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Stitch with Sappho: Community Textile Installation by Juliet D Collins

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Stitch with Sappho: Community Textile Installation by Juliet D Collins

4 Sep 2026 – 10 Oct 2026


Venue: Parkdale (G3 Gallery at Shirley Burke Theatre)

This exhibition presents a large-scale collaborative textile installation created by artist Juliet D Collins and participants in her Stitch with Sappho workshops during 2026. Through stitched text, layered fabrics and thread, and mixed media elements, the work responds to surviving fragments of Sappho’s poetry.

Inspired by the poet’s fragmented legacy the work explores queer and feminist themes reflecting on what survives and what is lost. Combining personal reflection with collective making, the installation becomes a living portrait of Sappho not as a fixed historical figure, but as a presence that remains relevant today.

Image credit: works in progress by Juliet D Collins, 2026. Photographer: Gianna Rizzo.

Gallery Details

Kingston Arts Centre 
G1 & G2 Galleries, Lightboxes, Skybridge
979-985 Nepean Hwy
Moorabbin VIC 3189

Shirley Burke Theatre
G3 Gallery
64 Parkers Rd
Parkdale, VIC 3195

T: (03) 9556 4440
W: www.kingstonarts.com.au

OPENING HOURS

Indoor galleries: Wednesday to Saturday, 11am-4pm
Lightboxes: 24/7
Skybridge: nightly from sunset to sunrise 

Please note our galleries are closed on all Victorian public holidays and in between exhibitions.

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Kingston Arts Centre 
G1 & G2 Galleries, Lightboxes, Skybridge

Shirley Burke Theatre
G3 Gallery

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