BIO
VALERIE KIRK
Valerie Kirk studied art and design at Edinburgh College of Art, where she discovered woven tapestry. As a recent graduate she came to Australia and worked in the Victorian (now Australian) Tapestry Workshop and travelled the country to teach in communities and colleges, work as an artist-in-residence, exhibit and lead community tapestry projects. She is an artist and tapestry weaver, writer, teacher and public figure who has made a significant contribution internationally.
While actively maintaining her practice as an artist, Valerie’s remarkable capacity for achievement has seen her research Australian Indigenous textiles, direct significant projects, guest lecture on international textile tours and create major works.
During 2004-2019 she was commissioned to design and weave six major tapestries to celebrate Nobel/Japan/Kyoto Prizes in Science associated with the Australian National University.
Awards such as the Australia Council New Work grant, ACT Creative Arts Fellowship, Muse Arts Woman of the Year Award and the Canberra Centenary Community Tapestry project mark substantial success and her artwork can be seen in collections nationally and international.
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Education
2018- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
1999 MA (Hons) University of Wollongong, NSW
1989 Grad. Dip.in Education Admin., Hawthorn Inst. of Ed., Victoria
1979-1980 Art Teachers Post Graduate Certificate, Goldsmiths College, University of London, GB
1978-1979 Postgraduate, Edinburgh College of Art, GB
1974-1978 Degree in Art & Design, Edinburgh College of Art, GB
Solo Exhibitions
2016 The Past, in the Present and the Future, Form Gallery, Queanbeyan, NSW
2009 Returning Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
2006 Leaving and Returning, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
2004 Journeys, Ararat Gallery, Victoria
2003 Traditions Revisited Craft ACT Gallery, ACT
2000 Croxxing, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
1999 Rock and a Place Between, Spark Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
1998 Dwelling, Street Theatre Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1990 Opals and Images of Outback Australia, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Small Tapestry International 6: Beyond the Edge, tour USA
2019 Kate Derum Award Exhibition, ATW, Melbourne, Victoria
2019 Take Time, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
2019 CORIN DAM Space Above: Space Below, Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT
2018 So Fine, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2018 The Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennial, China
2018 Pin 8, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2018 International Fiber Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2018 Growth, tour Australia and NZ
2016 -2018 Elements, ANU, School of Art and tour Australia, UK, USA
2017 Drawn Thread, ANU SOA&D Foyer Space, ACT
2017 Affiliation, ACT Legislative Assembly, ACT
2017 Drawing Comfort, M16 Canberra, ACT
2017 Trees, Eucalypt Lawns, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT
2016 -2017 Here and Now, National Centre for Craft and Design, MAC Birmingham, Holburne Museum, GB
2016 International Fiber Art Biennale East-West, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2016 Covet, Belconnen Arts Centre and tour, Gallery SVÚ, Slovakia and Amsterdam, Holland
2016 Covet 2, the Foyer Gallery, ANU, School of Art, ACT
2016 Covet 3, Barometer Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2015 discover define develop deliver, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
2015 Spin, ANCA, Canberra, ACT
2015 Cordis Trust Prize for Tapestry, The Royal Scottish Academy, GB
2015 STA 4, tour USA
