Redbase Art Gallery proudly presents the upcoming exhibition, Seamline: Narrative of Identity and Memory, a powerful showcase that explores textile arts as a medium of identity, memory, and intergenerational storytelling. Featuring contemporary works by female artists from across Asia and Australia — Gao Rong, Faelarie, Sakinah Alatas, and Taerim Jeon — the exhibition reclaims embroidery, weaving, and sewing as forms of deeply personal and cultural expression.

Historically associated with feminine labor and domestic craft, textile practices have long served as vessels of inherited knowledge, passed from mother to daughter. In Seamline, these traditions are revitalized and reimagined — no longer confined to the decorative, but elevated as a potent visual language capable of holding trauma, resilience, and transformation.

From intimate narratives of motherhood to reflections on migration and national identity, each artist pushes the boundaries of textile art:

• Gao Rong’s Mailbox intricately reconstructs a weathered apartment mailbox — not as spectacle, but as a quiet meditation on the passage of time and the intimacy of handwritten letters. Hidden within is a replica of a letter from Rong’s mother — a private thread connecting artist to homeland and memory.
• Faelarie’s Menghias Luka (Adorning Wounds) uses crocheted textures to depict bruises, blood, and scars. Her abstracted forms confront the trauma carried by the female body, transforming pain into a visual chronicle of survival and regeneration.
• In Imagining What I Couldn’t See, Sakinah Alatas revisits the emotional landscape of childbirth and the shadows of maternal regret. Dripping yarn evokes the rawness of physical and emotional rupture, while the act of reconstruction becomes a form of healing and reclamation.
• Taerim (Claire) Jeon’s Roots traces a transnational journey between South Korea and Australia, using soil from both homelands to dye silk panels. Inspired by the Korean proverb, “We come from the Earth and return to it,” Jeon creates a living cartography of belonging, identity, and memory.

Through these evocative works, Seamline: Narrative of Identity and Memory asserts textile as a contemporary language — one that speaks to the body, the maternal, and the shared threads that stitch generations together.