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GALLERY 159, * TAFTA’s dedicated gallery space, is at the back of the property at 159 Payne Road (The Gap, Brisbane) and is not readily visible from the street, but a Large Arrow will guide you. Gallery 159 is open weekdays when an exhibition is in place, 11am-4pm, Sat/Sun. It is open weekdays by appointment ring (07) 3300.6491 or email tafta@iinet.net.au to confirm your plans.
- September 5-19 ARMCHAIR TRAVEL – LIZ POWELL. Opening at 4pm on Sunday 5th September
- October 16-31 PIECES FROM LIFE A group show by Suzanne Parker, Noeleen Fleming, Helen Hall and Joanne Rutherford. Official opening Saturday 16 October 3pm ALL WELCOME! Joe Groth will launch the event with a talk, 'On Creativity', followed by Sue Mears (TAFTA Director) who will cut the cake and officially open the exhibition.
- November 6-21 CONTEMPORARY SHAPED RESIST DYED SCARVES a group show from members of World Shibori Network Australia and New Zealand. Opening Sunday, 7th November at 3:30pm.
*TAFTA is The Australian Forum for Textile Arts, Ltd. A not-for-profit arts organisation since 1987.
Exhibition of Textile Art "Elements of Red" by Women on the Edge at the Rosalie Gallery, 8 9 Mocatta St Goombungee, October 6 th to November 7th 2010.
Official Opening 2:45pm Sunday October 10th. RSVP essential by 26th September to 4696 56 00 or email Bronwyn.holland@toowoombaRC.qld.gov.au Tessa Wright
Coordinator Women on the Edge 07 5424 2734.
FIBRE FEST 2011 – NEW TRADITIONS has the dates of March 4-6 2011 and is being staged by the Queensland Spinners, Weavers and Fibre Artists Ltd (QSWFA). Skills to be celebrated: spinning, weaving, felting, paper, books, baskets, knitting. Email: fibrefest@qldspinners.org.au
WILD WOMEN EXHIBITION celebrates the friendships and artistic achievements of the Wild Women of the Gold Coast Textile Group. The exhibition explores textiles to create interesting works of art. Sculptural forms, stunning wearable art, decorative pieces, expressive and unexpected explorations of colour, texture, design and technique. On display at Robina Art Gallery from 9 to 21 September 2010. Entry is free. Where: Robina Art Gallery, Robina Community Centre; Robina Town Centre Drive, Robina Qld. Times: Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 9 am to 6 pm; Thu 9 am to 7 pm; Sat 9 am to 3 pm; Sun noon to 4 pm. For more information contact Margret Tregilgas on 55809335.
Sue Dennis is curator of the STATE of the ART quilt 10 exhibition which was first shown at the Australasian Quilt Convention Melbourne. Its next outing is at Boonah Regional Art Gallery Qld where it show to Oct 3 2010 (High St, Boonah - for opening hours phone 07 54632999). The exhibition finishes its 2010 tour at Childers Regional Art Gallery Qld, dates of Nov 1 – Dec 12 2010.
India Flint , Marianne Hall and Roz Hawker are hosting an exhibition of their work for one night only , entitled 'Wandering Fields and Forests ". This exhibition is being held in conjunction with a sold out 5 day bio regional dyeing class led by India Flint , author of ECO COLOUR , that will be exploring natural dyeing and eco printing from the flora of the local area. Included in this exhibition will be frocks, wraps and fabric lengths, works with paper and sterling silver. The exhibition will be held on Saturday 18 September from 5 pm - 8 pm at 21 Blue Hills Drive Bunya, which is located in the Ferny Hills , Albany Creek area of Brisbane. Parking is available in Blue Hills Drive and Bergin Creek Road. RSVP is not required. No eftpos available. ALL WELCOME.
TEXTILE ART GROUP EXHIBITION: 7 – 19 December 2010. FABULOUS FIBRES – NATURE AS DESIGNER, at Graydon Gallery, 29 Merthyr Road, NEW FARM. The Textile Art Group’s Exhibition, Fabulous Fibres – Nature as Designer, showcases work from a talented group of textile artists, including creative embroiderers, fabric painters, wearable art designers, felt makers and art quilters. This eclectic mix of textile art is visually exciting; each art work invites the viewer in for a closer look at intriguing details. The different styles and genres of the artists add to the impact and diversity of the exhibition. Each day artists will be at the Gallery to meet visitors from 10.00 am – 6.00 pm Monday to Saturday and 11 am – 5 pm Sunday. Exhibiting Artists: Alwyn Bower; Elaine Campbell; Marion Douglas; Di Flint; Helen Forrest; Bernadine Hine; Daphne McKinnon; Cynthia Morgan; Joan Morrison; Susan Pietsch; Fran Robinson.
