Friends of the ATW Events

Robyn Cass will lead a tour to view Australian Tapestry Workshop tapestries on display at the NGV, Arts Centre, Ballet School and Melbourne Recital Hall.

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Professor Kay Lawrence AM will talk about her recent work that explores ideas of loss and connection through a practice centred on hand-making and grounded in the materiality and meanings of textiles. Her practice ranges across works created with the highly skilled technique of woven tapestry to installation and performance works using humble domestic materials like buttons and string to explore the material and immaterial resonances of our lives.

Prof Kay Lawrence AM is the Head of the South Australian School of Art. Her particular interest and expertise is in the area of textiles practice and theory, especially in relation to tapestry weaving.

Tickets $20 Friends of the ATW / $25 Non-members

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or find out more by emailing us at contact@austapestry.com.au or phoning (030 9699 7855. 

Dr Jenny Underwood, Lecturer in Fashion and Textiles at RMIT, will speak about sustainability in the textile industry. 

Bookings will be available online from mid-June 2012. 

ATW's specialist wool supplier Michael Blake will speak about Merino Husbandry.

Bookings will be available online from mid-July 2012. 

Bus tour to the Art Gallery of Ballarat to see the exhibition Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian Botanical Art. This exhibition celebrates Australia's diverse flora and the way our plants have been recorded, interpreted and popularised by botanical artists from the early explorers to the present day.

More information will be available closer to the date. 

Further information about the exhibition can be found on the Gallery's website. 

Brent Harris, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, and senior ATW weaver Sue Batten will discuss their collaborative process in translating one of Harris’s paintings into tapestry. 

Carol Cains spoke about Asian resist dyed textiles and the art of ikat weaving, part of Asia’s rich textile heritage.

Carol Cains is curator of South East Asian art at the National Gallery of Victoria, and curated an exhibition on ikat textiles at the NGV in 2006. 

At the First of the Talks for the Friends for 2012, Rebecca Coates spoke on the art practice of Australian-born, London-based artist David Noonan.

ATW has recently completed a new tapestry designed by Noonan, Untitled (2011), and his 2009 tapestry is displayed in the gallery for a limited time, having returned from touring with the British Art Show Number 7 in the UK.

Rebecca Coates is a member of the ATW Board. She is an independent curator and writer with professional experience as a curator in art museums and galleries in Australia and internationally, and is a doctoral candidate in Art History at the University of Melbourne.

David Noonan’s work is an amalgamation of fiction, myth and fact. His works incorporate figures and imagery from the history of theatre and costume design.  His works have a haunting aura emphasised by the subdued visual effect of his printing technique.