Ilka White

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 is central to White’s making process. Her current work explores relationships between the mind, body, time and place, and questions the separation of these elements.[1]

Ilka Jane White
Born
Maryborough, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater
Known forTextile art

Early life and education

White was born in Ivanhoe, Melbourne and grew up in the rural Victorian town of Maryborough, Shire of Central Goldfields with a steady stream of musicians, artists and makers dropping into the family home. White went on to study fashion design so she could become a costume designer and maker for the theatre.[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 University.[1] In 2008 White completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Tapestry) from Monash University in Melbourne.[3] Between 1999 and 2011 White taught on art and textiles at RMIT and was the teaching artist in residence at the Australian National University School of Art in 2012.[1]

Exhibitions

Whitework: A Contemporary Trousseau, Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, April 2004[4]

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. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  2. Kath Dolan. "Meet the maker: weaver Ilka White". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Meida Network. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. "Ilka White". 2nd Tamworth Textile Triennial. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  4. Martine Murray (April 2004). "A contemporary trousseau by Ilka White" (PDF). Retrieved 17 February 2017.
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