Understanding and Caring for Textile Artefacts: a Second Identity. Seminar with Marion Parker

Speaker: Marion Parker, Textile Conservator with the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, University of Melbourne

Marion has worked at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the City Gallery Wellington, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, and Museum Victoria. Her expertise is in textile conservation and collection management, with a particular interest in dress history. 

The seminar will be of relevance not only to the exhibited artists and Memory Keepers whose textile works resonate with culture and identity, but also everyone who is the lucky inheritor or custodian of heritage objects crafted from fiber, such as: women’s fashion; handcrafted lace and crocheted items; loom woven linen used to make table cloths, napkins and bathroom towels; cotton embroidered bed linen and undergarments; and decorative items such as doylies. Generally speaking, the aforementioned items would have been lovingly created for young women’s dowry, and many would have travelled to Australia inside migrants’ cases, parcels and trunks.

This public program is presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) in partnership with Museo Italiano, Co.As.It. as an associated public program with the current exhibition Sailing into History: Displacement and Arrivals currently showing at the Museo.

FREE EVENT

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Details at multiculturalarts.com.au