Please join the Friends of the ATW for a series of special lectures ahead of the ATW’s prestigious small tapestry prize, the 2021 Kate Derum Award and Irene Davies Emerging Artist Award for Small Tapestries.

Speaker: David Cochrane (UK)
Tuesday 3 August 6pm AEST*

WATCH THE LECTURE

Celebrating 10 years since the Kate Derum Award was established the tapestry weavers selected for this speaker series will have been winners or finalists of either the Kate Derum Award or Irene Davies Emerging Artist Award for Small Tapestries. This series of lectures celebrates the diversity and scope of contemporary tapestry practice worldwide in anticipation of the awards. 

David Cochrane is a Master Weaver at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a finalist in the 2019 Kate Derum Award. Cochrane has worked at Dovecot for over 32 years, and has been a guest weaver in many professional studios internationally including Paris, Germany, Canada, and visited the Australian Tapestry Workshop on exchange in 2017. David Cochrane has worked on many prestigious commissions, including R. B. Kitaj tapestry for the British Library, and Victoria Crowe’s The Large Tree Group Tapestry which now hangs in the National Museum of Scotland. Water in all its guises is a recurring theme of his work, used for its ever-changing colour, pattern and texture, and how beautifully it translates into tapestry.

Attendees can watch the lecture live via Zoom. Please register to receive a link to attend. *AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time. You can check your timezone here. The talk will be recorded and available on You Tube at a later date.