Timeless Textiles Gallery
Highlights
- Explore diverse fibre arts at Timeless Textiles Gallery, a national hub for creativity in Newcastle.
- Engage with artisans through artist talks and networking events, fostering connections in the fibre arts community.
- Discover unique exhibitions featuring local, national, and international artists, showcasing the vibrancy of fibre art.
- Visit the gallery shop for collectable pieces, supporting artists while enhancing your own creative journey.
Timeless Textiles Gallery has a growing reputation as a key national centre for fibre arts and artisans.
Based in the beautiful Hunter region of New South Wales, Timeless Textiles has strong national and international links, and facilitates creative exchanges within Australia and around the world.
Through the Timeless Textiles gallery, their shop, workshop programs and projects, they nurture the creative development of artists and artisans, building audiences and promoting the collectibility of fibre arts.
Their gallery program explores and presents the possibilities of all forms of fibre art.
Each year, the gallery hosts four local, four national and four international exhibitions.
Their engaging program of exhibitions and events includes artist talks and networking opportunities with artisans, curators, collectors and collaborators.
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Accreditations
- National Trust
Features
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
Physical – High support needs
Caters for people with high support needs who travel with a support person.