Three embroidered textile pieces with floral and geometric patterns in various colors, arranged overlapping on a flat surface.

Tapestry Weaving Inspired by Place, Memory and Heritage

Woven Narratives. Contemporary Craft.

Dimity Kidston is a Canberra-based contemporary tapestry artist whose practice explores memory, place and the narratives embedded within everyday life. With more than three decades of weaving experience, she creates richly textured handwoven tapestries that celebrate the enduring connection between people, landscape and the stories that shape us.

Dimity Kidston, wearing blue glasses, and a striped hoodie sitting at a table with colorful yarn and thread spools in the foreground, smiling at the camera, with a vibrant and colorful tapestry weaving hanging behind her.
Colorful embroidered circular piece with red roses, green leaves, and yellow accents on a dark blue background.
A wooden wine box with a woven tapestry on its front panel, featuring red, green, blue, and orange geometric patterns, and the word Capelvale printed on the side.
Large woven tapestry with colorful thread patterns of leaves and dots on a dark background.
Woven Tapestry with a floral pattern on a dark background.
Close-up of colorful textured handwoven tapestry textile with floral and abstract patterns.
An open vintage metal box with a colorful woven tapestry inside.
A colorful woven tapestry with jigsaw design, inspired by world textiles.
Close-up of a circular woven tapestry piece, woven for Banksia house at Radford College.
Close-up of a colorful, textured woven tapestry with abstract patterns in red, yellow, orange, white, blue, and green
A colourful woven tapestry featuring a pattern of Australian plants with green leaves, orange flowers, and small red dots on a dark background.
A colorful woven tapestry piece with various plant and floral patterns in green, yellow, beige, and black tones.
Tapestry weaving and embroidery of a beatle with orange, black, and yellow stripes, black wings, and legs, surrounded by green, red, and black patterns on a white fabric background.
Woven tapestry by Dimity Kidston
A colorful woven tapestry depicting a vase of flowers left on a doorstep.
Woven Tapestry artwork of an insect with colourful wings on a fabric background with green leaves and purple accents.
Close-up view of a colorful woven textile artwork featuring a geometric pattern with vibrant colors, including orange, yellow, green, and purple, with black outlining.
Dimity Kidston embroidered moth.
Dimity Kidston woven tapestry of seaweed, with three d additions
Dimity Kidston woven Tapestry for Radford College
A woven textile artwork featuring colorful floral and leaf patterns in shades of pink, green, yellow, red, blue, and beige.
Dimity Kidston embroidered moth.
Dimity Kidston woven Tapestry for Radford College
Dimity Kidston embroidered moth.
Dimity Kidston woven Tapestry for Radford College
Close-up of a wooden block with colorful woven textile attached to one side, displaying floral and leaf patterns in shades of pink, green, red, blue, black, and white.
A colorful hand-stitched tapestry featuring a smiling cartoon dog with green fur, black eyes, and a red tongue, set against a multicolored background of various abstract shapes.
Close-up of a wooden frame with a colorful woven textile inside, featuring a floral pattern with pink, red, blue, gray, and beige colors.
Dimity Kidston woven Tapestry for Radford College
Close-up of a wooden block with multicolored woven fabric attached to one side.
A wooden box with a colorful needlepoint embroidered panel featuring flowers and leaves, set against a plain background.
An open vintage metal tin box with a colorful embroidered design on the right side and a white lid with red lettering and a lion logo on the left side.
Dimity Kidston woven Tapestry for Radford College
Open metal box with colorful embroidery of a mountain landscape scene inside, and a separate metal lid with partially visible text and a logo.
An open vintage leather suitcase with a colorful woven fabric inside, against a plain white background.
A vintage tin container with a colorful embroidered fabric interior. The tin's lid has printed text describing cigars, including warnings against smoking during pregnancy.
A wooden rocking chair with a floral cushion placed on a colorful rug outside, on grassy ground with fallen leaves.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with intricate orange and purple leaf and floral patterns.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate,
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a blue and white floral design featuring large flowers, leaves, and smaller accent details.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a floral and wave pattern in red, blue, and white.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a light green interior, decorated with abstract red and blue patterns on a white background.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with cut-out floral and leaf patterns, featuring black flowers with intricate white designs, on a gray surface.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a black and white abstract leaf or plant pattern.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a decorative design of abstract gray lines and yellow oval shapes, set against a gray background.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved ceramic plate with a black abstract line design on a white background, placed on a gray surface.
Dimity Kidston sgraffito hand carved bowls with floral and geometric patterns.
Close-up of colorful yarns and wooden tapestry bobbin in a container.

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A television screen displays a menu for a streaming service with a colorful pixelated image of three animated characters, two women and one man, sitting in a winter landscape. The menu includes categories like Dramas, Crime, Thrillers, and Winter Warmers, with Winter Warmers highlighted.
Close-up of a colorful ball of 3 dimensional woven tapestry with a blurred outdoor background.
Close-up of Dimity Kidston weaving a colorful tapesrty on a loom, with her hand pulling threads through the woven textile.
A partially completed, colorful woven tapestry in a circular shape, with various patterns and floral designs, held on a loom with spools of green thread, scissors, and a crochet hook in the foreground.
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Close-up of multiple spools of yarn in shades of pink, orange, yellow, and purple.