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Residue + Response: connecting histories and futures, 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial
09 September 2023 - 11 February 2024
As we unfold from the national and global events of past few years, we reveal subtle shifts in our understandings and values—with reflections on a deeper knowing of our communities and environs. Often these shifts or transferences advocate a release of busyness, a focus on personal and communal presence, nourishment and balance.
Since the Tamworth Fibre Textile collection began in 1973 artists have interwoven and shared lived experiences and negotiated stories through the materiality of textile practice.
The 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial builds on this tradition with a future focus on the intangible essence of what it means to be human in the fabric of today’s society and will be an opportunity to celebrate Australian textiles practice, for artists to create and explore the relationality and residues of change through a multiplicity of materials, methods and meanings.
Residue + Response: 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial , Tamworth Regional Gallery, 466 Peel Street, Tamworth, NSW
Exhibition opening: Saturday 9 September 2023
Opening weekend events: Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2023
Exhibition dates: Saturday 9 September 2023 - Sunday 11 February 2024
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Cultural Textiles: Gujarat, India
23 November 2023 - 13 December 2023
Cultural Textiles: Gujarat is a 21 day tour with an emphasis on textiles, especially weaving in the region, Cultural Textiles tour participants will experience the culture, landscape, environment and beauty of Gujarat while visiting museums with outstanding textile collections and artisan groups specializing in weaving, embroidery, natural dyes, bandhani (tie dye) or block printing. Weaving in this region includes patola (double ikat), mashru, tangelia, khadi, weft ikat, silk brocade, shawls, dhurries plus rugs woven with strips of old saree fabric.
future events
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Cultural Textiles: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
13 December 2023 - 20 December 2023
Cultural Textiles: Jaipur tour will focus on the unique textiles of this beautiful city and include visits to several centres where skilled artisans make exceptional textiles by hand. This optional tour follows the Cultural Textiles: Gujarat trip, complimenting it with different traditions, textiles and experiences. We will visit Nila House (Indigo House), a wonderful complex of shop, gallery, library and workshop spaces in central Jaipur; they work closely with artisan groups in local villages and we will visit one for a workshop. On a day trip we will visit Amber village close to Jaipur, we will visit the grand Amber Fort, the Panna Meena Kund stepwell, Ambikeshwar Mahadev Temple and the Anokhi Museum of printed textiles. A day trip to Sanganer is planned to visit its block printing and paper making units. Jaipur has many interesting shops including the Anokhi shore full of hand printed clothes and textiles.
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Weaving Eucalypts Project: Cessnock
15 December 2023 - 04 February 2024
The Weaving Eucalypts Project is a collaborative project that explores local colour, cultural connections and shared weaving traditions. It began in response to a challenge to create a work that revealed the capacity of textiles to connect communities and cultures together. Extending from my research into plant dye experiments conducted into Australian plants and the unique colours extracted from then, the project features 100 panels woven with fabric dyed by 60 collaborators from 10 countries around the Indian Ocean and with over 50 identified eucalypts species, creates an interesting community of practitioners and highlights the unique colours ‘hidden’ in eucalyptus.
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Weaving Eucalypts Project: Wangaratta
23 February 2024 - 31 March 2024
The Weaving Eucalypts Project is a collaborative project that explores local colour, cultural connections and shared weaving traditions. It began in response to a challenge to create a work that revealed the capacity of textiles to connect communities and cultures together. Extending from my research into plant dye experiments conducted into Australian plants and the unique colours extracted from then, the project features 100 panels woven with fabric dyed by 60 collaborators from 10 countries around the Indian Ocean and with over 50 identified eucalypts species, creates an interesting community of practitioners and highlights the unique colours ‘hidden’ in eucalyptus.
EVENTS
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Events include exhibition openings, talks, weaving workshops and demonstrations, studio sales and her Cultural Textiles tours to India.
Her studio sales are usually held in October as part of Sydney Craft Week while her workshops, exhibitions and talks are scheduled at various times. Please see the workshop menu for details of previous and forthcoming workshops. Major exhibitions are shown under the exhibition’s menu.
Liz's Cultural Textiles tours to India focus on artisan handmade textiles and include visits to regional weaving, textiles and natural dye units; short workshops by experienced artisans; presentations by designers, curators and practitioners; visits to social enterprise organizations, museums and historical sites with plenty of time to experience the culture, landscape, environment, beauty and uniqueness of each region.
The Cultural Textiles are currently on hold due to the pandemic but are tentatively scheduled for late 2022 / early 2023. Planned tours are to Gujarat with an extension trip to Jaipur, Rajasthan; a tour of weaving and natural dye units in Western India; and a tour of West Bengal and Bangladesh, the two parts of undivided Bengal renowned for Jamdani weaving and Kantha stitch embroidery.