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It is with great pleasure we announce award winner for the 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition ‘ People’s Choice A...
05/05/2026

It is with great pleasure we announce award winner for the 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition ‘ People’s Choice Award’.

Congratulations to Robyn Lees-West for her work titled ’Seized Goods’.

Congratulations Robyn, you are a worthy recipient for your artwork that has evoked much emotion and meaningful discussion throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Artist Statement: Siezed Goods is a series of three juvenile sulphur crested cockatoos , hand stitched from antique doilies & reclaimed fabric. The birds are deceased , two are stuffed into old water bottles while the third has been removed. One of the birds eyes peers through the opening of the bottle.
This artwork was inspired by real photos of smuggled birds siezed by customs.
These beautiful creatures are no more than stuff to the smugglers . Reduced to their monetary
value. Crammed into an old bottle and hidden in luggage. No care or respect for these intelligent ,
funny birds. The cheap , man made plastic bottle hiding the intricate beauty of the bird and sadly becoming their coffin. This is a statement about human greed.


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Dear Artists, friends and followersThe 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is draw...
03/05/2026

Dear Artists, friends and followers

The 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is drawing to a close today, Sunday 3rd May.

The last day to visit this ‘must see’ exhibition before it closes at 4.00pm.

Exhibition Details

Open: LAST DAY - Sunday 3rd May

Venue: Esmond Gallery, Level 1, The Warehouse Clunes

Address: Collins Place, 36 Fraser Street, Clunes VIC 3370

Hours:
Sunday - 10.00am - 4.00pm

How to get there:
Come for the drive or alternatively VLine services are free until the end of April. For more information visit https://www.vline.com.au/getattachment/900086b2-68b6-499b-9b94-771082bb814a/Maryborough-Melbourne-(via-Ballarat-and-Castle-(1)

Featured Artist - Dawn Duncan-Smith Artwork Title - The Devil Wears Fast FashionArtist Statement:Can Landfills Cover Ou...
03/05/2026

Featured Artist - Dawn Duncan-Smith

Artwork Title - The Devil Wears Fast Fashion

Artist Statement:
Can Landfills Cover Our Earth? considers the growing impact of waste on our environment. The
idea that landfills could dominate our landscapes is not as distant as it may seem if consumption
continues unchecked. Fast fashion is a major contributor to this problem, driven by rapid
production and disposable trends. Clothing is often worn only a handful of times before being
discarded, adding to the increasing volume of textile waste sent to landfill.
This work invites viewers to imagine a future where natural landscapes are replaced by the
structures of relentless consumerism. Within this context, the sunflower becomes a symbol of resilience and hope. Turning toward the sun, it represents the possibility of renewal and growth,
reminding us that even in difficult circumstances we can choose a more sustainable path.


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Featured Artist - Michelle Trewin Artwork Title - Is it a Pile or a Hill? Artist Statement- Is this a picture of a land...
03/05/2026

Featured Artist - Michelle Trewin

Artwork Title - Is it a Pile or a Hill?

Artist Statement- Is this a picture of a landscape? The serenity of a quaint hill covered with grasses and scrubs, scattered with small flowers nestled amount stones and rocks. A calm and content scene.
Or is this a pile of lint held together with thread? Positioned to depict the consumerism of the
textile industry. High consumption and waste driven by the ever-changing fashion trends. Is this a
representation of the significant amount of textile waste that ends up in landfills due to planned
obsolescence, disposable fashion culture and the destruction of unsold clothes?

I ask you to ponder the question of what we wear, how we wear it and what we do with it in the end. How are our clothing choices effect our environment? How does it affect our water, air and soil? How does it affect our quaint hill?


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Featured Artist - Kerith HolmesArtwork Title - White CollarArtist Statement - A recycled shirt has been pulled apart, cy...
03/05/2026

Featured Artist - Kerith Holmes

Artwork Title - White Collar

Artist Statement - A recycled shirt has been pulled apart, cyanotyped, embroidered, and then reconstructed.
Facts, slogans and images reflecting the history of the growth of the garment and fashion industry adorn its surface; from the early days of garment-making in the home, to the growth of local tailor and dressmaking businesses; through the peril of candlelit attic sweatshops during the industrial revolution to the unsafe factories of ‘fast’ fashion that produce approximately 100 billion new clothing items each year, up to 40% of which are never sold. Where’s the profit in that?

The white shirt is touted as a ‘timeless classic’, but in a world with such short fashion cycles , is it?
To buy, with purpose, a well-made, long-wearing and sustainable garment requires a budget far
beyond most of us.
From a distance you can’t see my work, reflecting the hidden history of any garment we purchase.


