Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practice includes new commissions and recent works by Akira Akira, Sarah Contos, Lucia Dohrmann, Mikala Dwyer, Janet Fieldhouse, Teelah George, Paul Knight, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Kate Scardifield, Jacqueline Stojanović, and Katie West, that experiment with materiality, spatial fluidity, and process and features painting, assemblage, sculpture, video, sound, and installation. It reflects artists’ use of textiles and fibre to chart social and cultural change, respond to historical modes of production and representation, and test formal properties through weaving, embroidery, knitting, and sewing.
Katie West, Sunrise after sunrise, sunset after sunset (detail), 2022–ongoing, hand-dyed cotton, organza, lycra, velvet, thread, and sequins. Photograph: Jacquie Manning. Courtesy the artist, UNSW Galleries, Sydney and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria
Art Gallery of Ballarat
4 March to 30 April 2023
Victoria
