Threads In Motion is a body of work emerging from a fertile intersection of sculptural crochet and the moving body.
This collaboration was activated in 2023 through the Regional Action Research Project facilitated by choreographic centre Critical Path, during which the two artists partnered in a year-long experiment in combining their practices. This has given rise to Threads in Motion: Moving Yarns (TIMMY) – equal parts visual spectacle, modular system, softly defined spatial territory, conceptual lens, and living entity in an ongoing process of creating itself.
The exhibition offers a window into TIMMY through artefacts of the experimental process including video, photographic images and crocheted structures.
Opening Event: Friday 7 February 2025 at 6pm.
Dr. Louisa Magrics is a Newcastle-based artist whose work centers on large-scale crochet installations and wearable art. Drawing from an interdisciplinary background, she integrates her experience as a drummer to explore the rhythms inherent in crochet forms. In 2022, Magrics was awarded a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle, with a focus on the relationship between crochet and drumming.
With over a decade of musical collaboration as a drummer, her practice investigates how rhythmic structures can be translated into textile art. Collaboration plays a central role in her work, both musically and within community-based art projects, where collective creation becomes a tool for expanding creative possibilities. Magrics combines traditional crochet techniques with painterly and sculptural approaches, examining the influence of cultural narratives and socialisation on fiber art practices within the contemporary art landscape of today.
Niki Schild is a collaborative multiform artist with a focus on dance in the context of live music and festival/carnival, and the physical dimensions of image making and writing. Her work circles around ideas such as ecological identity, the relational wiring of bodies, and the relevance of culture to health in the complex systems of the contemporary world.
A graduate of the Master of Creative Arts Therapy (Dance Movement Therapy) program at the University of Melbourne, she also applies these ideas in her therapy practice by positioning art as taking forms beyond traditional categories, and as able to extend the range of human interactions.
The exhibition runs 8 Feb 2025 – 27 April 2025.
Venue: Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre, 23 Maitland Rd, Singleton.
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 9.30am – 4.30pm.
Details: Visit singletonartsandculturalcentre.com.au
Image and media release courtesy of Singleton Council.