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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled 2019. Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.

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Pliable Planes: Expanded textiles and fibre practices, 2022, installation view, UNSW Galleries. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

PLIABLE PLANES: EXPANDED TEXTILE AND FIBRE PRACTICES

 

29.04.2022 - 18.07.2022

UNSW Galleries (exhibition website)

Sydney AU

 

‘Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices’ is a major exhibition drawing together practitioners who reimagine practices in textiles and fibre art. The project takes its title from a 1957 essay by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers that sought to rethink the use of weaving through an architectural lens and interpret textiles as fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable. Using this concept as a point of departure, 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.
 

Artists: Akira Akira, Sarah Contos, Lucia Dohrmann, Mikala Dwyer, Janet Fieldhouse, Teelah George, Paul Knight, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Kate Scardifield, Jacqueline Stojanović, and Katie West

 

Curators: Karen Hall & Catherine Woolley
 

Presented with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts. The exhibition begins a national tour in 2023 with the support of the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.

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Concrete Fabric 2019, installation view, UNSW Galleries. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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Concrete Fabric (details) 2019, installation view, UNSW Galleries. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled (pair) 2020-22. Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled (4 units) 2020-21, installation view, Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled 2020-21. Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled 2020. Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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John Nixon & Jacqueline Stojanović, Untitled 2020. Image courtesy the artist, the Estate of John Nixon, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

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