SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

TAPESTRY 2008 - The Fine Art of Weaving
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

School of Art
Lecture Theatre
TIME
SPEAKER
FRIDAY 2 MAY
8.00
Registration and bookings for Friday night Lao dinner. Lecture Theatre, School of Art.

9.00
Welcome – Gordon Bull, Head of School of Art, ANU.
CHAIR:
Valerie Kirk
9.10 – 10.00
Annika Ekdahl – Road Movie(Verdure): Visiting Mom


10.00-10.30
Fiona Rutherford – Issey Miyake and Tapestry

TEA
10.30-11
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CHAIR:
Brett Alexander
11.00-11.30
Diana Wood Conroy- Tapestry as tesserae and fresco: the hidden weaves of Late Roman antiquity

11.30-12.00
Nancy Hoskins - Tut to Tiraz

12.00-12.30
Susan Martin Maffei - Pre-Columbian(Andean) Tapestry and Its Relevance to 20th Century Painting

DEMONSTRATION
LUNCH
12.30 -1.30
Mrs Kommaly Chanthavong, Foyer Gallery.
Textiles Workshop
CHAIR:
Annie Trevillian
1.30 – 2.00
GW Bot -
The making of 'Glyphs' at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop'


2.00 – 2.30
Nell -
The making of "Let me put my love into you" at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop”
TEA
2.30 – 3.00
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CHAIR:
Linda Wallace
3.00 – 4.00
Sue Lawty - Embedded and Released


4.00 – 5.00
Clio Padovani - film and Jessica Hemmings:
Memory, Landscape and Time: Contemporary Written and Woven Narratives


RECEPTION
School of Art Gallery


Dinner
*bookings required
6.00



7.30
Exhibitions Reception
MC – Gordon Bull
Speakers: Eve Thwaites, Mrs Kommaly Chanthavong, Wendy TeakeL, Kay Lawrence
Asian Mekong Delta Kitchen, Corner Alinga Street and Marcus Clarke

SATURDAY 3 MAY

9.00

Welcome – Valerie Kirk
CHAIR:
Anne Marie Power
9.10 – 10.00
Aino Kajaniemi - Subjects from the innermost heart

10.00-10.30
Brenda Goggs - Tapestry weaving, a slow, self-absorbed, personal, space
TEA
10.30-11
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CHAIR:
Marie Cook

11.00-11.20
Andrzej Banachowicz - “Tapestries and objects – my creation or Mystery of time and man”

11.20-11.40
Susan Mowatt - An Overview of Contemporary Scottish Tapestry.


11.40-12.00
Yasuko Fujino - Own work
LUNCH
12-1.00
-------Textiles Workshop
CHAIR:

1.00 – 1.20
Jane Freear –Wyld - Digital technologies, the designthe design process and tapestry weaving: from the
ordinary to the extra-ordinary


1.20 – 1.40
Kirsty Darlston – The Loom as a Stage for Performing Community History


1.40 – 2.00
Robyn Mountcastle - Colour and Symbol:Woven Tapestry in Ceremonial Settings

2.00 – 2.20
Anton Veenstra - Tapestry: Ornamented Narrative
TEA
2.30 – 3.00
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CHAIR:
Rosemary Crossthwaite
3.00 – 4.00
Mr Keomontree Daungbupha
Mrs Vandara Amphayphone
Carol Cassidy - Lao Tapestry/Textiles


4.00 – 4.30
Jane Kidd - To Practice in the Middle: A Craft / Art Dialogue


4.30-5.00
Final remarks –Mardi Nowak and panel

University House
Symposium Dinner
*bookings required
7.00
Speakers: Archie Brennan
Cresside Collette
Susan Mowatt
Linda Wallace

The Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra