Since 2017, when Fernando do Campo first learnt of the curious story about house sparrows being released off the Bull & Mouth Hotel balcony Ararat, in 1867 (alongside Melbourne, Ararat is the first place where this …
Within the Ararat Gallery TAMA Collection, there is a sub-collection of miniature textile artworks. The majority of these miniatures were acquired in the 1980s, when the Gallery hosted a series of Biennial Acquisitive Exhibitions. The Biennials …
Tamworth Regional Gallery founded the Fibre Textile Collection in the 1970s. This exhibition showcases the strengths and diversity of the collection over the last 50 years. Inspired by the National Gallery of Australia’s national program Know …
Kait James: Red Flags is Wadawurrung artist Kait James’ most ambitious solo exhibition to date. Since 2018, James has been carving out a unique visual language based in the reappropriation of racialised products. Colloquially identified as …
Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) has been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s. We are custodians of …
Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed …
Rosemary Eagle is an artist living and working from a home-based studio in Ararat. Rosemary’s studio is part of what used to be stables for the local baker’s horses in 1926, a rambling old building clad in corrugated …
To make (our ideas) visible and tangible, we need light and material, any material. And any material can take on the burden of what has been brewing in our consciousness or subconsciousness, in our awareness or …
In conversations across time, the multi-disciplinary works of mother and daughter Heather and Kate Dorrough explore the nexus between the arts and crafts movements, female creative lineage, body and landscape, river and fertility, and environmental issues …
Since 2015, the Tapestry Design Prize for Architects (TDPA) has fostered exciting new creative dialogues between architects and tapestry weavers. In 2023, architects were challenged to design a tapestry for Kerstin Thompson Architect’s Bundanon Art Museum. …
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Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed …
Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, Ararat Gallery TAMA (Textile Art Museum Australia) has been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s. We are custodians of …
Panoply is an emergency shelter that aims to provide a place of retreat and safety in the first stage of displacement. Motivated by the uncertainty of life and a fascination for textiles and architecture, this project …