2014 Botanic Art Exhibition, ANBG, Canberra, ACT
2014 Awaken Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
2014 M16 Drawing Prize Award Exhibition, ACT
2013 Canberra Centenary Community Tapestry Exhibition, L.A. ACT
2013 Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries 2013, ATW, Melbourne, Victoria
2013 American Tapestry Alliance curated web exhibition, USA
2013 Terrain, Strathnairn, Canberra, ACT
2012 Petite, Wangaratta Art Gallery. Work acquired, Victoria
2012 NetWorks, Belconnen Arts Centre and Fibre Forum, Geelong, Victoria
2012 Orirythm, Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, Japan
2011 Tapestry International 2: Passages, Taos, NM and tour USA
2011 Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries 2011, ATW Melbourne, Victoria
2011 Uncontained, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
2011 Lao Textiles, Wangaratta Performing Arts Centre Gallery, Victoria
2010 Tamworth Fibre Textile Collection 1975-2010, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
2010-2011 Nets, The Foyer Gallery, ANU, School of Art, and tour NSW, Mexico
2010-11 About Time: Australian Studio Tapestry 1975-2005 Ararat Regional Art Gallery and tour Australia
2010 Enchanted Pathways, ATA, Santa Fe, USA
2010 Is This Me? tour Australia and NZ
2010 Petite Wangaratta Regional Gallery, Victoria
2008-09 40: Highlights from the Ararat Regional Art Gallery Textile Fibre Collection, Victoria
2008 Manipulate: Construct, The Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2008 Gardens, Alliance Francais, Canberra, ACT
2008 Land, ANU, Canberra, ACT and online with ATA, USA
2007 Lightweight, Dunedin, NZ
2006 Micro, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne, Victoria
2006 Two Materials, Craft ACT, ACT
2006 65 Roses, ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT
2006 Between Two Worlds, American Tapestry Alliance Web Gallery, USA
2006 Grand Ideas - Small Format, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2005 Design-ed, Australian National University Gallery, ACT
2003-2004 Tactile Narratives – Aspects of Australian Contemporary Tapestry, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
2003 Surface, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney, NSW
2003 Lake Mungo, Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2002 Black and White Matter, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
2002 Australia Exchange, Kyoto Seika University Gallery, Japan
2002 The Hobart Art Prize, Hobart, Tasmania
2000 - 2002 Frisson, Tamworth Biennial of Textile Art, Tamworth and tour Australia
2001 - 2002 Lake Mungo Revisited, Goulburn Regional Gallery and tour Australia
2001 Textiles 2001, Artespresso, Canberra, ACT
2001 Consanguinity, CSA Library, Canberra, ACT
2001 Chinese Whispers, The Study Gallery, Poole, GB
2001 Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory Craft Exhibition, Tapestry, Croxxing, acquired, NT
1999 Presiding Officers Craft Exhibition, Parliament House, Canberra, ACT
Drawn in Form, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland
Australian Textiles, Sturt Craft Gallery, Mittagong, NSW
1998 Origins and New Perspectives, Lodz, and tour Poland
1998 More Swanky Hankies, Jam Factory, Adelaide and tour Australia, France
1997 Salon Natasha Group Show, Hanoi, Vietnam
1997 Alice Craft Acquisition Award Exhibition, Alice Springs, NT
1997 Northern Territory Craft Exhibition, Darwin, NT
1997 Turning Point, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
1997 Mainly Textiles, University of Wollongong Gallery, NSW
1997 Lake Mungo - Works in Progress, University of Wollongong Gallery, NSW
1996 - 1997 12th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Tamworth and tour Australia
1996 - 1997 Swanky Hankies, ANCA Gallery, Canberra, Fibre Design Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
