Symbol and Narrative: Contemporary Australian Textiles
Presented for the Asialink program: Bright Sparks
CURATOR: Margaret Ainscow
ARTISTS: Moira Doropoulos, Pamela Gaunt, Holly Story, Rose Marie Szulc
Symbol and Narrative, which included the work of four textile artists commenting on the modern world from Perth and Melbourne, was a third iteration of the Bright Sparks program, and focused on the smaller centres of South Asia as well as the main cities of Bombay and New Delhi. The interest in textiles is apparent from the report of artist Pamela Gaunt in India: ‘I gave three talks in Delhi and three in Jaipur. The venues were great. The exhibition was very well received; people were very excited…. I was on radio in Delhi and TV in Jaipur and the exhibition had a lot of newspaper coverage.’
This exhibition toured to Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Kathmandu, New Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Bombay (1995).