Thank you @artlink_magazine and Una Rey for these encouraging words and for reviewing the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award @wangarattaartgallery.
The least conventionally beautiful work is Finnish-Australian artist Helvi Apted’s creature-like Felt in Time (2024), suspended from the rafters by its grasping tendrils. Crafted from discarded textiles that look like grey freight blankets, the quasi-garment holds uncanny associations with all kinds of grief and institutional control, establishing its presence as the most vulnerable and daring work: for this there is often no prize.
https://www.artlink.com.au/articles/6130/wangaratta-contemporary-textile-award-2025/
