Please join the Friends of the ATW for a special lecture by renowned tapestry weaver Valerie Kirk, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, School of Art and Design.

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This lecture celebrates Valerie’s recent appointment to the ATW Board of Directors and the upcoming opening of the ‘Make the World Again’ exhibition at the ATW, which will feature her tapestry ‘Fossil’. Valerie will speak with ‘Make the World Again’ curator Kevin Murray about a number of her tapestry and textile projects. These projects explore natural and personal histories and investigate concepts of memory, time and the past as an imaginary space.

Valerie is a highly regarded figure in contemporary tapestry and textiles, who has made a significant contribution as an artist and tapestry weaver, writer and teacher both in Australia and overseas. She studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art, where she discovered woven tapestry. As a recent graduate, she came to Australia and worked in the Victorian (now Australian) Tapestry Workshop and travelled the country to teach in communities and colleges, work as an artist-in-residence, exhibit and lead community tapestry projects.

*Note: AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Curated by Kevin Murray 'Make the World Again' exhibits thirteen Australian contemporary textile artists who symbolically and materially bridge what divides us at the ATW from 1 December 2020 – 26 February 2021.