Join artist Susan Wirth in conversation with Ararat Gallery TAMA Coordinator Katy Mitchell to celebrate the opening of Susan’s exhibition Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking, on Saturday 12th September 2026, 2pm – 4pm.

Sleeping, Dreaming, Waking is a series of textile collages developed through periods of research in and around Ararat and the Wimmera Mallee. The project examines how visitor status, site specificity, and settler heritage intersect in a contemporary textile practice. Using found textiles and second‑hand woollen blankets – materials tied to industrial manufacturing and histories of colonisation – Wirth constructs geometric, rhythmical compositions that operate as scaffolds for formal and conceptual exploration.

Wirth is a Naarm (Melbourne) based artist whose practice works across sculpture, collage and video. Working with second-hand and found materials, she produces low-relief textile works and site-responsive installations that foreground materiality, process and the transformative potential of everyday experience. Through layering, accumulation and acts of reconfiguration, Wirth engages abstraction to examine perception, consciousness and the entangled histories of settler identity in relation to place.

This event is free entry, with bookings requested to help plan catering and seating. Please scroll down to book ↓