Soft Power amplifies the platform of textile art, investigating the social, cultural, and political issues of our time through this dynamic medium. Six artists – Karla Dickens, Julia Gutman, Nadia Hernández, Mehwish Iqbal, Kate Just, and Raquel Ormella – each use textiles to share individual messages of environmentalism, feminism, and power.
Embedded with the artists’ lived experiences, the exhibition exposes an intimacy through various techniques, including knitting, assemblage and embroidery, constructed from elements collected, recycled, worn and transformed, each work enmeshed with memory, history and meaning.
Installation view, Soft Power at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 2023, featuring Kate Just, Anonymous was a woman, 2019–21, courtesy the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, South Australia; and Julia Gutman, Once more with feeling, 2022, courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Melbourne and Sydney. Photograph: Silversalt Photography. Courtesy Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
31 March to 10 June 2023
New South Wales
