Jacqueline Stojanović
Jacqueline Stojanović — 'Pirot Notes' Wall Textile, 2017
Pirot Notes is a hand woven tapestry created in 2017 while the artist was in residence at the Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós, Iceland. Named for her inaugural solo exhibition Pirot Notes in 2018, which comprised a body of work encapsulating a year-long journey made overland from Central Asia to Serbia, the tapestry depicts an abstracted array of both traditional and contemporary motifs and visual impressions made upon the research journey. The work is attentive to the preservation of traditions during contemporary times in drawing direct reference to the artist's own ancestral link to Pirot ćilim weavers and the broader tradition of carpet making in Serbia, where there are currently only six women who continue the practice of traditional carpet making
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Jacqueline Stojanović is a multidisciplinary artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the eastern Kulin Nation. She is an artist, weaver and educator who works with historic and contemporary textile processes. The impetus of Stojanović’s expanded practice is grafted to her belief in weaving as an ancient carrier of culture. She continues the tradition of hand weaving within a contemporary framework to memorialise the cultural practice of her parents respective homelands in former-Yugoslavia and Vietnam. Her works borrow the vocabulary of Abstraction and assemble a host of materials from the industrial to the domestic, collaging time scapes, memories, translations, built environments, and folk traditions, to navigate shifts in collective social and material values, past and present.
Jacqueline is represented by Haydens in Naarm Melbourne, Australia.
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November 14, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Curated by Simone Haag
Craft is thrilled to invite internationally renowned Australian decorator Simone Haag as the guest curator of Craft’s final main gallery exhibition of 2024. Making her curatorial debut, Haag presents a group exhibition featuring works by more than 30 Australian artists.
Material: handwoven tapestry made of wool and cotton
Dimensions: 100 x 80 cm
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