sculpture, Technology, Textile, Theater, Visual Arts.

Location: Hurleyville, New York, United States

Duration: 1 to 3 months

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Textile Arts Center's Artist in Residence (TAC AIR) program equips emerging artists and designers with resources and skills to better articulate their practices and contribute to their communities. Situated at the intersection of a studio residency and an academic program, TAC AIR combines studio access with a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, regular critical dialogue and mentorship. The residency culminates in a group exhibition hosted by TAC together with a partner gallery, which showcases and promotes residents’ work at both a regional and national level through additional catalogue materials. Since 2010, AIR has graduated over fifty artists and designers whose work is now galvanizing the fashion, fine arts, and design industries. Our alumni are involved in a broad range of arts activities, including arts education, women’s international development, social activism, fashion and tech entrepreneurship, fine arts, regional makers movements and local community development initiatives.

Meet the artists in AIR Cycle 10 (October 2018 - June 2019)

​ Learn more about the AIR program + application process

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Artist-In-Residence

Sturt Craft Centre invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the Sturt Artist-in-Residence program.  Residencies occur in the craft disciplines of ceramics, jewellery/metalwork, textiles and woodwork. Four to six residencies occur at Sturt each year.

Sturt encourages small scale production and individually designed work which may be promoted through Sturt Gallery. 

Each year professional residencies may be awarded specifically to develop a body of work which can be produced and made, at Sturt, during the Residency time.

Sturt sees the residency program as an important adjunct to its overall aim of providing support for Australian contemporary craft and design through a program of teaching, retail, exhibition and residencies. The emphasis of the residency program will be to support craftspeople and designer-makers who are sympathetic to this philosophy.

Three categories of residency are available:
• Professional Residency
• Self Directed Residency
• Graduate Residency

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Public Art Opportunities

Departed 2016, Yandell Walton, Wagga Wagga Civic Centre, Wollundry Lagoon. Photo credit Andrew Hagan

Performance/Installation/Ephemeral work for the event Date Night (up to $10,000)

Creative proposals are sought by artists willing to enliven the event Date Night, on the evening of February 14, 2019.
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NightLights Projection Commission and Lab ($20,000)

Wagga Wagga City Council is seeking Expressions of Interest from leading Australian digital projection artists for a two week residency in Wagga Wagga.
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BrightLights Projection Commission and Workshop ($10,000)

Wagga Wagga City Council is seeking Expressions of Interest from leading Australian digital projection artists for an exciting youth projection program, BrightLights.

More information

Expression of Interest Guidelines (PDF, 683.9 KB)

Apply now through SmartyGrants

Applications can be submitted until 12pm EST, Monday 7 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.’
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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

Katherine White Into the Forest

Katherine White with stencil print Into the Forest,at her Open Studio exhibition in May 2018.

Katherine with shadow puppets and stencil print,
 at Into the Forest exhibition

Bev Thomas

Bev Thomas, Rivers of Time 15cmx15cm.

Magpie Nets

Magpie nets, National Arboretum Canberra. Photographer Marli Popple

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Rachel Develin

Rachel Develin, Let Your Light Shine 2013, Installation,  poultry wish bones and copper wire

Rachel Develin, Let Your Light Shine 2013, Poultry wish bones and copper wire

 Sacred
M16 Gallery
November 2013
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Spider Web

An interesting and beautiful net.

Spider's web, Queensland.  Image supplied by Nancy Tingey 2015

Monique van Nieuwland

Monique van Nieuwland ~ Contemporary weaving

Sturt Gallery - from 7 June to 19 July 2015

Exhibition Opening Sunday 7 June at 11am
To be opened by Meredith Hinchliffe, curator and writer 'Sound Vignettes' by Madeleine Cocolas FLOOR TALK by the artist at 2pm in the gallery

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"Sea monsters show the world on the edge

‘Ocean Forest’ is a new exhibition of contemporary weaving by Monique van Nieuwland, featuring sound vignettes by Madeleine Cocolas, designed to challenge our thinking about the beauty of our ocean flora and the threats to this fragile environment created by the modern world.

