Celebrating 50 years of Women Artists
MELBOURNE ART FAIR ’26
19 - 22 February
Booth K8
With works by leading contemporary artists including Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Emily Ferretti, Karen Black, Miranda Skoczek and Yvette Coppersmith, this exhibition complements our 50th Anniversary presentation, Threaded Narratives: Celebrating 50 years of Women Artists on concurrently at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in South Melbourne.
Extend your Melbourne Art Fair visit with a stop at our gallery and workshop in South Melbourne, located at 262–266 Park Street. Getting to the ATW from the Melbourne Art Fair:
By car or taxi (5–10 minutes)
A short drive via City Road or Clarendon Street into South Melbourne.
By tram (10–15 minutes)
From the Clarendon Street tram stops near the MCEC precinct, take any southbound tram along Clarendon Street and get off at Park Street.
On foot (approx. 20–25 minutes)
Walk south along Clarendon Street into South Melbourne.
THREADED NARRATIVES: 50 YEARS OF WOMEN ARTISTS AT ATW
Over the past 50 years, the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) has worked with many of Australia’s most significant artists to translate their practices into tapestry. This exhibition exclusively features women artists, including Mirka Mora, Judy Watson, Janet Laurence, Emily Floyd and Lesley Dumbrell, and celebrates their contributions to Australian art.
Threaded Narratives examines how their diverse practices, spanning modernist figuration and abstraction to First Nations narrative painting, conceptual installation, and contemporary drawing, have been reinterpreted in tapestry.
Displayed alongside developmental samples, these works reveal tapestry as a site of experimentation, where ideas are reimagined through material, scale, and technique, and celebrate ATW’s contribution to Australian art history.
Exhibition dates: 12 February – 18 April 2026
Location: Australian Tapestry Workshop, 262–266 Park Street, South Melbourne.
EXPLORE MORE
Join us for a free guided tour of ATW on Saturday 21 February, at 2pm
Visit the only workshop of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere and enjoy special access to the workshop floor to see tapestries in progress on the loom and explore the Artists in Residence spaces. You will also go behind the scenes in our on-site Colour Laboratory, where specialised chemists create custom-dyed yarns for our master weavers.
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