Out of the Ordinary – Textiles in the Everyday: Dorothy Caldwell public lecture
The College of Fine Arts (COFA) is holding a lecture by Dorothy Caldwell, a textile designer known for her large fabric constructions.
One of the wonderful qualities of cloth is that it wears out, breaks down and is continuously being remade into something new. Stitching, mending and patching create a surface of unintended beauty and the sense of “lives lived”. It is from these ordinary practices that Dorothy Caldwell has developed the vocabulary of marks that she uses in the making of her large fabric constructions.
The talk will address this aspect of traditional textiles and how it has been used as a basis for Caldwell’s work.
Dorothy Caldwell is a graduate of Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and maintains an active international exhibition and teaching schedule. She has carried out research in Japan, India, and Australia on textile traditions and is the recipient of grants and awards including the prestigious Bronfman Award given to one Canadian craftsperson each year.
Her work is included in many permanent collections including the American Museum of Art and Design, Canadian Museum of Civilization, The Carlton and Reta Lewis Collection in Washington D.C., The Canadian Consulate Bangkok Thailand, and the International Quilt Museum and Study Center University of Nebraska.
The talk will take place at 7pm on Thursday 29 April 2010 at the COFA Main Lecture Theatre, EG02, Corner Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington.
Dorothy is visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australian Forum for Textile Arts and teaching at their forum in Orange this April.
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