kay lawrence selected writing


2019

‘Weaving the Way’ Kay Lawrence, exhibition review, Artlink 11 October 2011
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/4793/weaving-the-way/

2018

‘Bodily Cloth: The Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Kepple and Jane Whiteley’, Kay Lawrence, (eds) Anne Collett and Leigh Dale, Postcolonial Past and Present: Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies, Brill Rodopi, Leiden, Boston

2018

Clare Belfrage, Rhythms of Necessity, Kay Lawrence & Sera Waters, Wakefield Press, Adelaide

2017

‘The job you didn’t know you always wanted: the 2016 Australian Tapestry Workshop Trainee Program’, Kay Lawrence, Marmalade, JamFactory, Issue 5/01 Adelaide, pp 44-47

2016

‘Adventure and Ambition, Kay Lawrence, in Many Hands: The First 40 Years of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, (eds) Mark Butler, Jenny Port, Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney pp 95-101

2016

‘On Translation’, Kay Lawrence, Tapestry Design Prize for Architects catalogue, Australian Tapestry Workshop

2015

Landscape, Place and Identity in Craft and Design, Lawrence Kay, (ed) craft + design enquiry, Issue 7, 2015

2015

‘Jane Whiteley; Body of Work’, Kay Lawrence, book review, ‘Textile: Journal of Cloth & Culture’, Vol 13, Issue 1, 2015

2013

‘Stitched in the Margins’, Kay Lawrence, ‘On the Margin’ ed. Michael Tawa & Linda Marie Walker, Architectural Theory Review, Vol.18, No 2

2013

‘A woman’s place is in the house: The Womens Suffrage Centenary Tapestries’, Kay Lawrence, Things that Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer, (eds) Alison Bartlett & Margaret Henderson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2011

‘The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the making of the Feminine’, Kay Lawrence, book review International Journal of Education through Art, Vol 7, No 2

2009

‘Listening when others talk back’, Kay Lawrence, ‘Migratory Practices’, Craft + Design Enquiry: Vol 1, No.1

2008

‘This everything water’ Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay for exhibition This everything Water Kay Lawrence, Aubrey Tigan & Butcher Joe Nangan, SASA Gallery, 2008 Adelaide Festival

2007

‘A Story is like a River: Weaving the Murray’, Kay Lawrence and Nici Cumpston in Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Australia, pp 234-245

2005

‘Weaving the Murray: Mapping Connection and Loss’, Kay Lawrence, Textile vol 3, Issue 2, Berg Publishers, UK, pp130 – 149

2004

‘Weaving: An encounter between the Ngarrindjeri, the British and the French’, Kay Lawrence, ‘Reinventing Textiles’ Vol 3, Postcolonialism and Creativity, Telos Art Publishing UK

2001

‘Home is where we start from’ Kay Lawrence and Lindsay Obermeyer, ‘Reinventing Textiles’ Vol 2, Gender and Identity, Telos Art Publishing UK

2000

‘Elsje van Keppel’ Kay Lawrence, The return of beauty, catalogue essay, Adelaide Festival exhibition, Jam Factory, March

1999

‘Losing and Finding, Loss and Reparation’, Fibrearts Summer, 1999

1998

‘Memory and Materiality’, Kay Lawrence, International Tapestry Journal, Vol 1 No 1 June 1998, pp20 23

1998

‘Twisted Tangled and Matted, Feltworks by Ing Flint’, Kay Lawrence, Textile Fibre Forum, p13

1998

'Memory and Materiality, Australian representation at the 9th Triennale of Tapestry, Poland' Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay, Origins and New perspectives, Lódz Textile Triennale, Lódz, Poland

1997

'Fragile Objects by Elsje King' Kay Lawrence, Object, 1997, No 2

1996

‘Teaching Textiles: reevaluating Textiles Conventions in the Art School’ Kay Lawrence, (ed) Neil CM Brown, Undergraduate Degree Courses In Tertiary Art and Design Education, 1996 ACUADS research seminar proceedings

