Patrick Snelling, Textiles sensorial loop - 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial

As curator of the first Tamworth Textile Triennial, Patrick Snelling showcases the changing ideas and professional craftsmanship associated with contemporary textile practice in Australia. Snelling's curatorial direction included a focus on pattern, image-making, process and intermeshing. His aim is to promote textile making, working with hands and related tools while also promoting textiles as a collaborative, contemporary practice, which is influencing other disciplines. The sensorial loop references the idea that 'the end of which is connected to the beginning'. It references the expressive and physical loop of know-how, ideas and memory and processes.