QUEENSLAND

GALLERY 159, TAFTA’s dedicated gallery space, is at the back of the property at 159 Payne Road (The Gap, Brisbane) and is not readily visible from the street, but a Large Arrow will guide you. Gallery 159 is open weekdays when an exhibition is in place, 11am-4pm, Sat/Sun. It is open weekdays by appointment as Janet De Boer’s office is in the gallery building; ring her on (07) 3300.6491 or email tafta@iinet.net.au to confirm your plans. Anyone is welcome at openings!

COMING UP AT GALLERY 159 to the end of 2009

• July 25-August 9 WHAT IF…? Solo exhibition by Ann Brown; opening 3pm Sunday, July 26 Works are made in a variety of media including Silk Shibori Wall Hangings, Artists’ books, Sculptures made from copper wire, Collages and more.
• August 15 – August 30 MORPHOLOGY an exhibition by Svenja & Carol Wilkes exploring the fascinating surfaces and forms of fungi and lichen through contemporary textile practices. Opening by Janet De Boer, Sunday, August 16 at 3pm. All welcome!
• September 5-20 FOOTSTEPS & JOURNEYS works resulting from a workshop in Katherine, NT with Mary Crehan, UK artist. A number of artists from Katherine are participating. The opening will be 3pm on Sunday September 6^th, all welcome.
• October 16-18 Purple Paddo Patchers Canvas Quilt Challenge – a weekend event only; details to come. The public will be very welcome on the weekend of 17/18 October.
• November 7 – 22 MARGARET PROCTOR presents Claws Célèbre to include wall masks and sculptures, all "somewhat African" – also her "Nile Crocodiles." Preview on Sat Nov 7; opening at 3pm on Sunday, November 8.
• November 28-29 2QAQ Party and Members’ Challenge Exhibition – a weekend event only.

To celebrate the sesqui-centenary of Queensland, the Ipswich Art Gallery is presenting the exhibition Queensland Folk Art, which showcases the creativity and skill of everyday Queenslanders. It is the first exhibition to display the extraordinary creations of Queensland artists who worked outside the conventions of 'high' art. The exhibition features an astonishing range of art forms, including many beautiful examples of quilting, needlework, engraving, woodwork, carving, pottery, metalwork and much more. Queensland Folk Art is shown exclusively at the Ipswich Art Gallery. An illustrated exhibition catalogue is available from the Gallery Shop. Queensland Folk Art runs until August 9. Ipswich Art Gallery is located at d’arcy Doyle Place, Nicholas Street, Ipswich Central (phone 07.3810.7222). Free Entry; open daily, 10am-5pm. www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au

WILD THINGS ! Wicked Wearables  & Whimsical Wonders - A Selling Exhibition of Affordable Contemporary Textiles by Wendy Bailye and Sharyn Hall (aka "The Wild Things!") Fri/Sat/Sun as follows: Friday 27^th November 10am –4.00pm (Official Opening 7pm-10.00pm); Saturday 28^th November  9.00am-5.00pm and Sunday 29^th November 9.00am-4.00pm. Meet the artists, enjoy textile demonstrations and music. Richard Randall Art Studio Brisbane Botanical Gardens, Mt Coot-tha. (adjacent  to the Lakeside Garden Café). For details email bailye@ozemail.com.au   sharyn.hall@tpg.com.au RSVP for Opening night by Friday 20^th November - email or phone (Evenings) 07 32891352 or 33741995 Make a day of it and visit the beautiful gardens as well! (The Woodturners Society of Queensland Inc. is hosting its Annual Christmas Exhibition on the same weekend - the 28^th & 29^th of November 9am – 4pm each day at the Gardens Auditorium.  Entry cost is $ 5.00 per Adult, Children under 14 free, and Free Tea & Coffee provided. Live Demonstrations happening all day by some of Brisbane leading turners).

WEARABLE ART EXHIBITION During September 2009, SCATTERED ARTS is featuring a display of wearable art, Dare to be Unique (this gallery features different artists and artforms every month). The gallery is open Mon-Sat, 9am-4pm (closed Sundays) and is located at 6 Newman Avenue, Camp Hill Brisbane. Phone 07 3398 9370 or email scattart@bigpond.net.au . It is a cooperative art and craft gallery and new members are always welcome. Svenja, well known for her wearable art, is one of the confirmed exhibitors in Dare to be Unique.
  KOALA CONVENTIONS Embroidery and Textile Convention returns to Brisbane for 4-12 July, 2009, with workshops from a total of 25 tutors from Australia and overseas – plus much more. Brisbane Girls Grammar School is the venue; Open to all visitors between 10am-4pm on Sunday 5^th and Friday 10/Saturday 11^th July. Groups and Coaches welcome). Ph/Fax (07) 4093.9474. koalaconventions@tpg.com.au www.koalaconventions.com.au

THAT FELTED FEELING is the title of an exhibition of FELTED WORKS curated by Phillipa Rooke and involving members of the Queensland Spinners Weavers and Fibre Artists Ltd (who will be demonstrating felt making techniques every Saturday afternoon from 2pm while the exhibition is on). It will be held from 9 July - 22 August 2009 at the Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Unit 7/199 Gympie Road Strathpine. Opening hours are 10am-4pm Mon-Sat (closed Sundays). There will be a Felted Feeling Workshop Series on Saturdays in conjunction, featuring Phillipa Rooke, Wendy Bailye and Mariyen Bardsley as tutors, details from 3205.0555.

