One of Wangaratta Art Gallery’s most popular exhibitions, Petite Miniature Textiles showcases innovative textile practice from across Australia, in small scale. The biennial exhibition brings together a diversity of artists and approaches which extend textile practice and inquiry.
Marking its 14th anniversary, the 2026 exhibition features 46 works by 34 artists and groups, selected by guest curator, artist Cara Johnson. Cara Johnson’s craft-based practice interrogates tensions and narratives connected to the ways land is treated and used. Through dedicated reworkings of a pared back palette of materials collected from her rural surrounds, she explores ideas around control, tending and tenderness.
Artists include:
Phoebe Beard, Claire Birbeck, John Brooks, Catherine Buddle, Benjamin Chevalier, Nicole Clift, Alana Clifton-Cunningham, Melanie Cobham, Fiona Currey-Billyard, Kasia Dudkiewicz, Anna Dunnill, Steph Everett, Belinda Farinaccia, Eli Giannini, Timothy Gresham, Michelle Hamill, Megan Kennedy, Sara Lindsay, Deborah McHugh, Juanita McLauchlan, Bhanu Mistry, Janette Murrungun, Third Object, Mary-Rose Riley, Miriam Sharp, Demelza Sherwood, Bec Smith, Lahni Thavarajah, Chop Thom, Cheryl Thornton, Lois Waters, Jessye Wdowin-McGregor, Erica Wells and Melinda Young.
Image: Steph Everett, sutures under wraps, 2026, glass beads, thread, 4 x 10 x 14cm.
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