1996

‘Second Look’ catalogue essay Kay Lawrence, Second Look, Prospect Gallery

1995

‘Marie Cook’, Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay and editor, Texts from the Edge Jam Factory Gallery, Adelaide

1995

'Gender and the practice of textiles' Kay Lawrence, Australian Art Education, Vol 18 no 2 1995

1994

'A Womans place is in the House' Kay Lawrence, contributor, Centenary of Womens Suffrage Community Tapestries, The South Australian Parliament

1989

‘Kay Lawrence, Maureen Hodge, Helen Garner, Narelle Jubellin’ ,Kay Lawrence, catalogue essay Makers Choice, Crafts Council of South Australia

1988

‘The Design’ Kay Lawrence, A Work of Many Hands, The Parliament House Embroidery, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra


selected bibliography

2017

Baguley, Margaret and Kerby, Martin C. The parliament house embroidery: A creative collaboration [online]. Australian Art Education, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2017: 261-274. Availability: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=317983045527904;res=IELHSS

2017

Jude Adams, Sera Waters, From There to Here, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia

2013

Pamille Berg, Interwoven: The Commissioned Art and Craft for Parliament House, The Commonwealth of Australia

2011

Dr Kirsty Darlaston, Kay Lawrence: Garlands of String, Match Studio, University of South Australia

2011

Joanne Soroka, Tapestry Weaving: Design and Technique, Crowood Press, 2011

2010

Christopher B. Daniels, John Hodgson, Barbara Hardy (eds) ‘This everything water’, Adelaide: Water of a City, Wakefield Press, SA

2007

Margaret Baguley ‘Partnership or Perish? A Study of Artistic Collaborations’ PhD Thesis, University of Tasmania, https://eprints.utas.edu.au/6174/

2002

Diana Wood Conroy, Kay Lawrence, Portfolio Collection No 9 Telos Art Publishing UK
2000 Cath Keneally, ‘Gender, identity and place in the textile works of Kay Lawrence’ Object 1/00

2000

Beth Hatton, ‘A Weaving Life’ Textile Fibre Forum, no 58

1999

Ruth MacDougall, Close Ties: Kay Lawrence & Marcel Marois, University of Queensland Art Museum

1997

Noris Ioannou, Masters of their Craft, Craftsmans Press, 1997

1995

Sue Rowley, Crossing Borders Australian Contemporary Textile Art, University of Wollongong

1994

Diana Wood Conroy, Texts from the Edge, Tapestry & Identity, JamFactory Adelaide

1992

Diana Wood Conroy ‘Context & Images, Kay Lawrence, Tapestry "House/Self" considered as an artifact’ (ed) Bob Thompson, Forceps of Language

1992

Grace Cochrane, The Craft Movement in Australia, Uni NSW Press

1989

Noris Ioannou, The Culture Brokers, towards a Redefinition of Australian Contemporary Craft, State Publishing, S.A.

1988

Shirley Cameron Wilson (ed) Alison M. Dolling From Shadow into Light. South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation

1988

World Tapestry Today catalogue, American Tapestry Alliance,

1988

Anne Brennan, ‘Kay Lawrence, A Public Commission Case Study’, Broadsheet, Contemporary Art Centre

1988

Desmond MacAulay, Spirit and Places, Artworks on Commonwealth Properties in Australia and Overseas, published by Australian Council and Australian Construction Services

1988

Kathie Muir, Two Thousand Bobbins; Community Tapestry in Australia, exhibition catalogue, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust,

1984

Peter Ward ‘Our Story – Embroidered’, interview with Kay Lawrence, The Weekend Australian, August, 1984

1984

Lynn Collins, ‘Order & Structure, an interview with Kay Lawrence’, S.A. Crafts

1983

Diana Conroy, ‘Kay Lawrence and Polly Hope’, Craft NSW, February, 1983

1982

Garry Benson, ‘Kay Lawrence’, Craft Australia, autumn

1981

Peter Ward, ‘Art’, The Australian, June