TEx@ATA is ATA’s online gallery showcasing curated exhibitions of contemporary tapestry artists from around the world. Curator’s Information
Newest Exhibition
Belinda Ramson
Curated by Meredith Hinchliffe
“In 1967 Ramson studied as a special student for a year in the Tapestry Department, Edinburgh College of Art… In 1973, Ramson returned to Edinburgh to work as a weaver at the Dovecot Tapestry Studio, learning the precise methods which she described as “solidly based in a traditional discipline.” Ramson was committed to Archie Brennan’s way of thinking in weaving, which she considered to be “constantly innovative” and about “using the medium of tapestry to elucidate a conceptually difficult problem.”
– Meredith Hinchliffe, Curator
“Through her work as artist, teacher and consultant to the ATW [Australian Tapestry Workshop], Belinda Ramson played a crucial role in shaping the vibrant and distinctive woven tapestry movement that emerged so surprisingly and with such authority in Australia in the 1970s. Her influence is threaded through the development of contemporary tapestry in Australia: an art form now renowned internationally for its transformative and expressive use of an ancient medium.”
-Kay Lawrence, Head of the South Australian School of Art
Belinda Ramson, “Tanja 1,” 1982, Woven tapestry, wool, cotton, 86 x 60 cm. Collection of Ararat Regional Art Gallery. Purchased 1982 with the assistance of the Crafts Board of the Australia Council and the Ararat Gallery Social Committee.
TEx@ATA Exhibitions
2017 Elements: earth, air, fire, water
2016 ARTAPESTRY4
2016 Marcel Marois: The Weave of History
2015 Threads of Life
2015 From Back to Front
2015 Over the Sea, Under the Sky: Contemporary Danish Tapestry
2014 Dorothy Clews: All is in Flux
2014 In the Heart of Europe: Hungarian Tapestry Art
2013 Down South: Tapestry in Australia
2013 The Rhythms of Julia Mitchell’s Tapestries
2013 The Power of Slow
2012 Erin Riley – Public/Private Moments
2012 Dancing Color – Audrey Moore’s Tapestries
2012 A Penelopean Space – the artwork of Linda Wallace
2011 Maiz
2011 Transformed Traditions in Ikat II: Contemporary interpretations of a traditional technique
2010 Archie Brennan
2010 Inyul Heo
2009 Jean Pierre Larochette & Yael Lurie: A study in national treasures
2009 Land
2008 Inspiration & Creativity
2007 Christine Laffer: Lines of Inquiry
2007 Barbara Heller
2007 Tapestry on the Edge
2006 Fractured Landscapes: Tapestries and Paper Weavings by Suzanne Pretty
2006 Between Two Worlds: Valerie Kirk and Sara Lindsay
2005 FindingHome @ tapestry.ca/au
