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“Valerie Kirk, a distinguished visual artist and academic, has been awarded the ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for 2013, valued at $45,000.”
“The Fellowship offers me a significant opportunity to further develop my artistic career and contribute to the community. I look forward to dedicated work in my studio and engaement with the community in the creation of a large scale tapestry to mark the centenary of Canberra.”
The project is:
Research and develop innovative contemporary woven tapestry which engages the public through presentation of, The Brian P. Schmidt Tapestry and related works on paper and The Canberra 100 Community Tapestry.
Art Practice and milestones to date
Valerie Kirk studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art and was captivated by the creative process and infinite possibilities of the tapestry medium. In 1979 she came to Australia to become a weaver at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, and then worked…
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Nets – Cumbria UK
Nets – Cumbria UK
Nets at the University of Cumbria
Carlisle, Cumbria; Canberra, Australia and Turku, Finland: an unlikely trio at first glance, so what’s the connection? The answer: textile artists intent on raising the profile of textile arts education globally.
Staff, students and alumni from the undergraduate and postgraduate Contemporary Applied Arts programme at the University of Cumbria have been collaboratively exploring current textile practice with textile departments at the Australian National University and Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finland.
Entitled ‘Nets’, exhibitions of the resulting work will take place this autumn in Australia and the UK. The Alexandra Gallery, on the university’s Lancaster campus, will host the Nets exhibition in October this year, featuring textile artorks by staff, students and alumni from the University of Cumbria, based on their own interpretation of the theme of ‘Nets’. Examples of the work produced by the overseas artists can be viewed in a digital format within the Lancaster exhibition.
Angie Wyman, course leader for MA Contemporary Applied arts and Nets exhibition organiser explains:
“The Nets project was established through academic connections between the three universities and has allowed us to further connect through textile practice. Commonalities, differences, shared concerns and interests have all been shared through a blog. Each university agreed to explore their own responses to ‘Nets’ with individual exhibitions at each location. We have communicated and connected ‘virtually’ through the project; so to show each others textile outcomes digitally and virtually seemed to be the perfect sustainable solution”.
Showing alongside ‘Nets’ is this year’s MA Contemporary Applied Arts exhibition. at the same time as ‘Nets’. Visitors can view installation textiles inspired by the 1930’s home, from Skipton artist Karen Griffiths, and intricate woven and embroidered textile works with animation by Milnthorpe artist, Stella Adams-Schofield.
Both studied for their MA part-time at the Faculty of Arts, Business and Science at the Brampton Road campus, Carlisle.
Karen Griffiths is absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to show her final year work at such a prestigious location. She says: “The MA degree show is the culmination of two years’ hard work and to be able to have my pieces on display at the Alexandra Gallery alongside such august company as the ‘NETS’ exhibitors is just the icing on the cake!”
Cumbria Exhibition
This is our official Nets exhibition poster for our Cumbria exhibition.
We also have a page link from our website www.cumbria.ac.uk/nets
Angie
Wonderful Net installation in Brussels
Nets Exhibition, University of Cumbria
Dear all
We had a Nets meeting with some of our exhibitors on Monday and it was really great to meet up and re-connect.
We are in the process of creating magazine adverts for our Nets exhibition which will take place alongside our MA Contemporary Applied Arts exhibition in October 2010.
I will upload the advert when it is completed.
We are photographing all of our works during the week beginning 6th September and will forward them to you in Australia to feature within your Nets Exhibition as a digital exchange within the project. I will also send them to staff at Novia University of Applied Sciences, Turku so they can begin to populate their ‘Virtual Gallery’.
Also, looking to create a ‘ 2011 Calendar’ showing Nets works rather than a catalogue so we can use it to promote the conference / unconference.
I want to show this ‘Netwurks’ and the Nets Blog during our exhibition and have it ‘live’ so we can feature new posts during the exhibition.
Also, we are aiming to have a film crew in during the exhibition setting-up (very brave..) and also during the Private View so as soon as the footage is edited then we can publish it and share with you all. As we are working on this project from across the world I wanted to show / evidence as much of the process as we can.
I have been in discussion with Kati Reijonnen in Turku about Pecha Kucha and so all of our artists are compiling PowerPoint presentations (20 images and 20 seconds per image) of their working process to feature during the exhibition.
We have also agreed to add an image of our studio/ workplace/ ‘corner of the room beside the pile of ironing….‘ where we work, our ‘tools of the trade’ (referencing the post that Gwyn made about material culture) and finally a view from the window where we work….
more images of Nets….
Temporary nets and networks – from a pavement and a drain grid / mesh (photographed in Colwyn Bay, Wales), through to flock of pigeons outside of Euston Station, London and then, finally, a tree decorated with mementos and remembrances at the stone circle ‘Long Meg and her Daughters’ in the Lake District. In Scotland, I think they are known as ‘Clootie Trees’
Haf Netters on the Solway Estuary and silhouette of nets, July 2010
NETWURKS 
