Normana Wight b. 1936

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  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Popular female weaver whose diverse practice includes portraits with flowers and combining tapestry with digital media.
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weaver, is a Queensland-based artist who was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to do a tapestry portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (with flowers). Completed in 2000, it immediately became one of the most popular works in the gallery. In 2001 she undertook a 3-month residency at the Victoria Tapestry Workshop to explore the potential of tapestry/digital media ( Imprint winter 2001).

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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Related stub people
  • Murdoch, Elisabeth (Dame) (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • Victoria Tapestry Workshop (associate of)
  • Central Street Gallery (associate of)
Related works
  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch (creator of)
Related collections
  • Monash University, Mebourne (collected in)
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle (collected in)
  • National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)