Fluid Flax

While women have traditionally occupied the space of working with textiles and fibre crafts, often seen and accepted as ‘women’s work’, a growing number of queer and non-binary artists are embracing and claiming these techniques and materials for their practice. These artists have frequently learned craft techniques from their mothers and grandmothers, subverting heteronormative assumptions and claiming space within the medium. Fluid Flax features six artists who identify as queer and/or non-binary, working with traditionally perceived ‘feminine crafts’ such as crochet, embroidery, weaving and textiles. The exhibition interrogates how these craft techniques are used as explorations of identity and storytelling.

Artists: Liam Benson, Phil Ferguson, Blake Griffiths, Trevor Smith, Kate Just and Dennis Golding.

Fluid Flax is part of the Winter Blooming Festival.

Opening Night: Friday 18th August, 5.00 – 6.00pm

_{Winter Blooming has been Produced in collaboration with the University of New England, Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council, and ACON and has been supported by Create NSW and Aurora.} 

Winter Blooming is sponsored by:

Image: Liam Benson, Wild Flowers 2022. Dyed cotton, thread, sequins, glass and acrylic beads, timber dowel. Photo by Jacquie Manning