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Fresh Material: New Australian Textile Art
Textile-based art has been enjoying a renaissance after decades of being derided, ignored or ghettoised for being 鈥榗raft鈥� or 鈥榃omen鈥檚 work鈥�, both terms of which are dismissive artworld shorthand for 鈥榥ot art鈥�. Contemporary artists have been reinstating the importance of textiles by way of incredible force and ingenuity, and perhaps most importantly, an intelligent and methodical dismantling of established art world 鈥榬ules鈥�, as clung to by the boy鈥檚 club of the 20th century. Thus textile-based art becomes a powerful and accessible agent in the examination of identity, society and politics. Textiles have grown to command a significant following in a world of a billion paintings, offering its own complex and distinctive lexicon, as capable of expression, nuance and polemic as any other media.
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Textile-based art has been enjoying a renaissance after decades of being derided, ignored or ghettoised for being 鈥榗raft鈥� or 鈥榃omen鈥檚 work鈥�, both terms of which are dismissive artworld shorthand for 鈥榥ot art鈥�. Contemporary artists have been reinstating the importance of textiles by way of incredible force and ingenuity, and perhaps most importantly, an intelligent and methodical dismantling of established art world 鈥榬ules鈥�, as clung to by the boy鈥檚 club of the 20th century. Thus textile-based art becomes a powerful and accessible agent in the examination of identity, society and politics. Textiles have grown to command a significant following in a world of a billion paintings, offering its own complex and distinctive lexicon, as capable of expression, nuance and polemic as any other media.
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