Announcing…
…our latest travelling suitcase exhibition!
So what’s a travelling suitcase exhibition?
The concept is simply an exhibition in a suitcase.
The suitcase is filled with up to twenty textile artworks, and 30 tiles made from materials kits, and a folder of artists’ statements. These techniques sheets include the artist’s inspiration and basic instructions for one technique used in the work. It’s an amazing resource for teachers and a source of inspiration for other textile artists.
The exhibition is free to all. The only cost is transport costs to the next venue, by Australia Post registered mail. This is the fourth travelling suitcase exhibition mounted by ATASDA. The two suitcases of the third exhibition, The Maharajah’s Garden, travelled all over Australia, from March 2010 until February 2012.
Marrakesh
Take an exotic journey along the trade routes of North Africa to the ancient city of Marrakesh, a place of richness and intense colour, where cultures meet. Wander through the souk within the ancient walls of the medina quarter, with its snake charmers, heaped spices, acrobats, secluded riads and tiled minarets. Take the ancient trade routes across the fabled Atlas Mountains. Imagine the colours, the scents, the stories and myths, the magic of Morocco’s Red City, Marrakesh.
Exhibition Pieces
Each suitcase contains about twenty exotic and vibrant textile works in a range of different media.
Artworks "Marietta from Marrakesh" (left, by Helen Whelan) and "YSL Summer Villa" (right, by Toni Ivering).
The works are light but robust (to withstand the travelling process), ranging in size from 15cm square to 120cm x 200cm. They can be displayed both flat and/or hanging to suit the individual requirements of the exhibition recipients.
Collaborative Tiles Project
In addition, visitors will be enticed into the exhibition with colourful and eye-catching individually-designed tiles, that can be attached together to form a flexible collaborative display. Made from kits to a standard shape and size, the tiles demonstrate the very individual work that textile artists can do, from the same starting point.
An example of the Tile artworks by Denise Lithgow (left) and Pamela Priday (right).
Booking the Marrakesh exhibition
Marrakesh is a complete textile art exhibition in a suitcase. From March 2012, it will be available for loan to schools, groups and communities across Australia. You do not need to be a member of ATASDA to book Marrakesh.
Along with the individual exhibition pieces, the tiles and the techniques sheets, the suitcase contains cotton gloves for handling the artworks, a catalogue list of works and tiles to be copied for visitors to the exhibition, and a guest book.
The only cost is the registered postage to the next venue. Generally, bookings are arranged geographically as much as possible, to minimise postage costs, and often our suitcases get five-start treatment, being chauffeured to their next destination.
For further information or bookings, please email us for details.
