Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in the social classifications of materials, particularly as they relate to class and status. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic qualities of her chosen materials and complicate assumptions about their relative high or low value. The tar…

Dense embroidery, delicate chainmail, and found truck curtains come together in Teelah George’s Fragile Armour in a way that both reinforces and extends the material interests that drive her practice. Embroidery is an established and important part of George’s output, represented in Fragile Armour with Wall piece, a large textile composed of thousands of hand…

River’s Flow (In Every Future) is an embroidered textile installation by Jazz Money, a Wiradjuri artist and poet based on Gadigal Country, Sydney. Money’s multi-disciplinary practice extends across poetry, installation, film, publishing, performance and visual art. Her work is grounded in the interwoven relationship between poetics, body and place. River’s Flow (In Every Future) invokes…