Finalists 2024.
Arts Council Nelson would like to congratulate this years finalists. The final showcase will feature forty nine works from forty two artists and we are very much looking forward to presenting such a strong show.
Sarah Arnold
Janet Bathgate Helen Beaven Esther Bunning Kara Burrowes Stephanie Campbell David Carson Makyla Curtis Samara Davis Patricia Fung Min-Young Her Sue Heydon Rowan Giselle Holt Maggy J Kim Lawrence Judith Lofley Lisa Matthys Michelle Mayn Abby McCall Pam McKinlay Adele McNutt |
Marina McPherson
Frankie Meaden Alysn Clare Midgelow-Marsden Birgit Moffatt Giles Panting Catherine Parkinson Susie Pascoe George Peter Rachel Ratten Sarah Read Sarah Ritchie Christopher Sandoval Kate Sellar Deb Shepherd Yvette Slabbert Tracey Sullivan Torrington Sian Briar van Dort Robyn Walton Lettecia Williams Fleur Woods |
Changing Threads wouldn't of course happen without the help of our generous sponsors...
We welcome two new partners this year Harcourts Nelson Tasman and NZ Textile Experiences
Harcourts Nelson Tasman sponsoring an Award of Excellence $1000.
NZ Textile Experiences who along with Dame Suzie Moncrieff who has been with us since the Awards inception are together sponsoring an Award of Excellence $1000.
Bernina NZ who's ongoing support has helped us to this milestone celebration rewardeding artists that blaze the trail with exceptional and innovative practice with their prize for works produced with a sewing machine. $2000
We gratefully acknowledge Nelson City Council and Nelson Tasman for their continued investment over the years.
Arts Council Nelson are proud to award the Supreme Award Winner a cash prize of $4000.
Benjamin Black Goldsmiths returns this year sponsoring the People's Choice Award with a fabulous creation for the winning artist
You are very warmly invited to the Gala Opening and Awards presentation on Friday 17th May 5.30pm
Thank you to all of the artists that submitted work this year. It was a particularly strong year with 180 entries received. Our selectors had a tough time and deliberations were robust and lengthy. We hope that even if you were unsuccessful this year that we will continue to see such quality work in the future and that you can come along to the show.
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
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 |