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Textiles: Accredited Professional Members' portfolios

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Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser

My work is informed by experiences and observations in different places in Australia and overseas. The techniques, which I employ are both: traditional and contemporary working methods reaching from shibori textiles to the design of glass panels in contemporary architecture. My new works are inspired by the stay in Japan and were recently exhibited in...

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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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Morgan James

I have been developing and experimenting with dyeing fabric and embroidering imagery since I was first introduced to these techniques in 1989. My work investigates ideas of connection and difference through the exploration of embroidered floral motifs. These are presented using systems, codes, language and pattern in a variety of formats including framed ...

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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...

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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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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Jennifer Robertson

I draw inspiration initially from the beauty of intelligent design in the natural world. Vast landscapes or tiny details of texture and surface, the effects of light and shadow, the passage of time, the tide, the primary experience. There is a saying Relationship is the essence of reality. At the heart of the process is a journey of an intim...

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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 is an artist, textile designer and screenprinter. Annie's work is inspired by her surroundings and the textile designs of the 1950s. The latest design, The Park, is be made up of drawings, paintings and handprinted designs. Annie uses multiple digital techniques to form repeat imagery and most recently using a digital printer wit...

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Monique Van Nieuwland

Monique's work encompasses loom weaving, Jacquard weaving, printing with pigments and dyes, as well as mixed media. The concepts in her work focus on common human experiences. Inspired by her community arts work in a hospice for the dying, Monique started her Master of Philosophy studies at the Australian National University School of Art in 2000. "T...