Dimity Kidston + Liv Kidston
Ceramics + Textiles
7 + 8 NOVEMBER 2026
Day + Time | Saturday + Sunday | 10am – 4pm
Location | 7 Lister Crescent, Ainslie ACT 2602
Access | EFTPOS | Refreshments
Dimity and Liv Kidston invite visitors into their shared working studio environment. View contemporary textile and ceramic works in progress and complete and gain insight into their professional practices. Liv Kidston will demonstrate aspects of her machine embroidery process, discussing scale, materials, and the development of soft sculptural forms. Dimity Kidston will showcase her tapestry weaving practice and a selection of ceramic works.
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Liv Kidston is an emerging contemporary textile artist based in Canberra. She recently completed Honours in Visual Arts (Textiles) at the ANU School of Art and Design, where her practice-led research explored embodiment, neurodivergence, and feminist self-portraiture through large-scale machine embroidered soft sculpture. Working with fabric, thread, and sculptural forms, Liv creates immersive, tactile works that challenge traditional boundaries between craft, sculpture and contemporary art. Her practice is grounded in lived experience, using scale, softness and materiality to communicate vulnerability, presence and bodily difference. Kidston’s work has been recognised through multiple awards and exhibitions, and she continues to develop an ambitious studio practice focused on contemporary textile installation and soft sculptural forms.
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Liv Kidston is an emerging contemporary textile artist based in Canberra. She recently completed Honours in Visual Arts (Textiles) at the ANU School of Art and Design, where her practice-led research explored embodiment, neurodivergence, and feminist self-portraiture through large-scale machine embroidered soft sculpture. Working with fabric, thread, and sculptural forms, Liv creates immersive, tactile works that challenge traditional boundaries between craft, sculpture and contemporary art. Her practice is grounded in lived experience, using scale, softness and materiality to communicate vulnerability, presence and bodily difference. Kidston’s work has been recognised through multiple awards and exhibitions, and she continues to develop an ambitious studio practice focused on contemporary textile installation and soft sculptural forms.
Images
Liv Kidston | Looping Limbs, 2025 | Fort Golden II, 2023 | Photos by 5 Foot Photography
Dimity Kidston | Huon, 2025 | Photo courtesy of artist
Dimity Kidston | After Dark, 2016 | Photo by Stuart Hay