Fascination, Ōtepoti Dunedin

CTANZ Symposium 2025 

RAU researchers Dan Collings, Rachelle Moore, and Arielle Walker presented papers at the 2025 CTANZ Symposium: Fascination, in Ōtepoti this May.  

Dan shared trompe-l’oeil techniques within digital knit textiles as a means of challenging Western gender associations. Rachelle discussed her grandmother Marj Moore’s private museum collection, and the narratives embedded within the garments and textiles held by the family since the early 1900s. Arielle shared insights into how her practice combines textile traditions from her Nana’s lace-making (and other textile samplers) with fibre techniques from throughout her ancestral lines.  

The symposium was a fantastic opportunity to connect with a network of makers and researchers around all things textile, enjoying a depth of presentations that ranged from the historical to contemporary across theory and practice.