Prefix a textile exhibition showing in both Kobe Japan and Perth West Australia includes my "core sample terra australia" . It is a 30 metre length of hand plied plant dyed silk string piled into a perspex tube and sealed. The layers of the silk in earth colours do resemble a core sample when it is withdrawn from the earth .
It will be show at the WA museum until the new year.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
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NALDA MAY SEARLES
E: naldasearles1@bigpond.com
EDUCATION
1989 - 91 Fine Arts degree painting major (distinction). Curtin University of Technology, WA
1978 till present Self taught fibre textile basketry and stitch skills
1969 - 72 Psych nurse training Mental Health Services, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 Nalda Searles Drifting in my own Land continues national tour until 2013
2010 13th Trienale of Tapestry Lodz Poland
The Stringmakers. Tjulyuru Art Centre Warburton Ranges and Holmes A Court Gallery WA?
2009 -13 Nalda Searles Drifting in My Own Land. National tour to 18 venues
2007 - 10 Recoil National touring exhibition. MAGNT
2006 - 08 Woven Forms National touring exhibition
2007 Canopy of Air Elllenbrook Gallery, WA
Mine own Executioner Mundaring Arts Centre, WA touring exhibition
2004 - 06 Seven Sisters: Fibres Arising from the West FORM, WA touring exhibition
2001 SOFA Chicago USA. Australian Craft Council
On Line artist in residence John Curtin Gallery with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Folded Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Home is Where the Heart is Art Museum University of South Australia, SA
1983 Basketry of Nalda Searles Cheese Factory, Balingup, WA
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2000 East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mine painting project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mural with ngaatjatjarra language
with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
1998 Mullewa Community Park Design, WA
1997 Piney Lakes Sculpture Project Melville, WA
1997 O’Connor Primary School Design and Structure Project with Mary Mclean
( State Gov Award for excellence)
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, LECTURES
2010 Northern Queensland Indigenous communities Ghost Net Project
2009 Sustaining Yarns Speaker and workshop Museum of Australia ACT
2008 Creative Development Workshop, Hobart, TAS
Canning Stock Route project. Kunnawaritie Martu Milli Arts & Form
2007 South Project Soweto. Johannesburg, South Africa
Basket Makers of Victoria Design Development Workshop
Curtin University Visual Art Students Workshop. Fibre Textiles
Blackstone Festival. Tutor. Blackstone Community
Clever Hands FORM Port Hedland in association with Woven Forms exhibition. Tutor
Jigalong Community. Martumilli Arts. Punmu Community. Tutor
2006 Tafta at Geelong Tutor. Fibre Textile Workshop by 1 week. Tutor
Selling Yarns (Indigenous Fibre textiles) Charles Sturt University Darwin. Speaker
Woven Forms Workshop Leader. 100 women at FORM
Woven Forms Forum. Speaker
2005 Residency Blackstone Community. Fibre textiles. Tutor
Tatfta @ Brisbane, Tutor
Residency Parrngurr Community. Tutor
2004 South Project. Craft Victoria Speaker and Workshop
Residency Parnngurr Community. Tutor
Arts Event Blackstone Community. Tutor
Tjanpi Festival Warburton Ranges. Speaker and Tutor
Dwellings Onslow Primary School (with Wallace Greenham)
2003 Residency Punmu Community Western Desert. Tutor
Residency Carnarvon Community. Tutor
Publications
2009 Nalda Searles Drifitng in My Own Land, Publication. Catalogue for the exhibition Editor Andrew Nicholls
A Stitching Of Words DVD 28 minutes. For the exhibition Producer Dr G Skevos Karpathakis ECU.
2009 Surface Design USA .Writer Wendy Lugg.
2008 Recoil ArtBack NT. Edited Margie West
2007 Canopy of Air Catalogue essay Philippa O'Brien
ART TEXTILES of the WORLD Australia Vol 2. Telos. UK
Cultural Strands FORM Publication
2006 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
2005 Woven Forms Object Gallery, NSW. Catalogue
2004 Seven Sisters - Fibres Arising from the West Catalogue for the exhibition editor Andrew Nicholls.
2003 Tracking Cloth Wollongong City Gallery Catalogue
2002 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
2000 Essential Truths Readily to Hand Catalogue
1998 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
1997 Masters of Their Craft Noris Ionou
Recovering Catalogue for the exhibition.
Awards and Grants.
