UNSW Galleries major textiles exhibition

The UNSW Galleries has launched a major exhibition: Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices.

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.”

The exhibition runs at the Galleries from April 29-July 17 2022.

Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd; Pliable Planes