Entry Process :
There is a two-step entry process.
Step 1: On-line.
All entrants must complete the digital online form and upload a high-resolution digital image or images of their entry for administration purposes.
Please be aware that this image will be used for the finalist catalogue if selected, so should present the work in its best light. Please note landscape images work best for our format
Step 2: Hard copy
All entrants must create hard copies of their entry form and images and forward these to Arts Council Nelson by the closing date on the 19th April. Hard copies of work images will be utilised for the selection process; therefore, it is important that artists names are on the reverse of the image and work is shown in its best light and orientation indicated.
Selection Process:
There is also a two-step selection process
Step 1: Entries will be judged on merit by the three pre-selection judges. Artist names will not be visible to the pre-selection judges. The selected entries will be advised by the 24th April 2024 when artists will be invited to send the work to us.
Step 2: Selected works are delivered to the venue for final judging by the 8th May. Shortlisted artists shall be advised on inclusion of their work in the finalist showcase by 9th May 2024.
Finalist award judging will be by the judging panel. All decisions will be final and dialogue will not be entered into.
Selected works:
A list of artists and the titles of their selected works will be posted on the site (prior to opening).
Finalists:
The awards will be presented at the opening event. All entrants are welcome to attend and we especially encourage all finalists to be present.
Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Textile Award Exhibition will be on display at Refinery ArtSpace Nelson for four weeks.
17th May - 15 June 2024
There is a two-step entry process.
Step 1: On-line.
All entrants must complete the digital online form and upload a high-resolution digital image or images of their entry for administration purposes.
Please be aware that this image will be used for the finalist catalogue if selected, so should present the work in its best light. Please note landscape images work best for our format
Step 2: Hard copy
All entrants must create hard copies of their entry form and images and forward these to Arts Council Nelson by the closing date on the 19th April. Hard copies of work images will be utilised for the selection process; therefore, it is important that artists names are on the reverse of the image and work is shown in its best light and orientation indicated.
Selection Process:
There is also a two-step selection process
Step 1: Entries will be judged on merit by the three pre-selection judges. Artist names will not be visible to the pre-selection judges. The selected entries will be advised by the 24th April 2024 when artists will be invited to send the work to us.
Step 2: Selected works are delivered to the venue for final judging by the 8th May. Shortlisted artists shall be advised on inclusion of their work in the finalist showcase by 9th May 2024.
Finalist award judging will be by the judging panel. All decisions will be final and dialogue will not be entered into.
Selected works:
A list of artists and the titles of their selected works will be posted on the site (prior to opening).
Finalists:
The awards will be presented at the opening event. All entrants are welcome to attend and we especially encourage all finalists to be present.
Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Textile Award Exhibition will be on display at Refinery ArtSpace Nelson for four weeks.
17th May - 15 June 2024
15 Year Celebration Programme |
Arts Council Nelson are very proud to have presented Changing Threads Contemporary Fibre Textile Art Award along with its founder, our fabulous Creative Director Ronnie Martin, for the last 15 years. We wish to thank the selectors, judges and sponsors past and present along with the talented textile and Fibre artists throughout Aotearoa that continue to raise the calibre of the event year upon year. The event has now become one of the most prestigious of its type in NZ, with increasing visitor numbers each year. As we approach this milestone it is a good time to reflect on our journey so far. Thus we have put together a programme that celebrates the traditions from which our talented and innovative artists draw upon when submitting their work, which is often conceptual, experimental or surprising. That pushes the limits of the materiality of the medium.
Introducing our Judges for 2024
Barbara Speedy
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Based in Marlborough, Barbara Speedy is a gallerist, writer and former journalist/editor, running The Diversion Gallery for more than 24 years. Born in Napier, she previously worked in newspapers and for national business and lifestyle magazines, including a series on artists in their own homes and studios. This included a feature on early fibre artist Peg Moorhouse who with Barbara’s aunt was a founder of the Professional Weavers Network.
In 1999 Barbara established The Diversion Gallery, exhibiting prominent contemporary New Zealand artists. The gallery on the Picton waterfront has built a national reputation for its exhibitions of paintings, sculpture and printmaking by prominent artists, alongside emerging artists with a distinctive voice. Barbara has been closely involved with books on New Zealand artists, as Editor of the major 300-page art monograph Graham Bennett, Around Every Circle, (Ron Sang) in 2020; also working on JS Parker – Plain Song by Damian Skinner, and as a key contributor to Don Binney – Flight Path by Gregory O’Brien (Auckland University Press, October 2023), |
Bailee is a queer, disabled artist born in Whanganui, Aotearoa, 1989 . She graduated from the University of New South Wales – Art and Design in 2018 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours. She is a founding member of the performance collective Show Us Your Teeth and served on the committee of the Sydney based ARI AIRspace Projects. In 2018 she co-curated In Motion; a festival and three-week exhibition that incorporated video, kinetic sculpture, performance, and sound based work. Her work Restful Heart was selected as the Supreme Award Winner in Changing Threads Contemporary Textile and Fibre Art Awards, 2021. Bailee works with video, electronics, textiles and light to create immersive installation and performance work. Bailee currently lives and works in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand), where she practices from her home studio. |
Bailee Lobb
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Our Selectors...
Jo Kinross
Jo Kinross is a contemporary fibre artist from Melbourne who is currently living and working in Nelson NZ.
Contemporary natural dyeing is a focal point of her work. In 2014 she started to work almost exclusively with organic indigo on natural fibres. Working with natural dyes, botanical inks and graphite on paper has since become the main vehicle for Jo’s creative expression. She is also committed to arts education and community development. Jo has been involved with Changing Threads since 2010, first as an exhibitor and from 2013 to the present as a Selector. |
Lianne Edwards
Lianne Edwards’ art practice focusses on exploring our relationship with the natural world.
Environmental concerns have been foremost in her work, with a recent focus on the key issues facing the marine environment. Drawing on her background in ecology and conservation she melds art and science to create intricate works from an eclectic collection of materials including postage stamps, fibre and textiles, waste products and science data. Her work is held in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wallace Arts Trust and other private and public collections. |
Ronnie Martin
Ronnie Martin is an award-winning textile and mixed media artist that has exhibited widely in national and international exhibitions. She has received a number of awards for mixed media, creative textiles and painting.
A guest judge for many Quilting, Embroidery and Creative Fibre exhibitions Ronnie has been the Creative Director for Changing Thread Awards show for Contemporary Fibres and textiles since its inception |