2009 Lifetime contribution to the arts. Perth WA. Inaugural Artsource Award
2006 New Work Grant. ArtsWA for preparation for Fellowship application
1998 Award for Excellence in Public Art, Government of Western Australia
1995 Mid career fellowship form WEST Australian Dept for the Arts.
CV. and contact
CURRICULUM VITAE
NALDA MAY SEARLES
EDUCATION
1989 - 91 Fine Arts degree painting major (distinction). Curtin University of Technology, WA
1978- present Self taught fibre textiles.
1969 - 72 Psychiatric nurse training Mental Health Services, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 NALDA SEARLES drifting in my own land . National touring
Beyond Garment. Museum of Western Australia
The Stringmakers Tjulyuru Arts Warburton Ranges. Holmes A Court Gallery Perth
13th International Tapestry Exhibition LODZ POLAND
Sacred Sanctum. Mundaring Art Centre
2009 -2013 NALDA SEARLES drifting in my own land. To 18 venues nationally.
2007 - 10 Recoil National touring. ArtBack, NT.
2006 - 08 Woven Forms. National touring. Object, NSW.
2007 Canopy of Air Ellenbrook Gallery, WA
2006 17th Tamworth Biennial and national touring
2004 - 06 Seven Sisters: Fibres Arising from the West. FORM, WA State touring.
2002 - 04 Tracking Cloth. Wollongong City Art Gallery, Indonesia
2002 Coiled up. Adelaide Festival. Intertwine Project
2001 SOFA Chicago USA. Australian Craft Council
On Line with Pantjiti Mary Mclean artists in residence John Curtin Gallery
Folded. Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Commitment. Fellows Exhibition FORM, WA
Home is Where the Heart is. Art Museum UNISA.
2000 Folded. Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Miniature Textiles. Art and Craft Museum, Itami, Japan
1999 X recent works. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Searles at the Bat Centre. Durban, South Africa
1997 recoverings. Moores Building, Fremantle. WA
1996 Language of the Land Learning Ngaanyatjarra. Kalla Yeedip, Midland, WA
1995 Longitudinal Project Minmya Kutjara. Pantjiti Mary Mclean and Nalda Searles. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1992 En Kai Paii process project. PICA, WA
1989 Sticks and Stones. Eileen Keys and Nalda Searles. Christensen Collection, state touring.
1988 Burnt Offerings. Searles, Keys Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1987 Bush Picnic. Searles, Keys, Sounness, Barspuil. New Collectables, WA
1986 Strings From the Pilbara. Narek Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1985 Bush Meetings and Basketry. Craft Council of Western Australia, WA
1983 Basketry of Nalda Searles. Cheese Factory, Balingup, WA
CURATORIAL
2010 Mine Own Executioner. Mundaring Art Centre
2002 - 05 Dr Pantjiti Mary Mclean Fellowship Retrospective Tandanya, SA
2001 Pantjiti Mary Mclean. On Line. John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, WA
1999 Mustering, Go Along Now. Pantjiti Mary Mclean. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1998 Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Panjtiti Mary Mclean and Nalda Searles at Goldfields Arts Centre. Kalgoorlie, WA
1995. Pantjiti Mary Mclean Festival of Perth Artist. Fremantle Art Centre
1994 High Fibre Diet with John Kean Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Warta Kutju Street Art Project Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
Warta Kutju Street Art Project Border Art Workshops, San Diego, USA
Street Art Children’s Art with Philippa O'Brien, Kalla Yeedip Gallery, Midland, WA
1993 Hunting Grounds Pantjiti Mary Mclean Paintings with John Kean,
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1984 Grass Basketry of Marjorie Ridley Craft Council of Western Australia, WA
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2000 East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mine painting project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mural using Ngaatjatjarra language
with Pantjiti Mary Mclean. Kalgoorlie WA.
1997 Piney Lakes Sculpture Project Melville, WA
O’Connor Primary School Design and Structure Project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean (Award for excellence). Kalgoorlie WA.
1995 Doomboom Kep with composer Kerry Fletcher. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and Fremantle Festival Street Projection WA.
1994 - 95 Gnarogin Park, Site Artist Narrogin WA.
1994 Lake Monginup Reserve Esperance Project, Design team visual artist. Esperance WA.
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, LECTURES.