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Contemporary Tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop are on show at the QUT Art Museum Brisbane until 2 August 2009. This comprises of ‘a diverse range of tapestries from the Exhibition Collection of the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne… For their Exhibition Collection they work in collaboration with contemporary Australian artists, with a flexible approach to scale and subject that often results in pushing the boundaries of the medium and the skills of the Workshop’s weavers." Works created over a 20-year period are included. Among the artists represented by the collaborative approach are Davida Allen, G.W. Bot, Jon Cattapan, Graham Fransella, Roger Kemp, David Lqrwill, Alun Leach-Nones, Reg Mombassa, Jimmy Pike and Arlene Textaqueen. The QUT Art Museum is located at 2 George Street, Brisbane on the QUT Gardens Point Campus next to City Botanic Gardens. Phone (07) 3138.5370; www.artmuseum.qut.com Opening hours: Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm; Sat/Sun 12noon-4pm. Closed Mondays and public holidays.

FOOTNOTES of a VERDUROUS TALE, the work of Sebastian Di Mauro (1987-2009) will be on show at the QUT Art Museum (see details in the paragraph above) from 30 October 2009 – 31 January 2010. "During his career Di Mauro has worked with a diverse range of media including olive oil, salt, Astroturf, steel wool, carpet underlay and, most recently, Neoprene (commonly known as wetsuit material). These unconventional substances and fabrics defy traditional notions of sculpture as weighty, monumental work in metal and other materials…." This is the first survey exhibition of Di Maruo’s work and includes re-creations of installations from the late 1990s as well as new works.

TALKING TAPA Pasifika Bark Cloth in Queensland is a touring exhibition curated by Joan Winter and presented by Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre or BEMAC). Works are from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It will be at Gladstone Regional Art Gallery and Museum to 11 July 2009; then it goes to the Museum of Brisbane from 24 July – 11 October and then to Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville from 23 Oct – 6 December. Finally, it will be at Cairns Regional Gallery from 11 Dec 2009 – 31 January 2010.

At the Museum of Brisbane from 7 August – 29 November: IN FASHION Dressing Up Brisbane: this show "celebrates dressing up in Brisbane by showcasing a collection of women’s fashion, sourced from the private collections of Brisbane women and designers." It combines historical and vintage garments with local contemporary designers including Bora, Easton Pearson and sass & bide… some new designers will also be considered. www.museumofbrisbane.com.au Open daily, 10am-5pm; free entry.

REDLANDS Quilt Extravaganza Redlands Community Cultural Centre, 11-13 September. This is a co-operative event by local quilters and Bayside StitchCraft who have been the prime organiser and sponsor of the event since it started. Al categories of quilts welcomed for display and judging – textile art and embroidered quilts encouraged too. www.patchworker.com.au or phone Bev Steele on (07) 3822.2372.

TEXTILE EVENT @ STANTHORPE 2010: The Regional Gallery in Stanthorpe will coordinate with Glenys Mann to stage a 5-day set of workshops with top international and national tutors in September 2010 at Storm King Day, 15 minutes from Stanthorpe. More details from www.mannmaid.com.au

Odyssey to MORNING ISLAND – tentatively planned for June-July 2010 – with Glenys Mann and Dr Pamela Croft guiding you in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Inquiries to Glenys Mann: mannmaid@northnet.com.au

GOLD COAST QUILTERS EXHIBITION July 4-26 at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise. Open weekdays 10am-5pm; Sat/Sun, 11am-5pm. Enquiries to Margaret Guesdon on (07) 5527.0995 or mob. 0437.427.989.

JAZZ & JUMPERS in JULY takes place again in Warwick from 16-26 July 2009. It will include La Pompa! Wearable Art Exhibition; A Handmade Expo (market); Workshops in Advanced Knitting, Unique Woven Berets, Parallel Worlds and Wild Wearables plus there are the famous Tree Jumpers. There are prizes for various sections. Details from Warwick Art Gallery, 49 Albion Street, Warwick (phone 07.4661.0434). See www.jumpersandjazz.com or www.warwickart@southerndowns.qld.gov.au

Also coming up at Warwick Art Gallery (details above): LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD an exhibition from the Warwick Spinners and Weavers Group, to include an exhibition of selected works from the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery collection. Dates are 10 July – 9 August. As well, the Warwick Art Prize takes place from 2 Oct – 8 Nov with more than $7000 available as acquisition prize money – textile based works are welcomed.

