Donated to Ararat Gallery TAMA in the early 1990s, The Lady Barbara Grimwade Collection comprises her personal wardrobe including clothing, hats, handbags, shoes and assorted accessories. Featuring the designs of Arija Austin, the owner and designer of Tu (1965-1989), this will be the first major exhibition of the collection in over 20 years.
Under the expert guidance of textiles conservator Jacinta Brown, our team of staff and volunteers have been diligently working away in the collection room for four months, making meticulously careful conservation repairs and modifying display mannequins for each individual outfit.
This exhibition has been a long time coming; the Gallery team are delighted to invite you to join us to celebrate this landmark event.
Opening speeches from 2pm, followed by refreshments served in the Gallery foyer.
Free entry, bookings essential. Please scroll down to book ↓
Notions of Care explores the ways in which art and nurture are interlinked. Through the works of Arini Byng, Snapcat, Polly Stanton, Kate Tucker and Katie West, ways of caring are unfolded, cultivated, and enforced. The exhibition asks questions about the ways that art can care for both viewers and artists.
Throughout the exhibition, care is explored through a variety of means. From soft sculptural forms, bodily interrelations, field recordings and the scent of local flora, the exhibition welcomes a personal and intimate reverence of calm.
Notions of Care is a Bus Projects exhibition touring with NETS Victoria. Curated by Kathryne Genevieve Honey and Nina Mulhall.
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, and received assistance from NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund 2020, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
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Jade Kahle is an Ararat-based artist working under the label name zooblast.
Jade knits scarves, beanies and mittens, as well as soft, pliable sculptures inspired by squids, snakes and dogs that blur the lines between object and clothing.
Jade has practiced the craft of knitting for over 20 years. A Bachelor of Visual Art in the late 1990’s led to study with a Diploma of Fashion, which cemented knitting and fibre as part of her making, as ritual – stitch by stitch.
Jade is exhibiting her exhibition ‘Scarf Work’ on the Community Wall from Thursday 11 August to Tuesday 27 September 2022.
Lady Barbara Grimwade (born Barbara Gaerloch Kater) was born on August 27, 1935 in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia. Barbara’s early years were spent in Trangie, outback NSW.
Barbara’s interest and appreciation for well-tailored clothing and fashion began during her school days and her early adulthood. As a young woman Barbara favoured Marlowe of Sydney, a designer who had studied in France and was highly proficient in haute couture. Following a move to Melbourne, Barbara was a dedicated patron of Arija Austin, the owner and designer of Tu in South Yarra. Austin’s designs were classically simple, austere, yet dramatic in colour and impact.
After graduating in physiotherapy from Sydney University, in 1959 she married Andrew Grimwade, a chemical engineer and scientist recently returned from Oxford. The Grimwade family were pioneers of the pharmaceutical and chemical industries in Victoria. Barbara and Andrew shared a joint love of skiing, historical travel, and the arts. Andrew was knighted in 1980 for services to the Arts and the Community.
Following her death in March 1990, Barbara’s son Mr Angus K Grimwade generously donated over 400 items from her wardrobe to Ararat Gallery, including clothing, hats, handbags, shoes and assorted accessories of gloves, belts and scarves.
Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s.
We have over a thousand artworks and objects in our collection, including quilts, tapestries, baskets, embroideries, fashion pieces, rugs and weavings.
Over the last 50 years the Gallery space has increased significantly, most recently during the Arts Precinct Redevelopment Project, completed in August 2018. During that project, the Gallery doubled its exhibition and collection spaces, and in recognition of its significant textile collection was renamed Ararat Gallery TAMA – for Textile Art Museum Australia.
Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s.
We have over a thousand artworks and objects in our collection, including quilts, tapestries, baskets, embroideries, and weavings.
Over the last 55 years the Gallery space has increased significantly, most recently during the Arts Precinct Redevelopment Project, completed in August 2018. During that project, the Gallery doubled its exhibition and collection spaces, and in recognition of its significant textile collection was renamed Ararat Gallery TAMA – Textile Art Museum Australia.
Ararat Gallery was established in 1968 as a few small rooms in the Old Municipal Offices of the Ararat Town Hall. Taking inspiration from Ararat’s historical association with fine merino wool production, we have been committed to exhibiting and collecting textile and fibre art since the 1970s.
We have over a thousand artworks and objects in our collection, including quilts, tapestries, baskets, embroideries, and weavings.
Over the last 55 years the Gallery space has increased significantly, most recently during the Arts Precinct Redevelopment Project, completed in August 2018. During that project, the Gallery doubled its exhibition and collection spaces, and in recognition of its significant textile collection was renamed Ararat Gallery TAMA – Textile Art Museum Australia.
Carole Mules (nee Anderson) was born in 1946 at the Willaura Bush Nursing Hospital to parents Arthur and Dulcie, who were working at Mt William Stations a few kilometres out of town. It was in her youth that working on the land with her father had a profound influence on her personal development and provided Carole with a sense of place and a passion for landscapes and geography.
After studying art and teaching at the School of Mines in Ballarat, Carole moved to Melbourne to raise a family where she developed her interest in photography, textiles and ceramics while pursuing a career in community development. A move to rural SE Queensland in the early 1980s saw Carole set up art and theatre programmes, and study to gain a degree in Land Management.
Having returned to Western Victoria in the 2010s, Carole undertook further study to develop her textiles practice, and drew on the history and memories of Willaura and surrounding regions for inspiration. Carole created a rich pallet of textures and colours using combinations of contact printing with native plants and found objects, freehand machine stitching, hand stitching, cut and collage, floral resist, and tying and folding fabric.
Carole passed away in September 2021 following a short illness.
Jade Kahle is an Ararat-based artist working under the label name zooblast.
Jade knits scarves, beanies and mittens, as well as soft, pliable sculptures inspired by squids, snakes and dogs that blur the lines between object and clothing.
Jade has practiced the craft of knitting for over 20 years. A Bachelor of Visual Art in the late 1990’s led to study with a Diploma of Fashion, which cemented knitting and fibre as part of her making, as ritual – stitch by stitch.
Scarf Work represents a survey of artworks that challenge the concept of the Scarf as merely a length of cloth, a rectangle, a triangle, or a square.