Collaborations

Collaboration is at the heart of our values, bringing together artists, weavers and benefactors through our network to create lasting narratives through tapestry.

 
 

The Tapestry Foundation Australia collaborates with other patrons to have tapestries woven for specific sites. Mostly these commissions are initiated by the Tapestry Foundation Australia and sponsors are approached to fund the production of the tapestry.

 

The Premiers Suite: The Declaration of the Rights of the Child

The Tapestry Foundation of Australia is currently in partnership with the State Government of Victoria to produce three major tapestries to place throughout new state hospitals in the State. The first in The Premiers Suite collaboration, The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is on display in the Foyer of the recently completed Joan Kirner Women’s and Children’s Hospital located in Sunshine, Melbourne.

This powerful, three-panel tapestry, has been produced in collaboration with artist Emily Floyd.

 
Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2018. Image use

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2018. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Sue Batten, Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce and Jennifer Sharpe. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool and cotton, 2.0 x 1.3 m each (three panels). Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch.

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image use

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Sue Batten, Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce and Jennifer Sharpe. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool and cotton, 2.0 x 1.3 m each (three panels). Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch.

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image use

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Sue Batten, Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce and Jennifer Sharpe. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool and cotton, 2.0 x 1.3 m each (three panels). Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch.

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image use

Patrons: Tapestry Foundation of Australia, the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. Location: Joan Kirner Womens and Childrens Hospital. Artist: Emily Floyd. Title: Declaration of the Rights of the Child 2019. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Sue Batten, Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce and Jennifer Sharpe. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool and cotton, 2.0 x 1.3 m each (three panels). Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch.

Morning Star

The commissioning of Morning Star marked the April 2018 opening of the Sir John Monash Centre in the grounds of the Villers-Brettoneux Military Cemetery in France, coinciding with the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War.

The photographs on this tapestry depict Australian soldiers in transit and are set against the timelessness of the clearing mist of the Australian bush.

 
Patrons: The Tapestry Foundation of Australia, Australian Hotels Association, ANZAC Centenary Arts & Culture Fund, Marjorie M. Kingston Charitable Trust, Calvert-Jones Family, Anne & Mark Robertson OAM, Baillieu Myer AC & Sarah Myer, Yulgilbar Founda

Patrons: The Tapestry Foundation of Australia, Australian Hotels Association, ANZAC Centenary Arts & Culture Fund, Marjorie M. Kingston Charitable Trust, Calvert-Jones Family, Anne & Mark Robertson OAM, Baillieu Myer AC & Sarah Myer, Yulgilbar Foundation, Chasam Foundation & the Myer Foundation. Location: Sir John Monash Centre, Villers-Bretonneux, France.

Artist: Lyndell Brown & Charles Green. Title: Morning Star 2017. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Leonie Bessant, Pierre Bureau, Chris Cochius, David Cochrane, Pamela Joyce, Jennifer Sharpe and Cheryl Thornton. Australian Tapestry Wor

Artist: Lyndell Brown & Charles Green. Title: Morning Star 2017. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Leonie Bessant, Pierre Bureau, Chris Cochius, David Cochrane, Pamela Joyce, Jennifer Sharpe and Cheryl Thornton. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool & cotton, 2.5 x 5.04 m. Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch.

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Mappa Mundi

This tapestry was inspired by the now lost Ebstorf Mappa Mundi, a medieval European map of the known world. Gulam Sheik’s version, woven as a tapestry, takes the same broad idea and depicts imagery derived from both the Eastern and Western world. In particular, it populates the world with religious imagery taken from Christian, Islamic, Hindu and mystic traditions that contrast with the Christian symbolism of the original.

Commissioned for the Asialink Building at the University of Melbourne, its symbolism is a reminder of the commonality and diversity of mankind in the Eastern and Western part of the globe.

 
Patrons: Neilma Gantner and Carrillo Gantner. Location: Asialink Building, University of Melbourne. Artist: Gulam Sheik. Title: Mappa Mundi 2004. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Cheryl Thornton, Caroline Tully, Rachel Hine and Amy Co

Patrons: Neilma Gantner and Carrillo Gantner. Location: Asialink Building, University of Melbourne. Artist: Gulam Sheik. Title: Mappa Mundi 2004. Image used with courtesy of the artist. Weavers: Cheryl Thornton, Caroline Tully, Rachel Hine and Amy Cornall. Australian Tapestry Workshop, wool and cotton, 3.025 x 3.6 m. Photo: Vicki Petherbridge.