Dianne Firth

I work with textiles that are layered and stitched. I call them quilt textiles. As well as making traditional quilts for beds and other functional items, I use the quilt medium as a device for artistic expression and to have fun. This sometimes involves using a range of non-traditional flat materials such as leaves, metals, plastic and paper. Environm...

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Ruth Hingston

Ruth Hingston is a visual artist who enjoys working with a diverse range of mixed media. Her practice is informed by a background in drawing, illustration, textiles and fashion. She enjoys exploring the tensions of paradoxical observations. Ruth's work explores the subtle relationships between interiors and exteriors. Her work focuses on the complex in...

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Morgan James

My work investigates ideas of connection and difference. I am currently looking at the possibility and impact of change, and the affects and outcomes that may consequently occur. My 2003 exhibition Dichasium [PDF 1.3 Mb]

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Belinda Jessup

In my professional practice my work divides into two main areas. - Natural dye and pieced silk for wearable and installation. All works derive from memory and place. - Hand woven production and woven materials for installation work, My practice encompasses a range of conceptual ideas, starting with landscape and memory which is relayed in constr...

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Peta Jones

Colour, texture and form drive my work. Photography is the tool for recording images which form a visual diary that traces my sources of inspiration derived from natural and manmade environments. My work divides into two streams and photography feeds and connects both: 1. I design and make clothing on a commission basis, sourcing fabrics made of nat...

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Valerie Kirk

"Valerie Kirk, respected contemporary textile artist, is a Scottish-born emigrant to Australia whose migratory experience provides an essential focus for her work. Kirk, a resident of Canberra, and Head of Textiles at ANU School of Art, is a consummate tapestry weaver. She traces memories, complexities, losses, adaptive challenges and rewards inherent in ...

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Paull McKee

What makes me tick is thinking. Not so much the processes of making. They usually are a means to an end so in this sense I don't position myself as a studio crafts person. I enjoy crossing boundaries finding holes in fences and traipsing through other peoples' property. I 'make do', that's how I describe my making processes. I gather and fossick about ...

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Martine Peters

In my professional practice I have enjoyed the challenge of the technical aspect in the construction of textiles, and respect the understanding needed to apply the weave structure, which I think is the basis of the design. It is the structural discovery and that choice made, coupled between the technique and the material that I feel conditions the final f...

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Marli Popple

Marli Popple uses cloth as her primary medium, embracing its association and connection throughout time with our everyday lives. Popple admires the way in which shibori techniques change the character of the fabric, transforming it from a flat surface to a complex one with texture, line and sometimes unexpected effects. Working intuitively with the c...

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Barbara Rogers

Barbara Rogers is a textile designer, based in Sydney, with over 20 years experience in textile design and fashion. She has developed unique contemporary methods from Japanese techniques for dyeing and surface design; In particular shibori techniques using a range of dyes produce unique visual effects on fabrics and leathers. She has also incorporated var...

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Julie Ryder

My initial training was in science, working in a veterinary research laboratory for many years. I believe this started my fascination with the micro and the macro - I am initially drawn to the outward appearance of an object or image, then immediately want to investigate closer. Once enlarged through a microscope, the minutiae change scale, become powerf...

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Nancy Tingey

Brought up drawing painting and stitching in the midst of Lancashire's cotton mills with a mother who always seemed to be sewing I suppose it was inevitable that I would end up a textile artist. Though trained as a painter, I turned to textiles out of practical necessity, travelling with a geologist husband and three small children. You could stitch while...

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Annie Trevillian

Annie Trevillian's practice is primarily printed textiles, but she also explores different ways of working to create imagery, including painting, drawing, markmaking, screenprinting, photography and digital technology. In 2006 Trevillian's solo exhibition, Annie Trevillian: Handprint: Design on Fabric and Paper featuring selected work from 1983 - 2...

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