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designer— about margaret ainscow
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Margaret Ainscow is a professional contemporary textile artist who works in mixed media, installations, public art and contemporary fashion. Margaret’s work involves the layering of organza with stitched text to convey written messages.
Currently based in Denmark, Western Australia, Margaret has travelled and worked extensively both nationally and internationally. She holds a postgraduate diploma from the Faculty of Art and Design at RMIT University as well as a Bachelor of Education from La Trobe University.
She has lectured at both Curtin University and Edith Cowan University in Perth and was Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Textiles Studio at the University of Tasmania.
Margaret has exhibited her work at exhibits and galleries in countries as diverse as Poland, Thailand, Japan, the USA and Indonesia. The recipient of many prestigious grants and awards over the past twenty years, Margaret has also been commissioned to produce many public artworks around Australia.
She is an accomplished exhibition curator and has her works displayed in a number of permanent collections at sites such as the Ararat Art Gallery in Victoria, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Tamworth Art Gallery in NSW.
Her current works and ideas are concerned with exploring three-dimensional space and the notion of layered texts to introduce more complex ideas and comments.
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designer— curriculum vitae
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