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Featured Artist - Di EllisArtwork Title - FlockPurpose , Profit and Peril intersect this work through the quiet resilien...
02/05/2026

Featured Artist - Di Ellis

Artwork Title - Flock

Purpose , Profit and Peril intersect this work through the quiet resilience of discarded objects. This hand embroidered Victorian Complexion Screen, once a symbol of status, privacy and refinement, has lost its original function and market value, becoming an overlooked remnant of domestic ritual.
By stitching on its shield, I reclaim its purpose, not by restoring its utility, but by reanimating its
presence. The embroidery becomes a dialogue between past and present, inviting viewers to
reflect how objects shift from prize possessions to forgotten debris.
Profit threads through the work as a question: who decides what is worth preserving, collecting or
discarding? The peril lies in our cultural tendency to erase histories that no longer serve
contemporary desires. Through this intervention, I aim to elevate the worthless, revealing the
narratives embedded in material remnants and challenging the assumptions that define value.


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Dear Artists, friends and followersThe 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is in i...
02/05/2026

Dear Artists, friends and followers

The 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is in its final days, the last weekend to visit this ‘must see’ exhibition before it closes this coming Sunday at 4.00pm.

Pencil a visit in your diary, invite a friend and come for a drive to see this diverse and thought provoking collection of artworks, from 39 Victorian and interstate artists while you can.

Exhibition Details

Open: Each day this weekend, closing 4.00pm Sunday 3rd May

Venue: Esmond Gallery, Level 1, The Warehouse Clunes

Address: Collins Place, 36 Fraser Street, Clunes VIC 3370

Hours:

Saturday 2nd May, 10.00am - 2.00pm (CLOSING EARLY)

Sunday FINAL DAY 3rd May - 10.00am - 4.00pm

How to get there:
Come for the drive or alternatively VLine services are free until the end of April. For more information visit https://www.vline.com.au/getattachment/900086b2-68b6-499b-9b94-771082bb814a/Maryborough-Melbourne-(via-Ballarat-and-Castle-(1)

Dear Artists, friends and followersThe 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is in i...
01/05/2026

Dear Artists, friends and followers

The 2026 Biennial Textile Palette Exhibition STUFF: Purpose, profit and peril is in its final days, the last weekend to visit this ‘must see’ exhibition before it closes this coming Sunday at 4.00pm.

Pencil a visit in your diary, invite a friend and come for a drive to see this diverse and thought provoking collection of artworks, from 39 Victorian and interstate artists while you can.

Exhibition Details

Open: Each day this weekend, closing 4.00pm Sunday 3rd May

Venue: Esmond Gallery, Level 1, The Warehouse Clunes

Address: Collins Place, 36 Fraser Street, Clunes VIC 3370

Hours:

Friday 1st May - 10.00am - 4.00pm

Saturday 2nd May, 10.00am - 2.00pm (CLOSING EARLY)

Sunday FINAL DAY 3rd May - 10.00am - 4.00pm

How to get there:
Come for the drive or alternatively VLine services are free until the end of April. For more information visit https://www.vline.com.au/getattachment/900086b2-68b6-499b-9b94-771082bb814a/Maryborough-Melbourne-(via-Ballarat-and-Castle-(1)

Featured Artist - Jennifer AudsleyArtwork Title - Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) SuitArtist Statement - Biosafety Level 4 (BSL...
01/05/2026

Featured Artist - Jennifer Audsley

Artwork Title - Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) Suit

Artist Statement -
Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) Suit is a sculptural work that combines traditional crochet methods with
the unconventional medium of clean waste laboratory plastic. Laboratory research generates
mountains of waste. The work is bound in the context of a research institute in Melbourne, which
houses a BSL-4 high-containment facility for research on highly infectious, fatal human diseases. It
is here that some researchers, wearing the distinctive positive-pressure suits, confront the highest risk human pathogens.

The plastic used to crochet her sculptural suit is clean packaging waste from consumables like pipette tips and tissue culture flasks; laboratory objects used to ensure sterility.

I’m fascinated by this layered idea of protection: the packaging, necessary to prevent
contamination but ultimately waste, is remade into a symbolic BSL4 suit, itself a representation of
the ultimate personal protection barrier. The suit itself becomes an archive by preserving clean
laboratory waste, assembled into a new form.


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For visitors travelling to visit the in Clunes over the weekend, there is another textile exhibition open for you to...
30/04/2026

For visitors travelling to visit the in Clunes over the weekend, there is another textile exhibition open for you to see whilst you are here.

‘Fabrications’ by our lead curator Mel Drummond is on display .planetstudio.

Open today Friday + Saturday 11am - 3pm at Rogue Planet Studio 1A Service Street Clunes.

Make a day of it, invite a friend and come for a road trip as these two ‘must visit’ exhibitions are closing this weekend.



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The Esmond Gallery, The Warehouse Clunes
Clunes, VIC
3370

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Monday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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