Over the past 50 years, ATW has worked with many of Australia’s most significant artists to translate their practices into tapestry. This exhibition exclusively features women artists, celebrating their contributions to Australian art.

Threaded Narratives examines how their practices, spanning modernist figuration and abstraction to First Nations narrative painting, conceptual installation, and contemporary drawing, have been reinterpreted in tapestry. Displayed alongside developmental samples, these works reveal tapestry as a site of experimentation, where ideas are reimagined through material, scale, and technique, and celebrate ATW’s contribution to Australian art history.

Artists

Daisy Andrews, Atong Atem, Irene Barberis, Karen Black, Anmanari Brown, Maree Clarke & Mitch Mahoney, Marie Cook, Polly Courtin, Lee Darroch, Lesley Dumbrell, Merrill Dumbrell, Janenne Eaton, Merrin Eirth, Emily Ferretti, Emily Floyd, Rae Ganim, Naomi Hobson, Kaiadilt Artists from Bentinck Island, Jenny Kee, Janet Laurence, Eugenia Lim, Sara Lindsay, Helen Maudsley, Pantjiti Mary McLean, Mirka Mora, Nanyuma Napangati, Mandy Nicholson, Faye Plamka, Ema Shin, Sally Smart, Margaret Stone, TextaQueen, Judy Watson, Nyankulya Watson, Sheena Wilfred and Ruby Williamson.

Exhibition Dates

12 February – 18 April 2026

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