1996 Its About Time, Portland, Oregon, USA
1996 Small Expressions, Portland, Oregon, USA
1995 Capital Works, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, Takashimaya Gallery, Singapore and Hong Kong.
1995 Texts from the Edge, The Jam Factory, Adelaide and tour, Australia
1995 Women in a Changing City, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
1995 Craft ACT Members Exhibition, Craft ACT, Canberra, ACT
1992-1995 Directions, Goulburn Art Gallery, and tour Australia
1994 The International Encounter of Miniature Tapestry, tour, Mexico.
1993 Simile, Curated by David Salter, Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
1991-1993 Tapestry in Context, The Victorian Ministry for the Arts and tour Australia
1992 Coincidences, L-Space, CSA Canberra, ACT
1992 Addressing the Chair, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT
1991 Selected Artists, Kybosh Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1991 Alice Springs Craft Award Exhibition, Alice Springs, NT
1990 Riddoch Art Gallery Award Exhibition, work acquired, Mt Gambier, SA
1990 Decorex, Melbourne, Victoria
1990 Moora Award Exhibition, WA
1990 Fibre and Text, Ararat Art Gallery and tour Australia
1990 Small Tapestries Exhibition, Beaver Galleries Canberra, ACT
Commissions
2018-2019 Graham Farquhar Tapestry, ANU, University House, ACT
2012 Brian Schmidt Tapestry, ANU, University House, ACT
2006-07 The Crimson Carpet, Government House, Sydney, NSW
2006 Frank Fenner Tapestry, ANU, University House, ACT
2004-5 3 Jubilee Tapestries, ANU, University House, ACT
1999 Private Commission, Canberra, ACT
1993 Private Commission, Melbourne, Victoria
1991 Private Commission, Alice Springs, NT
1990 Tapestry commissioned for Kensington Swann, NZ
1988 Commemorative Bicentennial Commission for Ararat, Victoria
1986 Fergusons Industrial Holdings, Tapestry Commission for Appleby Castle, GB
1982 Apophis-Ra, Tapestry commissioned for the Shipley Museum, GB
1983 Museum and Art Gallery Collection, Gateshead, GB
Collections work is included in
National Gallery of Australia, ANU University House, Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory, Canberra Museum and Art Gallery, The ACT Legislative Assembly Art Collection, The Powerhouse Museum, The Ararat Gallery, Victoria, The Warrnambool Performing Arts Centre, Victoria,
The Wangaratta Art Gallery Collection, Riddoch Art Gallery, SA, Artsloan, GB, Cumbria School of Art and Design, Edinburgh College of Art, Historic Houses Trust, NSW and many private collections nationally and internationally
Prizes/Awards/Scholarships
2019 Art Gallery of NSW Residency, Moya Dyring Memorial Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, France
2019 Small Tapestry International 6: Beyond the Edge, Teitelbaum Award Winner, USA
2018 Canberra Art Critics Award, ACT
2018 Craft ACT Residency, Namadgi National Park, ACT
2016 25 Years of Service Award, ANU, ACT
2014 ANU CASS Research Grant, Erub Arts Printed Textiles Research, ACT
2013 Canberra Centenary Community Initiatives Fund Grant, ACT
2013 Canberra Centenary Project Funding, Community Tapestry outreach, ACT
2013 Legislative Assembly for the ACT Arts Funding, ACT
2013 Canberra Critics Award, Canberra, ACT
2013 Arts ACT Creative Arts Fellowship, Canberra, ACT
2011 Discovery Pilot Study Grant, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2011 RSHA External Visitor Support Scheme, Canberra, ACT
2011 CASS Conference Grant – SY3, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2011 CASS Research Conference Funds, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2009 OSP, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2008 Australia Council Grant for Tapestry 2008, Australia
2003 FRGS Grant, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2002 ANU Publication Subsidy, Canberra, ACT
2001 FRGS Grant, ANU, Canberra, ACT
2001 Arts ACT Award, Canberra, ACT
2000 Australia Council New Work Award, Australia
1999 Inaugural Muse Woman of the Year Award, Canberra, ACT
1998 Canberra Times Art Critics Award for Shift, ACT
1995 P.E.P./ DEET funding to attend Convergence, USA, Canberra, ACT
1993 Grant to study rug-tufting, Melbourne.
1992 VACB Australia Council Award to attend Distant Lives-Shared Voices, Poland
1990 Acquisitive Award, Riddoch Art Gallery, SA
1982 British Crafts Council, Setting-up Award, GB
1981 Northern Arts Incentive and Travel Award, GB
1978 Andrew Grant Travel Award, GB
1978 Helen Rose Bequest Prize, GB
1978 HRH Prince Charles Award of Merit, GB
Professional Experience
1995-2019 Textile Tours to Ecuador, Thailand, Japan, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, West Timor and Peru
2019 Going Green, tapestry course, CSW, Canberra, ACT
2019 Consultant, Tamworth Regional Gallery Textile Trienniale, NSW
2018 - 2019 Visiting Fellow, ANU, artist and tapestry weaver, ACT
