BRIEF: The aim of the eleven artists is to create a textile and mixed-media travelling exhibition. The initial inspiration was the map of the Western Hemisphere embroidered by Elizabeth Cook (c.1800) that shows the voyages of her husband James Cook currently housed at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney. Elizabeth Cook’s map provided a starting point from which the concept of ‘map’ can be understood and interpreted in both concrete and abstract ways. Maps can be about many things; geography, history, geology, personal space, migration, movement, memory, travel, genealogy.

Exhibition Dates

Museum of the Riverina,

Botanic Gardens site, Wagga Wagga: March 15 to April 29, 2012


Shoalhaven City Arts Centre,

12 Berry Street, Nowra: May 31 to July 26, 2012

Launch Saturday, June 2, 12noon to 2pm


McGlade Gallery, ACU Strathfield campus, June 15 - July 6, 2013


Cessnock Regional Art Gallery, 16 Vincent Street, Cessnock, Feb 19 to March 16, 2014








Friday, 6 April 2012

The show hits the road

The exhibition has opened at Museum of the Riverina at Wagga Wagga

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Mercator's 500th birthday

The Powerhouse Museum's daily blog has a fun map to celebrate the day.

Friday, 10 February 2012

You are here

An exhibition at the Stockroom Gallery in Kyneton, Victoria has just closed. Not to worry, ours will open in Wagga Wagga next month. 

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Are we there yet?



Exhibition of comtemporary Australian artists who survey and ponder our place in the world. Where do we go when we have consumed all there is to consume, wreaked havoc on our environment and misrepresented our histories? Artists include Daniel Boyd, Nadine Christensen, Sarah Goffman, Fiona Lowry, Bennett Miller, Arlo Mountford, Joan Ross, Caroline Rothwell, Bernie Slater and Jemima Wyman.
When: Jan 28 to March 13, 
Where: Casula Powerhouse, 1 Casula Road, Casula

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Post cards to embroider

Donna found an intriguing site while trolling for Christmas ideas.


And Linda found these fabulous maps of volcanos.


Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Finding Antarctica: Mapping the last Continent

This exhibition includes about 100 rare maps spanning centuries of fascination with the great southern land. It draws from the library's collection of 200,000 maps.


On his second voyage in 1772, Captain Cook set out to prove whether Antarctica existed. He didn't find it and decided that if there was land down there it was uninhabitable.


When: Dec 5, 2011 to Feb 19, 2012
Where: State Library of NSW

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Captain Cook's waistcoat

I looked it up on the Australian Dress Register:
http://www.australiandressregister.org/garment/160/

And learned that it had been cut down to fit a female owner. Elizabeth would have been horrified.