Exhibitions

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ARTCLOTH: Engaging New Visions

Curated: MARIE-THERESE WISNIOWSKIâ€¨
Opened at the Fairfield City Museum and Gallery in August 2009 and is currently traveling in Australia with venues in the planning stages for the United States and the UKâ€¨â€¨.

The ArtCloth movement is gaining significant momentum in England, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, Australia and North America. This inaugural international ArtCloth exhibition featuring print and mixed media works introduced leading practitioners in this new artistic movement to Australian art practitioners, academics, art critics and the wider arts audience.

Click to download a PDF of the Director's Introduction, Curator's Talk, Opening Address

The exhibition includes:â€¨Laura Beehler, USA * Claire Benn, Englan * Regina Benson, USA * Jane Dunnewold, USA * Susan Fell-McLean, Australia * Claudia Helmer, Germany * Cas Holmes, England * Ken Kagajo, Japan * Helen Lancaster, Australia Jurate Petruskeviciene, Lithuania * Jeanne Raffer Beck, USA * Julie Ryder, Australia * Joan Schulze, USA Tjariya (Nungalka) Stanley, Australia * Norma Starszakowna, England * Tjunkaya Tapaya, Australia * Annie Trevillian, Australia * Joan Truckenbrod, USA * Jurate Urbiene, Lithuania * Els van Baarle, The Netherlands Marie-Therese Wisniowski, Australia

	Laura Ann Beehler USA Under Pressure 81 x 300 cms Deconstructed silk screen, painting with thickened dyes, dye wash, mark making with pen, burning, gold leafing on silk broadcloth		Claire Benn England Breathe Deeply 100 x 290cms Dry brushing, screen printing, hand printing, scraping employing fiber-reactive MX dye paints and water-based screen inks on silk broadcloth, backed with fusible interfacing
	Regina Benson USA lo Rising II 60 x 300cms Black rayon discharged on snow with soy wax resist and burned		Susan Fell McLean Australia Shroud of Ancient Echoes II 60 x 300 cms Itajime shibori on wool, using clamps, stitched resists and iron scrim. Dyed with leaves of Eucalyptus Melliodora (Yellow Box)
	Claudia Helmer Germany Die Gedanken Sind Frei 3 60 x 300 cms Paperlamination from own photographs on polyester, silkscreen, thermofax, matt medium, fabric paint		Ken Kagjo Japan Discharge- Thundercloud 92 x 400 cms display size 92 x 300 cms Discharge using paste, hydrosulfite on velveteen
	Joan Schulze USA Catch the Light 1 & 2 60 x 300 cms each Photography, digital printing, collage, painting, piecing and stitching on cotton, silk organza		Jeanne Raffer Beck USA Etruscan Relic 99 x 300 cms Silkscreened, monoprinted, hand painted with dyes and textile paints on silk broadcloth
	Norma Starszakowna England Razing/Raising Walls, Warsaw 120 x 300 cms Screen printed pigments, embossed, heat-reactive, applied glaze and patinations on two sections of part digitally printed silk organza substrate		Jurate Urbiene Lithuania Quite Alone Oasis... 60 x 300 cms Painted, drawn, discharged, iron stamped crepe-de-chine using natural dyes, cold wax resist and mordants
	Marie-Therese Wisniowski Australia Sequestration of CO2 60 x 300 cms Handprinted multiple resist and overprinting techniques employing dye sublimation on delustered satin		Cas Holmes England Black Birds I and II 60 x 300 cms each Print, paint, dye and stitch. Layering with past. Cold water dyes, acrylics, conservation paper, assorted muslin and cotton fabrics. Wax rubbings, ink on found fabrics and papers
	Els Van Baarle The Netherlands Nothing is the Same I and II 60 x 350 cms each Batik, dyed, silkscreened, discharged, stitch on cotton velvet		Annie Trevillian Australia Treescape 120 x 300 cms Digital printe with reactive dyes on cotton. Drawing, painting and screenprinting on cardboard