Ilka White

Ilka White
Nationality Australian

Ilka Jane White is an Australian artist. Her practice spans projects in textiles, drawing, sculpture and installation, art-in-community and cross disciplinary collaboration. Direct engagement with the natural world (and the forces at work therein) is central to Ilka’s making process. Her current work explores relationships between the mind, body, time and place, and questions the separation of these elements.[1]

Early life and education

Ilka White was born in the rural Victorian town of Maryborough and grew up in the Shire of Central Goldfields with steady stream of musicians, artists and makers dropping into the family home. Torn between choosing art or drama, White went on to study fashion design so she could become a costume designer and maker for the theatre world.[2] After a few years working with costumes, White studied weaving and attained an Associate Diploma in Studio Textiles from Melbourne Institute of Textiles – now RMIT.[3] In 2008 White completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Tapestry) from Monash University, Melbourne[4]

Exhibitions

Whitework: A Contemporary Trousseau, Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, April 2004

In the World: (head, hand, heart), 17th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial, National tour, Australia, 2006

WALK, Portland Arts Centre, Portland, Victoria and National Tour, Australia, 2006-2009

Drawing Out, First Site Gallery, RMIT and Big Screen, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, 2010

Life in Your Hands: (Art from Solastalgia), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, National Tour, Australia, 2012

Material Culture', Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Australia, 2012

Petite: Miniature Textiles, Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia, 2012

Spinifex Country, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, Australia, 2013

TIME, Poimena Art Gallery, Launceston, Australia, 2013

Contemporary Textiles, Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta, Australia, 2013

GhostNets Fish, Martin Browne Contemporary, Paddington, Australia, 2014

Partnership, Lot19, Castlemaine, Australia, 2014

Artists for the Tarkine, Brightspace, St Kilda, Australia, 2014

Walking the Merri, RMIT Project Space, Carlton, Australia, 2014

Group Exchange, 2nd Tamworth Fibre Textile Triennial, National tour 2014-2016

See also

Australian art

References

  1. ↑ "Member Listing". Craft Victoria. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Dolan, Kath. "Meet the maker: weaver Ilka White". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Meida Network. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Member Listing". Craft Victoria. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Group Exchange - 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial http://2ndtamworthtextiletriennial.com/2014/05/30/ilka-white/. Retrieved 31 October 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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