Maggie Baxter
Maggie’s textile work is tightly entwined with the connection she has had with India since her first visit in 1990. Her fist solo exhibition in New Delhi at the Visual Arts Gallery won her the award for the Best Design and Craft Show 2004. Her pieces employ weaving, block-printing and embroidery to create work that can satisfy both two and three dimensional forms. Within her use of textiles, she fuses the overt maximalism of the cultures she has encountered with the fragile minimalism of her own influences; Agnes Martin, Eva Hesse and Cy Twombly. In developing her style, she drew on the origami like construction of the Indian trouser, before creating a haphazard mode of design that embraces free movement and serendipitous creation.
Selected Works
Open Up, 2010.
- Open Up
- Photo by Greg Woodward
- Photo copyright of WA Museum
Scribble Wrap, 2007.
- Scribble Wrap
- Photo by Penny Lane
- Model: Juliana Nuic @ Viviens Model Management. Image copyright of WA Museum
Artists
Media
Accessories + objects of adornment
Hats, Belts, Bags + objects of adornment
Jewellery
Textiles
Beyond Garment is presented by the Western Australian Museum and
Perth Fashion Festival with support from the Department of Culture and the Arts