 USQ McGregor Winter School 6-10 July 2009 USQ Toowoomba. Enrolments are now open for the popular Winter arts retreat. The residential school offers a range of visual and creative arts classes for beginners to advanced in painting, drawing, etching, jewellery making and digital photography. Textile lovers will be tempted by Jenny Dowde's Creative Knitting and Crochet with Embellishments class. Jenny has a great passion for colour and texture and many years of teaching experience with creative knitting, crochet and arty embellishment techniques. Her class will explore crochet renaissance and new forms of expression with hook, needles and fibre with total design freedom. Participants will also be shown several ways of adding surface interest to base fabric, including freehand beading, freehand stitching and needle felting, all of which will aide in the creation of uniquely textured garments and accessories. Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to let your creative spirit soar! 07 4631 2755 www.usq.edu.au/mcgregor

INTRODUCTION TO SCREEN-PRINTING workshops are offered on a regular basis at the Thea & Sami Design & Print Studio at Capalaba.  For available dates and more information, please visit http://www.thea-sami.com.au/workshops.html.  Contact Thea Samios on 0411 270 263 or email thea@thea-sami.com.au.

For an exhibition that will have its only QLD showing from 8 July – 16 August at the Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, be sure not to miss ReCoil: Change and Exchange in Coiled Fibre Art which explores the influences underpinning changes to contemporary Indigenous fibre art happening in many parts of Australia. Organised by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring, the exhibition features a wide range of conventional baskets to quirky, two and three dimensional, innovative sculptures. ReCoil explores coiled basketry technique and the way it has spread and diversified, establishing new fibre movements in a range of remote Aboriginal communities. www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/caloundragallery

Jill Kinnear’s exhibition, DIASPORA: textiles as paradox touring in Queensland: Logan Art Gallery, Qld: 13^th October to 14^th November 09 .

STUDIO WEST END workshops offered with Adele Outteridge, 2nd floor, Factory 1, 35 Mollison St. West End, Qld, 4101; Ph/fax: 07 3844 8469 (+61 7 3844 8469) E-mail: delidge@uq.net.au In addition, there are weekly evening classes at STUDIO WEST END in Printmaking, Mixed Media and Book Making.

QUEENSLAND QUILTERS has launched 2QAQ - Queensland Quilters
Art Quilts with Sue Dennis a driving force behind this new initiative. With a core committee working with her she has devised a series of art afternoons in Brisbane -
- more details at - http://www.qldquilters.com/2QAQ.html In 2009 there will be a juried exhibition of quality work on show - details are being developed. www.qldquilters.com The venue is always the Greenslopes Bowls Club; doors open at 12:30pm for a social time; formal meeting starts at 1pm; afternoon tea at 2:30pm followed by Show & Tell - all over by 4pm. Cost is $3 at the door, members ($5 non-members). Coming up in 2009 (first half of the year): On 25^th July there will be a special talk on My Journey" from talented multi-media artist Felicity Clarke. On 30^th August a 3-artist panel will talk on Texture. And on 26 September it’s a play day.

The QUEENSLAND QUILT SHOW takes place from Oct 21-25 this year at the Brisbane Convention Centre. www.qldquilters.com for full details including the competitions and prizes offered.

ATASDA Queensland chapter is a group with varied interests; ATASDA stands for Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association. Details from www.atasda.org.au - it’s planned that all meetings in 2009 will again be at Fibrecraft House, 12 Payne Street, Auchenflower (Brisbane).Entry fee is $3.00 at the door. Meetings and Social Days are scheduled for the second Saturday of four months of the year with the next on September 12 which includes the AGM, and then it’s December 12). www.atasda.org.au or qld@atasda.org.au Workshops/events (Fibre Fancies) coming up: July 23, Crochet Fancies with JENNY KING; Wholly Holes with SUE DENNIS on August 22/23; Papermaking Dimensions with LESA HEPBURN on Sept 5/6; Getting the Most out of Your Embellisher with FELICITY CLARKE for Oct 8 or 9; and In Pursuit of ArtCloth with MARIE-THERESE WISNIOWSKI for Nov 7/8. Contact Suzanne Marshall (suzmarshallinoz@hotmail.com) or Melanie Forrest (jfor131@bigpond.net.au ). www.atasda.org.au/downloads.html

For future exhibitions planned by ARTISAN (was Craft Queensland): http://www.craftqld.com.au/M/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=72 Artisan is located at 381 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley Q 4006; T (07) 3215 0803.

The AUSTRALIAN LACE GUILD will hold its AGM in Brisbane and will include a week of workshops, dates are 20-26 September 2009 at Clayfield International College, 633 Sandgate Road, Clayfield (Brisbane). Details from Leonie Woods, 1 Cumbria Court, Belmont Q4153. An exhibition will be held in conjunction; the Triennial Lace Award 2009. http://austlaceguild.org/pages/awards/nimblefingers.htm