Textiles

As a medium, textile practice is fluid, crossing boundaries with art, design, craft and technology in a variety of ways. Inherently multi-disciplinary, the field of textile practice encompasses a multitude of approaches to sculptural, two dimensional and site specific artworks. Our studio offers students the opportunity to major in textiles, in a visual arts context, placing value on cloth’s relationship to; the body, gender and class subjectivities, and material culture. We specialise in print and construction processes which employ a variety of surface treatments (such as screen print methodologies using pigment ink, dye and chemical applications, and embroidery processes both manual and digital, as well as soft sculpture). Senior students are encouraged to develop individualised projects which employ a range of technical and conceptual approaches to working with paper, fibre and fabrics, in our purpose built workshop and dye laboratory.