2016 - 2019 Online Exhibitions Convener, American Tapestry Alliance, USA
2008-2019 Accredited Professional Member Craft ACT, ACT
2018 Artist in Residence, Namadgi National Park, ACT
2018 Opening speaker, The Chaozhou International Embroidery Art Biennial, China,
2018 Speaker, International Fiber Art Biennale, Beijing, China,
2018 Speaker, Writing Lives Revealing Lives, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2018 Speaker, Weaving Histories, Art Gallery of NSW, NSW
2018 Speaker, Confident Collecting, M16, Canberra, ACT
2018 Speaker, Unravelling Tapestries Forum, Australian Design Centre, NSW
1991-2017 Senior Lecturer and Head of Textiles, ANU School of Art, ACT
2015-2017 HDR Convener, ANU School of Art, ACT
2017 Speaker, Here and Now Conference and Workshop, Holbourne Museum, GB
2017 Co-curated with Dr Louise Hamby, Wiwa Bábbarra, ANU SOA&D, ACT
2017 Co-curated with Dr Al Munro, Drawn Thread, ANU SOA&D, ACT
2017 Presenter, Fashionably Numb, ACT
2017 Speaker Hand and Lock Conference, Sydney, NSW
2016 Co-curated with Dr Louise Hamby, Ailan Buumer, ANU SOA&D Gallery, ACT
2016 Judge and Speaker, From Lausanne to Beijing, the 9th International Fiber Art Biennale Exhibition
2016 Speaker, Fashion Revolution, CIT, Canberra, ACT
2016 Selection panel member 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial, NSW
2016 Repair, Remake and Swap, Public Workshops, Fix and Make Festival, ACT
2016 Factory Public Workshop, Fix and Make Festival, ACT
2016 Teacher, Sturt Summer School Masterclass, Mittagong, NSW
2016 Selection Panel Member: 15th International Triennial of Tapestry, Poland
2015 Guest Lecturer Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2015 Teacher, Penland Summer School, USA
2015 Judge, Exhibition Opening Speaker and Masterclass, ATW Melbourne, Victoria
2015 Erub Arts Research Project, Field trip Erub Island and CIAF, Queensland, Erub
2014 Creative Fibre New Zealand Master Class, teaching tour NZ
2014 ANU coordinator Flagging our Future, Design Canberra, ACT
2014 Speaker, Prospects for the Design of Sustainment, Design Canberra, ACT
2012 and 2013 Submitted ARC Discovery applications with Dr Louise Hamby, ACT
2013 Convener Canberra Centenary Community Tapestry, ACT
2013 Centenary Tapestry projects: Beryl Womens Group, National Folk Festival, National Fibre Forum
2013 Keynote Speaker with Louise Hamby, UflaUpla: National Indigenous Textiles Forum, Cairns, Qld
2013 Speaker, Designing a Capital: Crafting a Nation, ACT
2013 Curator, Quilt National, Craft ACT, ACT
2012-2013 Selling Yarns 3 Committee Member, ACT
2012 Australian selector for the 14th International Triennial of Tapestry, Poland
2012 Speaker, Orirythm Symposium, Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, Japan
2012 Convener and Speaker, Travelling with Yarns, Gunbalanya, NT
2011 Speaker, NETS International Exchange Conference, Turku, Finland
2010-11 Visual Arts Network ACT Committee Member, ACT
2011 Discovery Pilot Award: Indigenous Contemporary Printed Textiles, ANU, ACT
2011 Speaker and curated 3 exhibitions VI World Textile Art Biennial, Xalapa, Mexico
2011 Workshop presenter: 2011 Arts Education Conference, Canberra, ACT
2011 Judge, The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2011, NSW
2010 Selector for Textile Fibre Forum Publication, Australia
2010 Australian selector for the 13th International Triennial of Tapestry, Poland.
2009-11 Coordinator for the “Nets” workshops, exhibition, exchange, blog, conference, Finland GB
2010 Project Remake participant, ACT
2009 Keynote Speaker, National Quilt Symposium, Canberra, ACT
2009 Weaving Lives co-curated with Ma Mar, CSA Foyer Gallery, ACT
2009 Presented paper on Momentum at ANZAAE conference, Dunedin, NZ
2009 Keynote Speaker, Handmade and Proud of It, Fairfield City Museum and Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2008 2008 Canberra Critics Circle Arts Award, ACT
2008 Convener, Tapestry 2008, conference, public program, exhibitions, ACT
2008-10 Curator, Lao Tapestry-Weaving Dreams and Aspirations, Wodonga Art Space, The Ararat Gallery
2008 Curator, The Fine Art of Tapestry Weaving, Canberra ACT
2008 Co-ordinated, Land International Tapestry Exhibition, ANU + ATA , USA
2008 Conference Speaker, The Crimson Carpet, Addressing the Margins, NZ
2008 Speaker, Textile Design Forum, Government House, Sydney, NSW
2007 Worked with HHT NSW to produce carpet for Government House, NSW
2007-2010 Curator of 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, “Momentum”, 12 regional galleries, Australia
2007 Commissioned to design and Weave Frank Fenner tapestry, ACT
2006 Advisory committee, RESKIN, ANAT’s wearable technology lab, ANU, ACT
2006 and 2008 Lecture, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Tapestry, National Portrait Gallery, ACT
