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Tapestry differs from other fine-art disciplines in that it offers unique opportunities for exploring structures and materials, as well as ideas and images. At Monash, it is taught as an expressive medium in its own right, capable of communicating an individual viewpoint. The Tapestry Studio acknowledges the discipline's rich and varied tradition, while encouraging innovation within the context of contemporary culture - especially the post-modern interest in extending boundaries and working with hybrid forms.
Monash is the only art school in Australia to offer tapestry as a major studio within a fine-art degree course. In the process of using colour, form, and composition to express individual ideas and images, students learn and develop technical skills in weaving and textiles. Second- and third-year students taking tapestry as a major can experiment more freely with materials, structures, and images under the guidance of professional tapestry artists and weavers.
The Tapestry Studio runs its own drawing program - additional to the compulsory first-year Drawing Studio subject taken by all Art and Design students - through which students investigate drawing as a visual research tool within the specialised context of tapestry.
Studio Coordinator
Kate Derum
t:+61 3 9903 2254
f:+61 3 9903 2759
e:kate.derum@artdes.monash.edu.au
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