Sights to see on the North Island
If you happen to be travelling to NSW or Victoria, keep your eye on these four galleries, all specialising in textile and fibre arts:
Gallery76 – located in the Sydney suburb of Concord West, close to the railway station, Gallery76, the gallery of the Embroiderers’ Guild NSW, has a wide diversity of exhibitions.
Tamworth Regional Gallery – in northern NSW, this gallery holds a specialist contemporary textile collection and hosts the renowned Tamworth Textile Triennial.
Timeless Textiles – in Newcastle, NSW, this commercial gallery specialises in textile exhibition and routinely hosts international artists.
The Wangaratta Art Gallery – in regional Victoria, the gallery has particular collection emphasis on textile art which has been developed through the most significant acquisitive award for textile art in Australia, the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award.
Slow Fashion and Place-Based Economies
The founder and executive director of Fibershed, Rebecca Burgess, discusses slow fashion’s challenges, and what she learned from a year of wearing only clothing produced within 150 miles of her home.