Author(s): Clare Press, Shannon Brett

Design

Textile design today is a vibrant boundary-blurring creative field. By nature, it cross-pollinates. Moving through disciplines - graphic, furniture and product design, fashion and the visual arts - it manifests as surface patterning, material experimentation and transfiguration, storytelling and conceptual ideas. From highly original First Nations artists to dynamic interdisciplinary collaborations, New Exuberance celebrates over 30 diverse and eclectic textile-based practices in contemporary art, design and fashion in Australia now. Textile design is a vibrant creative field, moving through disciplines - graphic, furniture and product design, fashion and visual arts - manifesting as surface patterning, material experimentation and transfiguration, storytelling and conceptual ideas. New Exuberance celebrates textile design. Textile design today is a vibrant boundary-blurring creative field. By nature, it cross-pollinates. Moving through disciplines - graphic, furniture and product design, fashion and the visual arts - it manifests as surface patterning, material experimentation and transfiguration, storytelling and conceptual ideas. From highly original First Nations artists to dynamic interdisciplinary collaborations, New Exuberance celebrates over 30 diverse and eclectic textile-based practices in contemporary art, design and fashion in Australia now.