References to mid 18 hundreds of Australian marine flora are used to create an ocean forest installation, consisting of damask woven panels suspended in mid space.  On the walls is a series of smaller Jacquard woven images. Some of these interpret the 1850-60’s W. H. Harvey  botanic drawings of marine flora and some reinterpret depictions of sea monsters from early world maps.

These monsters represent vortexes in the world’s oceans where much of the world’s plastic waste has been discovered to converge, forming large, menacing floating masses, submerged below the surface."

Sharon Peoples

 Next installment:

Sharon Peoples, Golden Lungs 2015,  machine embroidery

Sharon Peoples, Diamond Lungs 2015,  machine embroidery

I directly made an embroidery working from my recent drawings and sketches just to see how they would go. Usually there is a slight 'lost in translation' between a drawing and the lace technique I use. disappointingly this did not happen. It was quite boring I felt. The diamond shape with lung insertions didn't express anything I was setting out to do.
 
I resorted to a familiar way of working -using the imagery of lungs. I have been working with these for the last few years but this seemed  a little easy in one sense. I changed threads to metal and, at last, I felt like I was getting somewhere. I think I was making things a little too complicated in one way - trying to fit in a lot of ideas when perhaps this was not necessary. Anyway for the moment I feel like a new path has opened up. 


I am also working on a very much larger piece, so have been resolving things between the two formats. I will keep you posted later on this work.

Open Studio - Katherine White

 Katherine White

Open Studio

 
Katherine White, Grey Rocks sketch, 2015
Katherine White, Guerilla Bay Sketch, 2015
Katherine White, Guerilla Bay Island and Cliff sketches, 2015

Katherine White will be opening her studio as part of Open Studio Eurobodalla on 

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May 2015, 11am to 4pm. All are welcome to view recent drawings 

and other art works inspired by local cliffs, islands and beaches.
 

whitekatherine1 (at) gmail.com
 

Jenny Manning - Vessel

JENNY MANNING

VESSEL

An exhibition at Form Gallery, Queanbeyan

19 April – 11 May 2016

Artist’s Statement
The main themes and subject matter of this exhibition focus upon the container or vessel and their relevance to human culture. Through a variety of processes from drawing and painting to coiling and ceramic decoration, I have created works that use pattern and form to reference the decorative aesthetic of Islamic, Mayan, Jomon or Navaho cultures. 


The symmetry and colour of the patterns in the drawings, baskets and ceramics are dictated by both the circularity of the form and the slow decorative process whether it be in pen and ink, pencil, coloured yarn or underglaze. 


Creating the baskets is a process that is both meditative and satisfying. It is slow and repetitive, with each wrapped stitch gradually building the pattern. The colour changes happen progressively and the form appears over months of time. Sometimes the pattern evolves from the coiling, spiralling process of wrapping plastic tubing with coloured yarn, but sometimes the pattern follows a predetermined design. 

Form Studio and Gallery 

Openings: Netting and Looping with Pat Hickman

Image: Constellation, Patricia Hickman, Gold thread and cocoons

This workshop will encourage participants to explore visual ideas suggested through openwork textile structure, primarily that of knotted netting and knotless netting. Reserving space for air and the importance of what is "not there" will be built into conceptually based quick studies and studio projects, both 2-D and 3-D. There will be exploration using a variety of materials. In addition to learning these openwork techniques, it will be an experience in discovery, questioning, and ongoing ways of working. No previous knowledge of these textile structures is required, just a willingness to explore and learn.

Pat Hickman was, until recently, Professor of Art and Head of the Fiber Program at the University of Hawaii. She now lives and works in the Lower Hudson Valley in NY. She is affiliated with the Phoenix Gallery in NYC and with Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. Hickman exhibits her work extensively and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Hickman twice received NEA Individual Artist’s Grants. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the American Craft Council. She is Past President (2010-2012) of the Textile Society of America. Hickman curated traveling exhibits: Innerskins/Outerskins: Gut and Fishskin and Baskets: Redefining Volume and Meaning. Her work is in several major collections, including the Oakland Museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Hawaii State Art Museum, and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. In Hawaii, Hickman’s commission, Nets of Makali’i–Nets of the Pleiades, stands as monumental entrance gates for the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

