Tender Dialogues: Two Contemporary Textile Practices in Conversation

Amy Voterakis, in collaboration with HALI Rugs, presents Tender Dialogues, an exhibition of new works by Melbourne/Naarm-based textile artists Claudia Bloxsome and Georgia Boseley. Created for installation in the HALI showroom, the exhibition presents major new fibre works within a context that appreciates the cultural and material value of textile-based art forms.

Historically positioned as a domestic or decorative craft, weaving has often been undervalued in relation to other art forms. Tender Dialogues presents fibre as expansive, considered and resolutely contemporary through two distinct yet complementary practices. Bloxsome’s diaphanous, loom-woven panels hang in the window, visible from the street. Inside, a closer physical and spatial encounter unfolds, with Bloxsome’s panels acting as a backdrop to Boseley’s bold vessels combining clay and pandanus.

Working through a meditative, experimental and fluid process, emerging artist Claudia Bloxsome embraces labour-intensive methodologies of hand-weaving while pushing conventional approaches to the medium. With a focus on surface building, light and scale, her work is finely tuned to offer a space of visual respite for the viewer.

Georgia Boseley is an award-winning Central and Eastern Arrernte artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). Her multidisciplinary practice spans weaving, ceramics and painting, and explores ideas of rupture, return and relationality. Grounded in traditional weaving techniques, her sculptural forms bring together natural materials and contemporary design to reflect lived experience, cultural continuity and the ongoing impact of colonial structures.

Boseley’s work is held in private collections across Australia and in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.