Julie Ryder designs, dyes and handprints fabrics for both homewares and fashion. Her studio is set amongst her dye garden, where she grows indigo and other natural dye plants to colour yarns and fabrics.
9 November | Saturday 10am - 4pm
10 November | Sunday 10am - 4pm
Entry to this Open Studio is free | No booking required
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Julie Ryder is a textile designer and artist who has gained international recognition for her work. Originally trained in science, she retrained as a textile designer in 1990, and completed an MA in Visual Arts (Textiles) from the ANU in 2004. Julie has established a dye garden to grow and extract the pigments she uses in her work, and regularly runs workshops in natural dyeing and screen printing from her studio.
She has taught in tertiary institutions, community organizations and workshops for over 30 years and has been the recipient of many awards, grants, commissions and residencies. Her work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, National Museum of Australia, MAAS, Art Gallery of South Australia, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery, CSIRO, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Megalo Archives, RMIT Archives.
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Wheelchair accessibility, eftpos, cash, toilet, off-street parking
Image Credit: Julie Ryder | Textiles, 2023 | Image courtesy of the artist