Edges of Existence

Co-curated by Amber Koroluk-Stephenson + Sharifah Emalia Al-Gadrie

Contemporary Art Tasmania, Nipaluna/Hobart

01 August - 12 September 2026

Edges of Existence

Emma Buswell

Hannah Gartside

Beth Hatton

\Nadia Hernandez

Ayman Kaake

Emma Rani Hodges

Lisa Rime

Anisha Sawaid

Jonny Scholes

Tassie Nannas

Bonni Que

Jemima Wyman

Edges of Existence is an exhibition of contemporary artists working with textiles to reimagine everyday materials as enduring mediums for storytelling, reclamation and soft resistance. Through works that span the intersections of tradition and technology, this exhibition explores ideas relating to identity, labour, value, migration, trade and ecology.

Across generations and geographies, textiles and fibre have shaped material culture and collective human experience, acting as everything from innovator to record-keeper. The poetics and politics of personal and cultural expression and reclamation, and the complex relationships between production, consumption and sustainability, are carried by textile-based practices in local and global settings. The collection of works in Edges of Existence emphasise the enduring capacity of textiles as a lasting medium to carry memory, meaning and social histories across time and place.