2006 Lecture series Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
2006 Curated, Life’s Rich Tapestry, Endangered Textiles, Duffy, ACT
2006 Winner of Government House, NSW Carpet Design Competition, NSW
2005-2010 Co-ordinator of Community Art, National Folk Festival, Canberra, ACT
2004-2006 Commission, Jubilee Tapestries for University House, ANU, ACT
1991-2006 ACT Department of Education Accreditation Board Supervisor, ACT
2005 Judge, Fashion Flair and Fantasy, Canberra, ACT
2005-6 President Craft ACT, ACT
2004 Residency, Ernabella Aboriginal Community, SA.
2004 Lecture, Australian Textiles, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, GB
2004 Lecture, Lao Textiles and the Museum, Lao Handicraft Festival, Lao PDR
2002-2004 Board Member Craft ACT, ACT
1998 – 2002 CAPO Board Member, Canberra, ACT
2000-2004 International Tapestry Journal Editorial Panel Member, USA
2004 Convener, Women in Asia Conference Committee – Art, ACT
2001 Lecture and Residency Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute, GB
2001 Research trip, New York, USA, GB and Hong Kong.
2003 Organising Committee, Translocalities Conference, ACT
2002 Convener, Frisson Forum, ANU, ACT
1997 Lecture on New Technology and Textiles, NETS, ACT
1997 External assessment at RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria and CIT, Canberra.
1997-98 USQ Packaging 3D Visual Art for Interactive Learning CD Rom, Queensland
1997-98 Convener of SHIFT conference, exhibitions public program 1998, ANU, ACT
1997 Participant in Lake Mungo Artists Project, NSW
1997 Textiles of Vietnam, Lecture to Vietnamese officials, Managing Business in Asia Program ANU, ACT
1996-97 Co-ordinator, Australian tour of Travelling Box Show from GB, Australia
1996 Lecture, National Gallery of Australia, H'Mong Textiles of Vietnam, ACT
1996 Lecture, Convergence Conference, Australian Tapestry, Portland, USA
1996 Presented paper, Asian Arts Society, Textiles of the Lower Mekong, Powerhouse Museum, NSW
1995 Asialink project , Symbol and Narrative: Contemporary Australian Textiles, Chaing Mai, Thailand.
1995 Initiated +co-ordinated symposium, exhibitions, masterclasses, Challenging Ideas of Cloth, ANU
1995 Initiated + co-ordinated publishing Australian Textiles Database on WWW, ACT
1995 Presented papers at Tapestry Seminar, Texts from the Edge, Adelaide, SA
1994 Attended NACHADS Conference, Auckland, NZ
1994-96 Founding and committee member, Textile Network ACT
1992 Attended/Lectured conferences, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, GB and Denmark
1992 Invited to represent Australia, Distant Lives-Shared Voices, Poland
1990 Board Member, Crafts Council of Victoria and Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Publications in which work/writing is featured
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Canberra Times, Review Take Time, Kerry-Anne Cousins, 30 May 2019
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So Fine, exhibition catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, 2018
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Symposium Papers, International Fiber Art Biennale, Beijing, China, 2018
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Clothroads, online publication, Lao Textiles, 2018.