Mary Elizabeth Barron launched a touring exhibition, SECOND LIFE, at Logan Art Gallery Brisbane during May. It will next be shown at Gympie Regional Gallery from 14 Sept – 2 Oct 2010. Anyone interested in booking the exhibition beyond October can contact Mary Barron: Ph 07 5546 6401, M 0402 167 512, Email: marybarron@iprimus.com.au www.visualarts.net.au/gallery/maryelizabethbarron .
At the WARWICK ART GALLERY from 30 Sept – 14 November: FANTASTIC FIBRES from the Warwick Quilters and Textile Artists. www.warwockartgallery.com.au
The A-Z of artists books until September 2010. By using the alphabet to showcase a selection of artists books from the Mackay Regional Council Collection,
Artspace Mackay has created an informative and entertaining exhibition. Each work has been selected based on the starting letter of a concept or theme that relates to the world of artists books. Cox Rayner Gallery, Artspace Mackay. For more information, contact Artspace Mackay, (07) 4961 9722.
The next McGregor Summer School has the dates of 5-15 January 2011 and again takes place in Toowoomba Qld using the campus of the University of Southern Queensland. Workshops in Bead Embroidery with Karen Torrisi; Hand Embroidery with Judy Wilford and Poetics of the Found Object with Keith Lo Bue. Further information on USQ McGregor Schools from mcgregor@usq.edu.au www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor Phone (07) 4631.2755. (Other workshops include painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery making, calligraphy, woodwork, creative writing, languages, song writing and voice.
TOTEMS: The Textile Showcase Exhibition, A symbolic representation of a group. Sept 17 – Oct 17, 2010, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery. This is the biennial exhibition of the Fibres & Fabrics Group and will celebrate their 35th year of existence. Early inquiries to Barb Neunhoffer, phone (07) 4725.6836. Email: bneunhoffer@bigpond.com
Chrys Zantis offers the opportunity for KNITTERS to take part in her Landscape of Resilience project – an ‘evolving installation/performance art piece which is primarily constructed by knitting in a multitude of yarns and styles. It is a representation of the internal and external landscape of resilience. It is a testimony to people’s courage to live through adversity and find joy in life’s possibilities. People will link together in grups, knitting on the piece all at once, or work alone and add their creative energy later, or Zantis offers to add people’s pieces for them. If you wish to be part of this project please contact: chryszantis@hotmail.com or phone 0412.630.570. knittingthebluesaway.blogspot.com
BATIK OF JAVA: Poetics and Political is a major touring exhibition organized through the Caloundra Regional Gallery. The lead curator is Dr Maria Wronska-Friend, assisted by curator Nina Shadforth. The gallery has brought together two batik collections, one of works from the North Coast of Java (from the collections of Greg Roberts and Ian Reed) and the other which is held as memory and represented in the recent paintings of contemporary Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto. Dr Maria Friend, who is a respected authority on Indonesian textiles has written the catalogue for the exhibition.
