Meetings

Meetings
Meetings are held on the third Saturday of each month (February through November) at 2pm.

All Welcome
Non members $5 includes refreshments.

Upcoming Guest Speakers

October Speaker: Jessica Ashcroft and Jennifer Barrington, CSW Awardees from the ANU School of Art.

Jessica will speak about her honours project in which she explores the relationship between writing, drawing and textile processes such as stitching, spinning, tapestry and loom weaving. Jennifer previously trained in Interior Design and has run her own businesses while raising four children. She will also talk to us about her studies at the ANU where her electives include textiles, drawing, painting, glass and sculpture.

Past Meetings

March 2018 Guest speaker: Monique van Nieuwland
2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial.
The Dutch biennial is a well recognised contemporary textile event. This presentation will show works (knitting, weaving, tapestry, embroidery, sculpture) selected from artists around the world, in the 2017 exhibition held in the Netherlands.Monique van Nieuwland will give a talk about the 2017 Rijswijk Textile Biennial.

May Guest Speaker: Ondrae Campbell
Natural Dyeing in Italy
Ondrae will speak about the natural dyeing workshop she attended last year.

June Guest Speaker: Liz Perry
Cambodian silk textiles
Liz has been researching these textiles since the early 1990s, and will show a variety of examples of Cambodian weaving and dyeing.

March Guest Speaker - Monique van Nieuwland
Monique's powerpoint will show works exhibited in the 15th International Textiles Triennial at the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz (Poland) in 2016.
The Museum has been showing international contemporary textile art since 1972 and has collected work from the start. Textile techniques included in the 2016 exhibition range from felting, knitting, lace, weaving, sculpture, knotting, tapestry, embroidery and many more!

February Guest Speaker - Tracy Martens
Archaeological research into Sth American textiles
Caleta Vitor archaeological site is situated in the incredibly arid Atacama Desert, providing the prefect environment for the preservation of fibre artefacts, some as old as 5,880 years. During recent field work, I was able to investigate this collection of nearly 3,000 fibre artefacts including fishing lines and nets, funerary wrappings, bags, spindles, whorls and basketry. The project's aim is to illustrate technological development from the use of single vegetal cords, twining and basketry to spun and plied fibres and complex weaving and dying in addition to identifying introduced technologies and products.