This course explores our universal familiarity with textiles by engaging diverse approaches to working with cloth, fiber and thread within contemporary art practice. With a focus on conceptual development and experimentation with traditional and non-traditional materials and processes, you are asked to consider the multifaceted presence of textiles within the everyday and to develop an innovative approach to art making that integrates research, experimentation and concepts that engage your specific areas of interest.

As part of the course you will be exposed to a range of traditional and non-traditional textile materials and techniques. You will engage in workshops that explore hand and machine stitching, bonded textiles, experimental and improvisational mark-making techniques, as well as the use of found and reclaimed objects and materials.

Assessment in this course includes research tasks, workshop experimentation and realising projects that engage with the concepts developed from this activity. Assessment will also include a studio journal to document the exploration of your ideas and reflections on research, technical and conceptual developments and the evaluation of your artworks.

SDES2402 Textiles, Art and the Everyday and SDES2403 Textiles, Time and Memory are complementary 2nd year courses which together form the two x 2000 level core studies in the Textiles studio stream within the BFA program. These can also be taken as part of BMA. Together these courses prepare students for more advanced studies in the 3000 level courses in the Textiles stream. This course may also be taken as an elective where places are available.