Texere: New Woven Surfaces On Fabric is the very first solo exhibition in Melbourne of textiles designed by Kieren Karritpul who is from Nauiyu/ Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Texere: New Woven Surfaces On Fabric creates a space that invokes memory, joy & the vastness of the landscape that is the genesis of these textiles.’ In this exhibition Kieren Karritpul has used fabric lengths and various printing techniques including screen printing, stencil and lino printing. Often techniques are layered on top of each other, revealing and concealing time, history and stories. The stories become woven in layers, imaginary, colour, repetition and lines combining to create stories and histories of an indigenous life from a contemporary artist living a traditional life.
Tolarno Galleries will launch Kieren’s newest textiles in a dramatic installation that will showcase textile as a major contemporary art form. The exhibition will feature 10 metre lengths of fabric. The lengths reflect the artist’s relationship to land and his culture. Each length presents layers in a long complex history combining the past with the present. Donald Holt, Design Director at Hola Projects, has been engaged to design Kieren Karritpul’s installation: ‘We want to express the nature of cotton, chiffon and silk in motion: an allusion to flick of a hem & a rustle of a breeze.
Participants
Kieren Karritpul
In 2014 Kieren Karritpul won the inaugural Youth Award at the 31st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards for his textile work, ‘Yerrgi.’ ‘Yerrgi’ depicts bundles of prepared and dyed Yerrgi (Pandanus) ready for weaving.
In 2020, Kieren Karritpul was awarded Textile Artist of the Year at the inaugural National Indigenous Fashion Awards presented by the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation, which led to his collaboration with Country Road Homewares in 2021.
Texere: New Woven Surfaces On Fabric is the very first solo exhibition in Melbourne of textiles designed by Kieren Karritpul who is from Nauiyu/ Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Texere: New Woven Surfaces On Fabric creates a space that invokes memory, joy & the vastness of the landscape that is the genesis of these textiles.’ In this exhibition Kieren Karritpul has used fabric lengths and various printing techniques including screen printing, stencil and lino printing. Often techniques are layered on top of each other, revealing and concealing time, history and stories. The stories become woven in layers, imaginary, colour, repetition and lines combining to create stories and histories of an indigenous life from a contemporary artist living a traditional life.
Tolarno Galleries will launch Kieren’s newest textiles in a dramatic installation that will showcase textile as a major contemporary art form. The exhibition will feature 10 metre lengths of fabric. The lengths reflect the artist’s relationship to land and his culture. Each length presents layers in a long complex history combining the past with the present. Donald Holt, Design Director at Hola Projects, has been engaged to design Kieren Karritpul’s installation: ‘We want to express the nature of cotton, chiffon and silk in motion: an allusion to flick of a hem & a rustle of a breeze.
Participants
Kieren Karritpul
In 2014 Kieren Karritpul won the inaugural Youth Award at the 31st Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards for his textile work, ‘Yerrgi.’ ‘Yerrgi’ depicts bundles of prepared and dyed Yerrgi (Pandanus) ready for weaving.
In 2020, Kieren Karritpul was awarded Textile Artist of the Year at the inaugural National Indigenous Fashion Awards presented by the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation, which led to his collaboration with Country Road Homewares in 2021.
