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Masters of Australian craft
Liz Williamson: Living Treasure 2008
30 November 2008
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Curiculum vitae
- Training and education
- Selected solo exhibitions
- Selected group exhibitions
- Selected public collections
- Selected awards and honours
- Selected bibliography
| 2006 | Master of Fine Art, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Sydney |
| 1983 | Bachelor of Art - Textile Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
| 1980 | Handloom Weaving Course, Melbourne College of Textiles, Melbourne |
| 1970 | Bachelor of Economics and Commerce, Melbourne University, Melbourne |
| 2008 | Liz Williamson: Textiles, Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 2006 | Visible Darning, Project Space, Object Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2006 | A Visible Thread, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1999 | Surface, Crawford Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 1998 | Wraps, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australia |
| 1995 | Undulations, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australia |
| 1994 | New Colour, Craftspace, Sydney, Australia |
| 1993 | Pieces of Colour, Jam Factory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, Australia |
| 1992 | Wraps and Scarves, Brown Paper Gallery, Lawson, Australia |
| 2008 | From Lausanne to Beijing, 5th International Fiberart Exhibition, Fiber Art Institute, Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| 2007 | Smart works, design and the handmade, Curator Dr Grace Cochrane, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| 2006 | Exploring Surface and Texture, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan |
| 2006 | In the world, 17th Tamworth Fibre Textiles Biennial, Curator Vivonne Thwaites, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 2006 | About Jacquard, Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Canada |
| 2006 | Warna-Warni Curator Edric Ong, Galeri Petronas, Sarawak, Malaysia |
| 2006 | Depth of Field, Curator Marlene Little, Midlands Arts Centre Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, touring exhibition |
| 2005 | Inspired - design across time, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 | a matter of time : 16th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, Curator Suzie Attiwill, Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, Australia, touring exhibition |
| 2002 | Material Culture - aspects of contemporary Australian Craft and Design, curated by Robert Bell, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia |
| 2002 | Tracking Cloth curated by Sue Blanchfield, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, Australia, national and international touring exhibition |
| 2002 | Extreme Wearables, Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| 2002 | Contemporary Textile Art OBG International Biennial, Curators Janet Ledsham and Michael Brennand-Wood, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
| 2000 | e-textiles, ventures - jacquard weaving, Curator Louise Lemieux Berube, Le Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montreal, Canada, national and international touring exhibition |
| 1999 | Origins and New Perspectives - Contemporary Australian Textiles, Curator Glenda King, exhibited in Lodz, Poland in 1998 and at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
Selected public collections
- Victorian State Craft Collection, Melbourne, Australia
- Hoechst Australia Textile Collection, Melbourne, Australia
- Alice Craft Acquisition Collection, Craft Council NT, Alice Springs, Australia
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
- Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Darwin, Australia
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
- Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, Australia
- Tamworth Regional Gallery, Tamworth, Australia
Selected awards and honours
- Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft
- Norwellan Upholstery Designer Award.
- Hoechst National Textile Award.
Selected bibliography
- Cochrane, Grace, Liz Williamson: Textiles, Object Gallery, Sydney, 2008
- Cochrane, Grace (ed), Liz Williamson, Smart Works: Design and the Handmade, Powerhouse Museum Publishing, Sydney, 2007
- Koumis, Matthew (ed), Art Textiles of the World: Australia, Volume 2, Telos Publications, UK, 2007
- Opportunities in Textiles, Object Magazine 50, 2006
- Wada, Yoshika, Ragged Beauty - Repair and Reuse, Past and Present, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, USA, 2004
- Parkes, Brian, Sydney Style, Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design, Sydney, 2004
- Bond, Clare, Unwrapped, Bendigo Art Gallery, NSW, 2003
- Bond, Clare, Reverberations: pulsations in Liz Williamson's woven textiles, Fiberarts Magazine, June 2000
- Layne, Barbara, Extrapolations: Discussion on Contemporary Jacquard Weaving, 'e-textiles' Centre for Contemporary Textiles, Montreal, Canada, 2000
- Murray, Kevin, Water Medicine, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, 1999
- West, Margaret, The Feminine: Five Patterns, Object Magazine 4/1998
- Rowley, Sue, Crossing Borders, University of Wollongong, NSW, 1997
- Brennan, Anne, Worn and Worn: Textiles of Liz Williamson, Crafts Arts International, No 39, 1997
- Ioannou, Norris, Masters of their Craft: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contemporary Arts, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1997
- Speck, Catherine, Gilding the Landscape, Object Magazine 1/1994
- Cochrane, Grace (ed), Liz Williamson and Kelly Thompson - Dialogue: Exploring
- Cochrane, Grace, The Crafts Movement in Australia, New South Wales University Press, Sydney, 1992