Touring dates and venues:
Artspace Mackay to 2 October, 2010
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville: 3 December 2010 - 6 February 2011
Dogwood Crossing @ Miles - April - May, 2011
Noosa Regional Gallery - 10 June - 24 July, 2011
MIRROR: an exhibition of the collages of JEANNIE BAKER. Renowned children’s book author and artist, Jeannie Baker, is launching a new book, Mirror – "a visual story is told, contrasting the hurly-burly of life in Sydney with a remote village in Morocco, revealing similarities between two outwardly different cultures, ways of life and landscapes." This is a travelling exhibition supported by the Australian Government through the Council for Australian-Arab Relations (CAAR). The exhibition is at the Ipswich City Art Gallery from 25 June – 11 October 2011. The Art Gallery is located at d’Arcy Doyle Place, Nicholas St Ipswich and is open 10am-5pm daily. info@ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au
PROGRESSIONS EXHIBITION October 6th - November 7th 2010 at
The Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery. "The group which conducts this exhibition every two years has had a name change from Darling Downs Art Quilt Group to Darling Downs Textile Artists. We did this because we have new members, and now about half of us come from a non-quilt background and we want to reflect our varied interests in the name of our group. However, we are still organizing the same juried exhibition and we still welcome entries from all textile artists if the finished art work fits the criteria." Details can be found on the entry form available from
marion.curry@bigpond.com.au or send a SAE to Pat Sloss, PO Box 3, Kingsthorpe Qld . 4400. Entries close 31st August 2010
$500 FOR 2010 WORLD’S BEST TEA COSY. The Tea Cosy capital of the world, Miles, (in Queensland, Australia) has again sought the world’s best tea cosies, following the great success of the 2005 & 2006 World Tea Cosy Making Competition which attracted entries from Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, U.S.A., South Africa, New Zealand, and France. There are 3 categories: TRADITIONAL; OPEN; COLOUR CODED = PINK (all proceeds to be given to Breast Cancer/Research). The winner of each category will receive A$200.00, with an extra A$300.00 to the overall winner. A selection of tea cosies is presently touring Queensland, courtesy of Ontour an exhibition from the Queensland Arts Council. Winners announced September 2010. For more information, contact Ann Gibbons on 07 46271707 or tedgibbons@bigpond.com
‘VALENTINO RETROSPECTIVE – Past/Present/Future’. Gallery of Modern Art. To 7 November 2010. This exhibition of 100 garments will trace Valentino Garavani’s career from the 1959 opening of his fashion house in Rome to the present. The exhibition has been designed and realised by Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, with the assistance of the Valentino fashion house. Valentino has dressed generations of successful and glamorous women, and this exhibition includes dresses worn by celebrities including Jackie Onassis and Julia Roberts. The exhibition has been organised in Australia by the Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia, continuing a partnership that has presented numerous exhibitions over the years. ‘Valentino, Retrospective — Past/Present/Future’ will be complemented by a special exhibition for children, featuring work drawn from the Gallery’s own Collection, exploring the relationship between fashion and art. GoMA will be the only venue in Australia to host this exhibition.
QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY | GALLERY OF MODERN ART Stanley Place, South Brisbane, Queensland Australia. PO Box 3686, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101 Australia. www.qag.qld.gov.au | www.australianartbooks.com.au
TAYENEBE – Tasmanian Aboriginal women’s fibre work exhibition is a travelling show through Visions of Australia, and will be at the Queensland Museum to 21 Nov 2010. Tayenebe is a south eastern Aboriginal word meaning ‘exchange’. Over the past three years more than 25 Tasmanian Aboriginal women, aged from 7 to 87, have journeyed together across the island in a determined process of cultural retrieval. "The impetus for the tayenebe project has been the desire to reconnect with the cultural craft of Ancestors. Thirty-seven Aboriginal woven-twined baskets created during the 1800s from lily, iris, sedges and rushes that survive in museums internationally are particularly inspirational for these makers." The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Museum of Australia and Arts Tasmania co-managed the project to ensure that the women involved had support and opportunities to express ideas from making to exhibition to writing and planning future work.’ There is a catalogue available from http://museumshop.tmag.tas.gov.au/store/viewItem.shop?idProduct=101
FIBRES STANTHORPE 2010 has the dates of 4-10 Oct 2010. The venue is the International Club in Stanthorpe. Five International Tutors offered: Bob Adams (USA) Discharged Landscapes; Helen Banzhaf (UK) Machine Embroidery: Painting in Stitches; Mary Crehan (UK) Footsteps & Journeys: Hand Embroidery; Polly Jacobs-Giacchina USA Expressions in Twining and Sandy Webster (USA) Idea to Form: Masterclass. Visit: www.srag.org.au/events or email mannmaid@northnet.com.au or call 02.6766.3596.
STUDIO WEST END Workshops offered with Adele Outteridge, 2nd floor, Factory 1, 35 Mollison St. West End, Qld, 4101; Ph/fax: 07 3844 8469 (+61 7 3844 8469) E-mail: delidge@uq.net.au In addition, there are weekly classes at STUDIO WEST END in Printmaking, Mixed Media and Book Making. Also private lessons. Coming up: SEPT 18/19: Surface Design and Mixed Media Drawing with Adele Outteridge and Wim de Vos. OCT 30/31: Papermaking with Adele Outteridge and Wim de Vos.
