Julie Ryder Textiles

Julie is well-known nationally and internationally for her textile art, hand-printed, embroidered and dyed fabrics, and her use of natural dyes and indigo. Her limited edition products for the home and to wear are all designed and printed in her Canberra Studio.

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Julie Ryder is a textile designer who has gained international recognition for her work. Originally trained in science, she retrained as a textile designer in 1990, and completed an MA in Visual Arts (Textiles) from the ANU in 2004. Julie has taught in tertiary institutions, community organizations and workshops for over 30 years. She specializes in screen-printed fabrics for accessories and the home and often combines techniques such as stitching; digital printing and new technologies to inform her work.

Julie has established a dye garden to grow and extract the pigments she uses in her work, and regularly runs workshops in natural dyeing and screenprinting from her studio.

Julie has been the recipient of many awards, grants, commissions and residencies. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, including the NGA, NGV, NMA, MAAS, AGSA, BRAG, CSIRO, ANBG, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Megalo Archives, RMIT Archives.