2010 Wongutha Birni Women . Wongutha Birni. Kalgoorlie.
Dollmaking revival Narrogin , Young Nyoongar warts
Ghost Net Project. Torres Strait Darnley Island
Amulet workshops Bunbury Regional Gallery.
Fibre Textile winter workshops. Moora Fine Arts Assoc.
2009 Selling Yarns Speaker and workshop faciltator. National Museum of Australia. ACT. Indigenous Craft Conference.
2008 Silk waste craft development project for impoverished women. Vikasana Mandya India.
Fibres West workshop Bunbury WA.
2008 -1987 Inclusive Edith Cowan University textile student bush camps, workshops, tutor, artist in residence. Regional WA.
Martumili artists, Kunnawarritji WA.
Creative development workshop, Hobart, TAS.
2007 South Project Soweto. Johannesburg, South Africa
Basket Makers of Victoria Design development workshop
Blackstone Festival. Tutor. Papulankutju Community WA.
Clever With Our Hands FORM Port Hedland WA. In association with Woven Forms exhibition. Tutor
Jigalong Community. Martumilli Arts. Punmu Community WA.
2006 Tafta at Geelong Tutor. Fibre Textile Workshops
Selling Yarns (Indigenous Fibre textiles) Charles Sturt University Darwin NT. Speaker
Woven Forms Workshop Leader. 100 women at FORM
Woven Forms Forum. Speaker
2005 Residency Papalangkutju Community WA.
Tatfta at Brisbane workshops. QLD
Artist residency Parrngur Martu Community WA.
2004 South Project. Craft Victoria Speaker and Workshop
Artist residency Parrngur Martu Community WA.
Arts Event Papalangkutju Blackstone Community WA.
Tjanpi Festival Warburton Ranges WA
.2003 Artist residency Punmu Martu Community WA.
Artist residency Carnarvon WA.
2002 Adelaide Festival Intertwine Project. Tutor
2001 TAFTA at Geelong workshops. VIC.
2000 Canberra School of Art residency in fibre textiles.ACT.
Wollongong University residency in fibre textiles. NSW.
1999 Lectures Pretoria Tecknikon, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Artist in residence, Bat Centre, Durban, South Africa
1998 - 99 TAFTA Fibre Textile Workshops, Mittagong. Tutor
1997 - 01 Inclusive Environment Art and Design Midland TAFE, Fibre Textiles/Painting
1996 Western Desert fibre workshops.
1994 Fibre Networks. High Fibre Diet. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA. Tutor
1994 - 98 Narrogin Aboriginal Corporation. Intermittent fibre textiles workshops.
(Narrogin Dolls Joyce Winsley and co)
1993 - 95 Hobart and Regional Tasmania fibre workshops and residency.
1991 - 93 Inclusive Warta Kutju Aboriginal Corporation street art project. Healthway, Kalgoorlie, WA
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Museum of Craft Itami Japan.
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Janet Holmes ACourt
Kerry Stokes .
John Curtin University .
Edith Cowan University .
Murdoch Unversity .
Wollongong City Art Gallery
In collections in collaboration with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
AWARDS
2009 Lifetime membership Award WAFTA for contribution to Textile practice in WA>.
2009 Inauguaral award Artsource. Contribution to the Visual Arts in Western Australia.
2008 New Work Grant ArtsWA for further development of works. Essay fees.
2006 New Work Grant. ArtsWA for preparation for Fellowship application
1998 Award for Excellence in Public Art, Government of Western Australia
1997 Fellow Craft West
1995 Creative Development Fellowship ArtsWA
1991 Awards for outstanding graduating student Curtin University Visual Theory & Painting
1984 Creative Development Grant Australia Council For the Arts.
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Contained Cecile Williams ART MONTHLY. April ,
2009 NALDA SEARLES drifting in my own land. Catalogue.
2008 Recoil ArtBack NT. Edited Margie West
2007 Canopy of Air Catalogue essay Philippa O'Brien
ART TEXTILES of the WORLD Australia Vol 2. Telos. UK
Cultural Strands FORM Publication
2006 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial catalogue
2005 Woven Forms Object Gallery, NSW. catalogue
2004 Seven Sisters - Fibres Arising from the West catalogue
2003 Tracking Cloth Wollongong City Gallery catalogue
2002 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial catalogue
2000 Essential Truths Readily to Hand catalogue
1998 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial catalogue
1997 Masters of Their Craft Noris Ionou
Periphery Magazine Issue 31 and 37
recovering catalogue 1995
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NALDA MAY SEARLES
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EDUCATION
1989 - 91 Fine Arts degree painting major (distinction). Curtin University of Technology, WA
1978 Commenced Self teaching fibre textile basketry and stitch skills
1969 - 72 Psych nurse training Mental Health Services, WA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Stringmakers. Tjulyuru Gallery Warburton Ranges and Holmes a Court Gallery Perth.WA
2010 13th International Tapestry Trienial of Lodz Museum Poland.