QUEENSLAND QUILTERS auspices 2QAQ - Queensland Quilters
Art Quilts - a series of art afternoons take place in Brisbane- more details at: http://www.qldquilters.com/2QAQ.html The venue is always the Greenslopes Bowls Club; doors open at 12:30pm for a social time; formal meeting starts at 1pm; afternoon tea at 2:30pm followed by Show & Tell - all over by 4pm. Cost is $3 at the door, members ($5 non-members). Planned: visits to an Antique Quilt Display at the Bull’s Head Inn, Toowomba; and a Quilt documentation day in November at ‘Miegunyah’ in Brisbane.
ATASDA Queensland chapter is a group with varied interests; ATASDA stands for Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association. Details from www.atasda.org.au Entry fee for meeting days is $3.00 at the door. Meetings and Social Days are scheduled in March/June/Sept/Dec each year with the next from 10:30am-4pm on Sat Sept 4th www.atasda.org.au Quarterly meeting 10:30am – 4:00pm at Lavalla Centre, 58 Fernberg Rd, Paddington (Old Marist Brothers School). Traders Tables, Show & Tell, 1pm meeting with Guest Speaker. Social meetings are 10am - 1.30pm at Fibrecraft House, 12 Payne Street, Auchenflower. Join in the special activity. QSWFA shop open 12 noon, Show and Tell. Workshops coming up in 2011: Laminating Fabrics with Isobel Hall, March 19/20; Embellishing 102 with Felicity Clarke on April 9/10; Stitched and Bound Creative Art Books with Sandra Meech May 7/8. For the latest information: visit www.atasda.org.au , email qld@atasda.org.au or write to PO Box 384, Cannon Hill, Qld 4170 or qld@atasda.org.au Workshops/events information from Suzanne Marshall ( suzmarshallinoz@hotmail.com ) or Melanie Forrest ( jfor131@bigpond.net.au ). www.atasda.org.au/downloads.html
For future exhibitions planned by ARTISAN (was Craft Queensland): http://www.craftqld.com.au/M/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=72 Artisan is located at 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley Q 4006; T (07) 3215 0803.
A workshop coming up at the QLD EMBROIDERERS GUILD 2010 Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 September 2010: Karen Torrisi Introduction to French Tambour Beading. More information from phone (07) 3390 5839 or email: info@embroiderersguildqld.org.au The guild’s postal address is PO Box 150, Ft. Valley QLD 4006. www.embroiderersguildqld.org.au
NEW The Collecting Queensland Festivals website has been launched!
From melons and pineapples to camp ovens, Captain Cook and country music, Queensland’s colourful regional festivals feature on a new Q150 website developed by the Queensland Museum Resource Centre Network in partnership with 11 regional Queensland museums. Collecting Queensland Festivals is an online collection of 11
regional museums’ displays that showcase the history of their community festivals and celebrate community spirit across the state. Festival stories, images, videos and memorabilia make up the online collection. The website is the culmination of the Queensland Museum Development Officers’ two year, state-wide initiative to encourage regional museums to engage in contemporary collecting which has not been widely practised.
Collecting Queensland Festivals was officially launched by Premier Anna Bligh MP at the Museum and Gallery Services Queensland’s Gallery and Museum Achievement Awards held at Queensland Museum, South Bank on Friday 13 November. Visit www.qm.qld.gov.au/collecting-queensland-festivals to experience:
• Abbey Medieval Festival - Abbey Museum, Caboolture
• Apple and Grape Harvest Festival - Stanthorpe Museum
• Australian Camp Oven Festival - Millmerran Museum
• Chinchilla Melon Festival - Chinchilla Historical Museum
• Discover Sarina Festival ‘Sarina Rocks’ - Sarina District Historical Centre
• Discovery Festival - Cooktown & District Historical Society
• Golden Mount Festival - Mt Morgan Museum
• Gympie Muster - Kilkivan & District Historical Society Museum
• Pineapple Festival - Capricorn Coast Historical Society
• River to Reef Festival - Mackay Historical Society & Museum
• Woodford Folk Festival - Maleny Historical Society
