EXTRA PADDING

Andriana Carney, Emma Louise Hayman, Fiona Waters, Karena Keys, Lois Waters, Margaret Goninon, Merryn Lloyd, Olivia Arnold, Owen Lewis, Phoebe Beard, Ruby Hoppen

2 May - 24 May 2026, Platform
Exhibition opening: Saturday 2 May 2026, 2pm

What would happen if artists trained in fine art and working across performance, printmaking, object-making, ceramics and more, came together to explore textiles as a shared, unfamiliar ground? What might emerge through collaboration with a quilting guild, where quilts become sites of community, care and exchange, and the gallery becomes a safe space to work outside traditional fine art hierarchies?

Extra Padding will be the third iteration of a rolling collaborative project centred on exploratory textile art. We prioritise community, accessibility and irreverent joy.

Photography by Fiona Little