Cheryl Thorton

  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Thornton is a tapestry artist. She was employed at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop in 1977. She has worked on over fifty different tapestries, including the monumental Jorn Utzon for the Sydney Opera House. Thornton regularly exhibits her own work in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of BHP and the Queensland Art Gallery.
Tags: weaver, tapestry weaver, textile artist

Cheryl Thornton completed studies in Art and Design in 1976 when her introduction to tapestry weaving began at a seminal workshop with acclaimed UK tapestry artist Archie Brennan. She was offered a position at the VTW in 1977. Thornton has worked on over fifty different tapestries, including the monumental Jorn Utzon for the Sydney Opera House. She has led many major commissions such as three of the Roger Kemp tapestries for the National Gallery of Victoria, the Melbourne Recital Centre tapestry based on a design by Bentinck Island artists and the recent tapestry designed by David Noonan. Thornton regularly exhibits her own work in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of BHP and the Queensland Art Gallery.

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Australian_Tapestry_Workshop
Date written:
2014
Last updated:
2014