kay lawrence selected writing
2019 | ‘Weaving the Way’ Kay Lawrence, exhibition review, Artlink 11 October 2011 |
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 | 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 |