2009 -2013 Nalda Searles Drifting in My Own Land. National Australian Tour . 18 venues.
2009 Yellow Vest Syndrome Fremantle Arts Centre. WA
2007 - 10 Recoil National touring exhibition. MAGNT
2006 - 08 Woven Forms National touring exhibition
2007 Canopy of Air Elllenbrook Gallery, WA
Freeing the beast Spectrum Gallery, WA
2006 17th Tamworth Biennial and touring
Call and response Crafts Council of NT, Darwin, NT
Mine own Executioner Mundaring Arts Centre, WA touring exhibition
2004 - 06 Seven Sisters: Fibres Arising from the West FORM, WA touring exhibition
2002 - 04 Tracking Cloth Wollongong City Art Gallery, toured Indonesia
2002 Coiled up Adelaide Festival. Intertwine Project
2001 SOFA Chicago USA. Australian Craft Council
On Line artist in residence John Curtin Gallery with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Folded Australian Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand
Commitment Fellows Exhibition FORM, WA
Home is Where the Heart is Art Museum University of South Australia, SA
2000 Folded Gallery Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Miniature Textiles Art and Craft Museum, Itami, Japan
1999 X (Go along Now) Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Searles at Bat Centre Durban, South Africa
1997 Recoverings Moores Building, Fremantle. WA
1996 Language of the Land Learning Ngaanyatjarra. Kalla Yeedip, Midland, WA
1995 Longitudinal Project Minmya Kutjara. Pantjiti Mary Mclean and Nalda Searles.
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1992 En Kai Paii process project. PICA, WA
1989 Sticks and Stones Eileen Keys and Nalda Searles. Christensen Collection,
WA touring exhibition
1988 Burnt Offerings with Eileen Keys Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1987 Bush Picnic with Keys and Sounness New Collectables Gallery, WA
1986 Strings From the Pilbara Narek Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1985 Bush Meetings and Basketry Craft Council of Western Australia, WA
1983 Basketry of Nalda Searles Cheese Factory, Balingup, WA
CURATORIAL
2010 Mine Own Executioner . Mundaring Art Centre.
2002 - 05 Dr Pantjiti Mary Mclean Fellowship Retrospective Tandanya, SA
2001 Pantjiti Mary Mclean. On Line. John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, WA
1999 Go Along Now. Fremantle Arts Centre. 3 Galleries, WA
1998 Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Recent Paintings Pantjiti Mary Mclean Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Searles CV 2
1996 Recoverings assistant co-ordinator with Holly Story and Christina McGuinness
Panjtiti Mary Mclean and Nalda Searles at Goldfields Arts Centre Gallery, Kalgoorlie, WA
1994 High Fibre Diet with John Kean Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
Warta Kutju Street Art Project Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA
Warta Kutju Street Art Project Border Art Workshops, San Diego, USA
Searles cv 2
Street Art Children’s Art with Philippa O'Brien, Kalla Yeedip Gallery, Midland, WA
1993 Hunting Grounds Pantjiti Mary Mclean Paintings with John Kean,
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
1984 Grass Basketry of Marjorie Ridley Craft Council of Western Australia, WA
ENVIRONMENT COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2000 East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mine painting project with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
East Kalgoorlie Primary School Mural with ngaatjatjarra language
with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
1998 Mullewa Community Park Design, WA
1997 Piney Lakes Sculpture Project Melville, WA
O’Connor Primary School Design and Structure Project with Mary Mclean
(Award for excellence)
1995 Doomboom Kep with composer Kerry Fletcher. Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
and Fremantle Festival Street Projection
1994 - 95 Gnarogin Park, Site Artist Narrogin
1994 Lake Monginup Reserve Esperance Project, Design team visual artist. CEAD
WORKSHOPS, RESIDENCIES, TEACHING, LECTURES
2009 -13 Public floor talks ofn touring exhibition.