To book your place
Email: kirsty.darlaston@anu.edu.au
Phone: 6125 5883
Materials list will be forwarded after booking

Nets Exhibition Geelong 2012 - Artists Work

Catherine Dabron

Catherine Dabron

Catherine Dabron

Gwyn Hunt

Joyce Woodcock

Avril Douglas

Gill Ferguson

Sarah Harrison

Monique van Nieuwland, detail

Jan Goodey

Angie Wyman

Aly de Groot

Allison Murphy

Wendy Dodd

Bev Moxom

Rosina Wainwright

Katherine White, Shark Nets 2012

Aly de Groot

Aly de Groot

Evelyn Roth

NETs meeting 2nd November 2011

Present: Lynne Johnson, Rosina Wainwright, Valerie Kirk, Nancy Tingey, Wendy Dodd, Monique van Nieuwland, Catherine Dabron, Marli Popple, Gabriella Hegyes, Helen Martin.

Discussion

The role of the group:

1          2 future exhibitions

2          It is a networking group which may not always have as its subject nets.

3          What will happen to our relationship with the two overseas groups who were originally involved?

Rosina is looking for a female model, please contact her if you know someone who may be interested.

1 We currently have three blog sites.  It was decided that Valerie will contact Belinda Jessup to decide on a site and put a message on the two sites we are not using directing people to the site in use.  Belinda will also be asked if she would mind training the people having trouble posting on the site.

2. Valerie then gave a review of the symposium (which turned out to be a non-event) in Finland using the slides she had taken.

3. Review of Casting the Net:

Finances to be sorted out in the next few days– is there enough money to cover the catalogues?

Refreshments for the opening: Rosina said there weren’t enough glasses which meant her husband spent the evening washing them.  Rosina recommended the following three things for any future exhibition.

            1 Someone needs to stay beside the food

            2 Someone needs to be designated to wash up

            3 Someone needs to be designated to assist the VIPs

Everyone agreed Chris Bourke had done an excellent job of opening the exhibition and had obviously done a lot of preparation.  We will send him a thank you card.

Thanks were given to Gabriella, Nancy and Paula for all their work for the exhibition.

Everyone agreed the hanging looked great.

Did anyone see anything in the newspapers on the exhibition?

Nancy will speak to Leah about compensation for the disruption caused by the renovations during the exhibition.

Watson was suggested as another good exhibition space.

4. Janet de Boer has suggested we might have an exhibition at the Geelong Forum next year.  This would be a joint exhibition with Angie Wyman’s group from Cumbria University as Angie will probably be teaching a class at the Geelong Forum.

            The two exhibition spaces at Geelong were discussed and it was thought that the top space was better.  Lynne has some images of the space which might help our decision.

            Valerie will liaise with Janet and Angie.

            We will need to decide on the exhibition name and costs, how to get the items there.  Dates? 23^rd to 29^th September 2012.

            It was considered that this is an excellent opportunity for our work to be seen more widely as the forum open day also attracts visitors from Geelong and Melbourne.

5. We have been approached by the Belconnen Arts Centre to exhibit from17th August to 2^nd September.

            It was suggested that it should be new work so the items from the BAC exhibition could then go the Geelong as the dates are so close together.

            We need to set the dates for meetings next year – the first will be on Saturday 18^th February at Belconnen Arts Centre.  Gabriella will contact Jackie at BAC for a preliminary meeting to see whether the cost will be the same as this year’s schedule and sound Jackie out to see whether she would curate the exhibition.

            Valerie suggested we might be able to tour this exhibition in which case we would need to apply for funding.

            Gabriella has applied for a residency at Strathnairn in 2013 and we could have an exhibition there at the same time.

6. Balba has suggested she could take a billum tour of New Guinea.  It would be in September next year at the time of the Goroka Show.  This may clash with our exhibitions.  Nancy will keep in touch with Balba and send out information to the Basket Makers.

Nets Exhibition at Strathnairn Gallery

Anita McIntyre and Dr Christopher Bourke

Anita McIntyre and Dr Christopher Bourke

Dr Christopher Bourke and Nancy Tingey

Dr Christopher Bourke, Gabriella  and Nancy Tingey

Rosina