‘Performing Textiles’ catalogue
17 Aug 2019
Performing Textiles was an exhibition of new work by students from the Victorian College of the Arts’ (VCA) Honours in Fine Arts (Visual Art) program held at the Potter in August 2019. Following a competitive selection process, ten student artists were chosen to develop work in response to a curatorial theme focussing on the interconnection between textiles and performance in contemporary art.
Published subsequently to the exhibition, this online-only catalogue documents and expands upon the interdisciplinary perspectives and interwoven roles of fabric, fashion and the body investigated and articulated by the artists. The catalogue features essays by Dr Edward Colless (Senior Lecturer in Art at the VCA and editor of Art + Australia) and Dr Tessa Laird (artist, writer, editor of Art + Australia Online and Lecturer in Critical and Theoretical Studies at the VCA), and the exhibition opening address by Amelia Wallin (Director of West Space).
Artists:
Jack Coventry, Ceardai Demelza, Hannah Gartside, Carla Milentis, Kiah Pullens, Scotty So, Tina Stefanou, Bronte Stolz, Jennifer Valender, Hayley van Ree
Performing Textiles was a collaboration between the Ian Potter Museum of Art and Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne and was supported by a Victorian College of the Arts Foundation Engagement Grant from the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne.
The exhibition was curated by Dr Cate Consandine, Senior Lecturer / Coordinator and Katie Lee, Lecturer, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (Visual Art) at VCA Art, with Dr Kyla McFarlane, Curator of Academic Programs (Research) and Brad Rusbridge, Assistant Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art.