Curated by Vic McEwan, ‘Tension(s) 2020’ acknowledges that the world has long been a place under various tensions. To bear witness, contribute and respond to these tensions, the triennial focuses on the future of people and place through textile as a material and human experience as materiality. McEwen aims to take ‘the tension(s) these artists are exploring, and attempt to bring them together into a coherence of composition: a spatial and visual composition that is sometimes in unison, sometimes dissonant, sometimes sweet and melodic, and sometimes pure noise.’

Julie Briggs and Kelly Leonard, Curation of Shadows, 2020, linen, burnt remnants of work, documentary video, dimensions variable. Photograph: Miranda Heckenberg. Courtesy the artists, Tamworth Regional Gallery, New South Wales and artisan, Queensland
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30 July to 4 September 2021
Queensland