Meredith Woolnough

Spirula Shell

$1,200.00

b.1985 Baulkham Hills NSW

Meredith Woolnough’s elegant embroidered traceries capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted embroidery threads. Through a delicate system of tiny stiches she creates intricate and complex openwork compositions that are then carefully pinned in shadowboxes like preserved specimens.

Meredith maps the frameworks of the various veining systems found in nature to create work that explores the balance, harmony and connectivity of life on earth. Inspired by the patterns, structures and shapes found in plants, coral, cells and shells her embroideries represent both the robust beauty and elegant fragility of life.

Meredith installing Typologies photo by Joerg Lehmann

Meredith installing Scribbly Gum Leaf at Tamworth Regional gallery

Artist CV

SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2018 Solastalgia, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport MA, USA
2018 New Textures: Print Re-Imagined, Port Jackson Press Australia, Collingwood
2018 Threads, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
2018 The Fragrant Garden, traffic jam galleries, Sydney
2018 Small & Wall, Flinders Land Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Entwine, Gallery 307, Northbridge
2018 Sculptures On The Farm, Dungog
2018 Artisans In The Garden, The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
2018 Arcadian Artist, Dural
2017 Fabricated, Cornell Art Museum, Florida USA
2017 Foliate – Residency Exhibition, Glasshouse, Port Macuqire
2017 Natural Selection; Nature Reimagined in Paper, Felt and Thread, Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral
2017 Pop-Up Exhibition, traffic jam galleries, Sydney
2017 Tamworth Textiles Triennial, Tamworth Regional Gallery
2016 Natural Networks, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle
2016 Collected 11, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2016 Highlight, traffic jam galleries, Sydney
2016 Holding, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle
2015 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2015 Stiched Specimens, Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral
2015 Artisans in the Garden, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens
2015 Small, Medium, Large, Newcastle Gallery Collective, Newcastle
2015 Arcadian Artists Studio, Dural
2014 Foyer Space, Tam worth Regional Gallery
2014 Stiched Specimens, The Milk Factory Gallery, Bowral
2014 Craft NSW Emerging Artist – Craft Award, Craft NSW, Sydney
2014 Petite, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria
2014 Akin, Timeless Textiles, Newcastle
2014 Open Acquisitive Prize, University Gallery, Callaghan
2014 Stock Room Show, Gallery Oscar, Turramurra
2014 Arcadian Artists, Dural
2014 Natural Inclinations, Art Space on the Concourse, Chatswood
2013 Melbourne Art Show, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Garden
2013 Handwise, Newcastle Art Space, Newcastle
2013 Entwined, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2013 Stockroom Show, Gallery Oscar, Turramurra
2013 Artisans In The Garden, Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens
2013 Arcadian Artists, Middle Dural
2013 Seascape and Beyond, Merewether SLSC
2013 Lindfield Art Show, Lindfield
2012 Sydney Art Expo, Horden Pavilion, Sydney
2012 Ethereal Threads, Timeless Textiles, Islington
2012 Tactility, Painters Gallery, Mona Vale
2012 Thread Paper Fibre Clay, Depot II, Dank St Galleries, Waterloo
2012 Petite Miniature Textiles, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta
2012 Seascape and Beyond, Merewether SLSC
2012 Port Steven’s Art Prize, Port Stevens Community Art Gallery, Nelson’s Bay
2011 Artisans In The Garden, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
2011 The Salon Show, Painters Gallery, Pittwater
2010 Reflection, Depot II, Dank St Gallery, Waterloo
2010 Interwined, Sassafras Creek, Kurrajong
2010 Interwined, Pablo & Rusty’s, Gordon
2010 Together, Complete Framing Gallery, North Manly
2009 Arcadian Artists, Middle Dural, Sydney, Manly Jazz Festival, Queenscliff Surf Club
2009 Petite, Mary Place Gallery, Paddington
2008 Arcadian Artists, Middle Dural, Sydney
2008 In-Site, Masters of Teaching Degree Show, Vaucluse House
2007 Arcadian Artists, Middle Dural, Sydney
2006 COFA Annual Graduation Show, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2006 Timing is Everything, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2005 COFA Annual Graduation Show, College of Fine Arts, Sydney
2005 Valency, Student Textiles Exhibition, Kudos Gallery, Sydney

EDUCATION
2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
2008 Master of Teaching, The University of Sydney

AWARDS
2015 Finalist, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award
2014 Wangaratta Art Gallery Emerging Artist, Craft Minor Award
2014 Finalist, Open Acquisitive Prize, University Gallery
2012 First Prize (Fibre Art Category), Port Stephens Art Prize
2012 Best In Show (Mixed Media), Winmalee Artfest

COLLECTIONS
Wangaratta Art Gallery – Permanent Collection
Tamworth Regional Gallery – Permanent Collection
Macquarie Group Collection
Private collections in Australia, Switzerland, Hong Kong, USA, Germany and the Netherlands

PUBLICATIONS
2017 Artistry in Fiber, Sculpture, Schiffer Publishing
2016 Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, Issue 124, December
2016 Embroidery Magazine, September/October (UK Magazine)
2016 Textiles Plus, Issue 237, October, (Dutch Magazine)
2015 Creative Workbox, Vol 4, November (UK Magazine)
2015 Handmade Lifestyle, Vol 34, Number 2, October
2015 Hunter Lifestyle Magazine, Edition 75, August/September
2015 Highlife, Volume 19, Number 6, August/September
2015 Down Under Textiles, Issue 20
2015 Fibre Arts Now, Summer Issue (US Magazine)
2015 Art Edit Magazine, May
2015 Textile Fibre Forum Magazine, March
2015 X-Ray Magazine, Number 6
2014 Stiches Magazine, December (US Magazine)
2014 Embellish Magazine, June
2014 Embellish Magazine, March
2013 Homespun Magazine, July