Tais Rose Wae
Tais Rose Wae — To Hold the Branch in its own Dappled Light, 2025
DONE/UNDONE
Curated by Joseph Gardner
VISIONARIES 2025: Presenting the future of Australian art, craft and design through the lens of one of the country's most influential creatives.
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This intricate weaving resonates with the tangible space it occupies, woven during a period of profound transformation and renewal. As the maple tree outside began to shed its leaves, a generous light bathed the loom, casting dappled patterns on the floor and pitched ceilings. In a process of reflection, it became an ode not simply to what is made, but to what is left untouched in the lace-like spaciousness. Framed by the subtle sun-inspired uses of paint in the border, the weaving celebrates of the space itself as a vessel for boundless possibility.
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Tais Rose Wae is an award-winning artist and poet gratefully based on Bundjalung Country. Her work explores the interconnections and imprints of maps of lineage, motherhood, and her Aboriginal ancestry and has most recently been reimagined and displayed across The Biennale of Sydney, The Dot Project, Powerhouse Museum and Tweed Regional Gallery.
Her poetry collection, Riverbed Sky Songs (Vagabond Press), won the 2024 Kenneth Slessor NSW Premier's Literary Award and has been short-listed for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award.
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14 November 2025 - 7 February 2026
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Joseph Gardner is the 2025 Visionaries curator – presenting DONE/UNDONE: an exhibition of 50+ artists, and one of Craft’s largest exhibitions to date – featuring artists working across medium, scale and practice, representing exceptional Australian talent.
DONE/UNDONE explores the creative process as a space of constant negotiation – a series of decisions to build, erase, repeat, or let be. It’s about that intuitive moment when a maker chooses to pause, to push further, or to dismantle entirely. These are the choices that define the rhythm of making – choices familiar to artists, designers, and creators across disciplines.
Joseph Gardner is the Style Editor at Vogue Living, with a decade of experience in publishing and styling, and the founder of Sydney-based gallery, Studio Gardner.
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Material: Linen, paint
Dimensions: approx. 102 x 48.5cm
Please note: purchased works are to be collected at the conclusion of the exhibition (7 February 2026).
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