Jasminka Ward-Matievic — 'Battista Sforza' Textile Artwork (2018)

'Battista Sforza' reimagines the frame not as a boundary, but as a space for experimentation and creative possibility.

Created by Naarm/Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist Jasminka Ward-Matievic, this artwork is part of Salon Hang, a vitrine exhibition showcasing eight female and non-binary artists who challenge the traditional role of the frame in Western art. 

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Jasminka Ward-Matievic is a multidisciplinary artist and a teacher who lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. She works with a variety of materials and is drawn to various art forms such as sculpture, mosaic, knitting and embroidery. As a child of refugees, making has always been a political act for Jasminka and she continues to draw inspiration from collective feminist art, craft traditions and women of the past and present. 

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Salon Hang

Vitrine

June 19 - July 26, 2025 

Salon Hang brings together eight female and non-binary artists who challenge the traditional role of the frame in Western art. Working across a range of craft practices, each artist has reimagined the frame, not as a boundary, but as a space for experimentation and creative possibility.

As well as somewhere to display paintings, the “salon” was a place where women came together to educate themselves. Salon Hang aims to connect women from various artistic backgrounds, using the frame and craftwork as symbols for collective solidarity.

Georgia Anson, Ruby Brown, Lauren Cameron, Georgina Proud, Samantha Seary, Madeleine Thornton-Smith, Kate Tucker and Jasminka Ward-Matievic

Curated by Madeleine Thorton-Smith

Learn more here

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Material: wool, cotton, beads, pearls, wood, repurposed materials

Dimensions: Approx. 24 x 24 x 5cm

Please note when purchasing, exhibition works are to be collected when exhibition closes.