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Seafarer People and their Textiles from Erub Arts, Torres Strait, Australia, Crosscurrents: Land, Labor, and the Port, Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium, Savannah, Paper published 2017, USA
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New Directions in Australian Aboriginal Fabric Printing
Louise Hamby & Valerie Kirk, TSA 14th Biennial Symposium paper published 2016 USA
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Kay Lawrence, article Textile Fibre Forum, 2015, Australia
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ANU Reporter, Vol 46 no 4, Exhibition space: University House, p37, ACT
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ATA, CODA A Biennial of Tapestry Art Today, p41 USA
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Lao Textiles Modern and Contemporary, Encyclopedia of Asian Art, chapter submitted 2014
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New Directions in Australian Aboriginal Fabric Printing, paper presented with Dr Louise Hamby, Textile Society of America Conference, 2014, USA
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Ma Te Sai, article, Textile Fibre Forum, 2014, Australia
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Pasa Pa, article Textile Fibre Forum, 2014, Australia
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The Brian Schmidt Tapestry, ATA, Tapestry Topics. Winter 2014 vol 40 no 4 p 10-12 USA
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Craft ACT, Elements of Place: Artist-in-Residence, catalogue essay – Ceretha Skinner P13-15, 2014, ACT
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Down Under Textiles Issue, 15 p32 – p37, 2014, Australia
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Orirythm, Exhibition Catalogue, Kyoto, 201,3 Japan
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Fred Ward: Australian pioneer designer 1900-1990, by Derek F. Wrigley, ACT
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Travelling With Yarns, ANCAAA, Darwin, 2013, NT
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Tapestry: A Woven Narrative, Black Dog Publishing Ltd, 2011, p43, GB
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Textilforum, Sept. 3/2011, Article P17, Australia
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Tapestry Weaving – Design and Technique, Joanne Soroko, 2011, the Crowood Press, GB
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Nets Project: Craft & Design magazine Issue 214 (March/April 2011), Australia
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Poetics of the Unseen, Roger Heady – image of Jubilee Tapestry, 2010, ACT
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Textile Fibre Forum vol 30 issue 1 no 101 2011, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2009, p31 and Nets and Networks Australia, p35, Australia
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Selectors for the Fibre Design Book, Textile Fibre Forum, vol 29 issue 3 no 99, 2010, p58, Australia
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Tapestry Topics Winter Issue 2010, About Time: Australian Studio Tapestry 1975-2005,
Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Debbie Herd, Australia
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ETN, Tapestry Weaving in Australia, June 2010, p40, Europe
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Phase, Review of Tim Gresham’s exhibition, Textile Fibre Forum, 2010, Australia
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Interview: Valerie Kirk, Patricia Malacher, Surface Design Journal, Spring 2009, p6 USA
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British Embroidery Magasine, Review of Embroidery in Momentum exhibition, 2009, GB
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Essay, Momentum exhibition catalogue, 2008, Australia
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Textile Fibre Forum, Issue 3 no 91 2008, p32, Australia
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Exhibition catalogue, Lao Tapestry and The Fine Art of Weaving, 2008, ANU, ACT
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Stateline, ABC feature on Government House carpet, 13 July 2007, Australia
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Sydney Morning Herald, Government House Carpet article, NSW
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ACT Legislative Assembly Collection of works 2006, ACT
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Micro, Contemporary Miniature Tapestries, VTW, Melb. Aug 06, Victoria
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Weekend Australian 1.10.06, Access All Areas, Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Expand Your Mind, p2 7.10.06 , Tour de Course, NSW
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2006 Online exhibition with American Tapestry Alliance: www.americantapestryalliance.org
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Craft Australia 2006, <http://www.craftaustralia.com.au/articles/20060227.php
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Artist, 367 December 2005, p230 – 233, Taiwan, article by Ming-Whe Liou, Canada
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Textile Fibre Forum, Issue 4 no 80 2005, Australia
· University House – As they experienced it, Jill Waterhouse, ANU, 2004 p136, 332, ACT
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The Space Between, Conference Papers, Curtin University, 2004, WA
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Craft Arts International, Sept 2003, Australia
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Valerie Kirk, Portfolio Collection, Telos Publishing, 2003, GB
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Craft Victoria, 2001, Victoria
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The Textile Book, Colin Gale and Jasbir Kaur, Berg Publishing 2002, p64, GB
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The World of Textiles - Australia, Telos Publishing, 1999, GB
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Catalogue essay, In Touch, Craft ACT, ACT
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International Tapestry Journal, Winter 1996 Vol.2 No. 4 p31 + 2001, USA
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Catalogue essay for, Self / Edge, contemporary textiles from Australia, Australia
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Fiberart Magasine Summer 1996, Winter, 1998, USA
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Fiberarts Design Book Five / Six / Seven, USA
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Fiberarts Magazine, USA, January/February, 1993, USA
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Articles contributed, International Tapestry Network, 1993, USA
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European Textileforum December 1992, Tapisserie - Symposium Lodz/Polen, Germany
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10th Tamworth Fibre/Textile Biennial 1992, Catalogue essay, Education and Textile Art Australia
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Art Forum Lecture, Gender Roles in Textiles, tape at CITA 1991, Canberra, ACT
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Textile Fibre Forum - regular contributions to the Magazine and Tapestry Network, 1990 to present
+ many entries in local newspapers and radio interviews