2009 Workshop development Roebourne Arts Group.
2008 Creative Development Workshop, Hobart, TAS
2007 South Project Soweto. Johannesburg, South Africa
Basket Makers of Victoria Design Development Workshop
Curtin University Visual Art Students Workshop. Fibre Textiles
Blackstone Festival. Tutor. Blackstone Community
Clever Hands FORM Port Hedland in association with Woven Forms exhibition. Tutor
Jigalong Community. Martumilli Arts. Punmu Community. Tutor
2006 Tafta at Geelong Tutor. Fibre Textile Workshop by 1 week. Tutor
Selling Yarns (Indigenous Fibre textiles) Charles Sturt University Darwin. Speaker
Woven Forms Workshop Leader. 100 women at FORM
Woven Forms Forum. Speaker
2005 Residency Blackstone Community. Fibre textiles. Tutor
Tatfta @ Brisbane, Tutor
Residency Parrngurr Community. Tutor
2004 South Project. Craft Victoria Speaker and Workshop
Residency Parnngurr Community. Tutor
Arts Event Blackstone Community. Tutor
Tjanpi Festival Warburton Ranges. Speaker and Tutor
2003 Residency Punmu Community Western Desert. Tutor
Residency Carnarvon Community. Tutor
2002 Adelaide Festival Intertwine Project. Tutor
2001 TAFTA at Geelong. Tutor
2000 Canberra School of Art Residency in Fibre Textiles. Tutor
Wollongong University Residency in Fibre Textiles Tutor
1987 - 06 Inclusive Edith Cowan University Textile Student Bush Camp, Workshops, Lectures
Tutor and Artist in Residence
1999 Lectures Pretoria Tecknikon and Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Artist in Residence, Bat Centre, Durban, South Africa
1998 - 99 TAFTA Fibre Textile Workshops, Mittagong. Tutor
1997 - 01 Inclusive Environment Art and Design Midland TAFE, Fibre Textile/Painting
1996 Western Desert Fibre Workshops. Tutor
1994 Fibre Networks High Fibre Diet. Fremantle Arts Centre, WA. Tutor
1994 - 98 Narrogin Aboriginal Corporation. Teaching Fibre Textiles
(Narrogin Dolls Joyce Winsley and co)
1993 - 95 Hobart and Regional Tasmania Fibre Workshops and Residency. Tutor
1991 - 93 Inclusive Warta Kutju Aboriginal Corporation Street Art Project.
Healthway, Kalgoorlie, WA
Searles cv3
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Museum of Western Australia
Museum and Art Gallery of Northern Territory
Wollongong City Gallery
Edith Cowan University Art Collection
John Curtin Gallery Art Collection
Murdoch University Art Collection
Australian Capital Equity, Kerry Stokes Art Collection
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan
John Curtin University Art Collection in collaboration with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Clements Collection in collaboration with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Weise Collection in collaboration with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Queensland Art Gallery in collaboration with Pantjiti Mary Mclean
Australian Capital Equity, Kerry Stokes Art Collection in collaboration with Pantjiti Maru Mclean
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Nalda Searles A stitching of words. DVD produced by George Karpathakis and AlisonBarrett
2009 Nalda Searles Drifting in My Own Land. Editied by Andrew Nicholls.
2008 Recoil ArtBack NT. Edited Margie West
2007 Canopy of Air Catalogue essay Philippa O'Brien
ART TEXTILES of the WORLD Australia Vol 2. Telos. UK
Cultural Strands FORM Publication
2006 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
2005 Woven Forms Object Gallery, NSW. Catalogue
2004 Seven Sisters - Fibres Arising from the West Catalogue
2003 Tracking Cloth Wollongong City Gallery Catalogue
2002 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
2000 Essential Truths Readily to Hand Catalogue
1998 17thTamworth Fibre Textile Biennial Catalogue
1997 Masters of Their Craft Noris Ionou
Periphery Magazine Issue 31 and 37
Recovering Catalogue
AWARDS
2010 Lifetime membership to WAFTA for contribution to textiles
2009 Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the Visual Arts.
2006 New Work Grant. ArtsWA for preparation for Fellowship application
1998 Award for Excellence in Public Art, Government of Western Australia
1997 Fellow Craft West
1995 Creative Development Fellowship ArtsWA
1991 Awards for outstanding graduating student Curtin University Visual Theory & Painting
1984 Creative Development Grant Australia Council
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