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Sue's work "By design-made in Australia" has been selected for the na...
Sue's work "By design-made in Australia" has been selected for the national textile survey exhibition, the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial which opens in September at the Tamworth Gallery and tours Australia for two years. She has also been selected to exhibit in the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz '04 in Poland, opening May 24 -Oct 31 (the works represent all facets of the fibre/textile practice, not exclusively tapestry.)
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From Lake Mungo Revisited - Detail of Dunes
From Lake Mungo Revisited - Detail of Dunes
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Sue Blanchfield
Lecturer
Diploma in Art Education, The National Art School,
Master of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong
Currently on leave.
Sue Blanchfield lectures in visual arts and Aboriginal arts and society. After four years of art training Sue lived and travelled extensively in south east Asia and brings to her professional practice the knowledge of traditional textiles from this area.
Her expertise in her arts practice is in surface design on textiles and in this capacity she has been instrumental in co-ordinating and conducting workshops in the indigenous communities of Yirrkala and Ngukurr in the Northern Territory.
In her own practice she has exhibited widely investigating and comparing indigenous and colonial occupation of and responses to land in Australia. In 1995 she curated "Salt Water, Fresh Water", prints on paper and cloth from Yirrkala; in 1998, "Walka Ernabellala Palyantja", designs from Ernabella.
She is currently curating two exhibitions; "Tracking Cloth", contemporary Australian textiles due to open at Wollongong City Gallery and travelling to Indonesia, and Ngukurr Prints to open at the FCA Gallery in 2002.
Email: sue_blanchfield@uow.edu.au
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