KATIE WEST ‘Present Tending’ at ANCA Gallery

March 17, 2024

Katie West is part of the group show ‘Present Tending’ at the Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Gallery in Canberra from 8.03. – 26.03.23. The six exhibited artists work with the materiality and histories of cloth and plant colour, revealing unaccounted for care-work and representing textile as a tool of care, a site of resistance or intermediary between the inevitable tensions and challenges of working from home.

The range of approaches explored by the artists is “a testament to the creative ways artists managed isolation, home-schooling and ongoing employment and financial pressures. The use of natural fibres, dyed with locally sourced plant colour, assists in connecting the artists, and their subsequent audiences, to place, labour and care.”

Katie is a Yindjibarndi woman and the winner of the 2017 DMG/NAS Award with an interdisciplinary practice that explores the renewal of human connections with and within the natural environment.

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Image caption: Katie West, ‘muhlu garrwarn / cool time hot time’, 2017, bush-dyed silk