Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices
11 October 2024 - 15 December 2024
Artspace Mackay QLD
'Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices' is a major exhibition drawing together practitioners who reimagine practices in textiles and fibre art. The project takes its title from a 1957 essay by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers that sought to rethink the use of weaving through an architectural lens and interpret textiles as fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable.
Using this concept as a point of departure the exhibition presents the work of contemporary practitioners experimenting with the boundaries of materiality spatial fluidity and process.
Exhibiting artists reflect on the use of textiles to chart social and cultural change responding to historical modes of production and representation and underlying histories of domesticity and women's labour. Works seamlessly incorporate traditional textile approaches including weaving embroidery knitting and sewing while exploring broader conceptual and aesthetic possibilities.
Through expanded painting assemblage performative gesture sound video and installation 'Pliable Planes' presents contemporary Australian textiles and fibre art in expansive and plural forms altering perceptions of materials form and function.
Akira Akira
Sarah Contos
Lucia Dohrmann
Mikala Dwyer
Janet Fieldhouse
Teelah George
Paul Knight
Anne-Marie May
John Nixon
Kate Scardifield
Jacqueline Stojanović
Katie West
Curators: Karen Hall & Catherine Woolley
❊ When ❊
Date/s: Friday 11th October 2024 - Sunday 15th December 2024
Times: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
❊ Where ❊
⊜ 61 Gordon St Mackay Map❊ Web Links ❊
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