Biography
Jacqueline Stojanović is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. She is an artist, weaver and educator with a foundation in historic and contemporary textile processes. The impetus of Jacqueline’s expanded practice is grafted to her belief in weaving as an ancient carrier of culture. She continues the tradition of hand weaving within a contemporary framework to memorialise the cultural practice of her parents respective homelands in former-Yugoslavia and Vietnam. Her works borrow the vocabulary of Abstraction and assemble a host of materials from the industrial to the domestic. Upholding weaving’s historic relationship to architecture and creation stories, Jacqueline’s work collages time scapes, memories, translations, built environments, and folk traditions, to navigate shifts in collective social and material values, past and present.
Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University and graduated with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015. Following her tertiary studies, she undertook research in the Caucasus, Middle East, and Eastern Europe to further learn histories of flat woven textile design. Jacqueline has worked in Australia, New Zealand and Europe presenting exhibitions, facilitating workshops, and undertaking creative residency appointments including The Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós, Iceland (2017); Lottozero in Prato, Italy, and the Fondazione Lisio in Florence, Italy, funded by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2022); and the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, Australia (2025). She was a finalist for the Darebin Art Prize at Bundoora Homestead (2021), the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2023), the Paul Guest Drawing Award (2024), and the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (2025). Her works are held in public and private collections including The Justin Art House Museum, The Australian National University, along with a series of works made in collaboration with her mentor John Nixon, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Jacqueline currently teaches Crafting Woven Textiles at RMIT University Fashion and Textiles School and Tapestry Workshops for new settlers at Foundation House in Dallas and TAMA Gallery in Ararat.
Citizen of Australia and the Republic of Serbia, b.1992
Represented by Haydens in Naarm Melbourne, Australia
Curriculum vitae
Jacqueline Stojanović is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. She is an artist, weaver and educator with a foundation in historic and contemporary textile processes. The impetus of Jacqueline’s expanded practice is grafted to her belief in weaving as an ancient carrier of culture. She continues the tradition of hand weaving within a contemporary framework to memorialise the cultural practice of her parents respective homelands in former-Yugoslavia and Vietnam. Her works borrow the vocabulary of Abstraction and assemble a host of materials from the industrial to the domestic. Upholding weaving’s historic relationship to architecture and creation stories, Jacqueline’s work collages time scapes, memories, translations, built environments, and folk traditions, to navigate shifts in collective social and material values, past and present.
Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University and graduated with Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2015. Following her tertiary studies, she undertook research in the Caucasus, Middle East, and Eastern Europe to further learn histories of flat woven textile design. Jacqueline has worked in Australia, New Zealand and Europe presenting exhibitions, facilitating workshops, and undertaking creative residency appointments including The Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós, Iceland (2017); Lottozero in Prato, Italy, and the Fondazione Lisio in Florence, Italy, funded by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust (2022); and the Australian Tapestry Workshop in Melbourne, Australia (2025). She was a finalist for the Darebin Art Prize at Bundoora Homestead (2021), the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2023), the Paul Guest Drawing Award (2024), and the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award (2025). Her works are held in public and private collections including The Justin Art House Museum, The Australian National University, along with a series of works made in collaboration with her mentor John Nixon, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Jacqueline currently teaches Crafting Woven Textiles at RMIT University Fashion and Textiles School and Tapestry Workshops for new settlers at Foundation House in Dallas and TAMA Gallery in Ararat.
Citizen of Australia and the Republic of Serbia, b.1992
Represented by Haydens in Naarm Melbourne, Australia
Curriculum vitae
TERTIARY EDUCATION
2015 Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, AU
2012-14 Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University, AU
2013 Fine Art Study Abroad Program, Prato IT
FURTHER EDUCATION
2022 Private tuition with Graziella Guidotti, Florence IT
Historical Techniques and Technologies, five-day course, Fondazione Lisio, Florence IT
2019 Stephan Ehrenhofer: Learning to Fly, one-day workshop, McClelland AU
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Jacqueline Stojanović: Units, Curated by Oscar Capezio, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra AU
AIR exhibition, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne AU
2024 Colour Ways, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2023 A net woven from my own hair, Curated by Felixe Laing, Chez Derriere at Parnell Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland NZ
Fabric Paintings, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2022 Ж!, Conners Conners Gallery, Fitzroy AU
2019 Fabric Concrete, Cube 37, Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston AU
Bread + Games, Gallery Boot, Christopher Boots, Melbourne AU
2018 Pirot Notes, The Workshop on Forster, Berlin DE
2015 Keeping In Touch, ACCA Startups, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne AU
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 Couch + Work Table with Kerrie Poliness, facilitated by Stephen Bram and Masato Takasaka, Melbourne AU
2022 a thread between with Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, ReadingRoom, Northcote AU
2019 Handheld Juncture, with Jordan Mitchell-Fletcher, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2020 Works made in collaboration with John Nixon as part of his exhibition Groups + Pairs 2016-2020, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne AU
2019 Works made in collaboration with John Nixon as part of his exhibition Paired Paintings, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney AU
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 6th Tamworth Textile Triennial, Curated by Blake Griffiths, Tamworth Regional Gallery and Museums, Tamworth AU
Concentric Influences of Sol LeWitt: Foundations, Pivots and Place, Curated by Irene Barberis, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne AU
New South Vol. 2, Curated by Victoria Wynne-Jones, Hazelhurst, Gymea AU
Chimera, Curated by Justin Andrews and Tim Cierpiszewski, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2025 Eye to eye: The Susan Taylor and Peter Jones Collection, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra AU
Thousands of luminous spheres, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2024 Fables & Folklore, Curated by Simone Haag, Craft Victoria, Melbourne AU
Weaving Matter: Material Experimentation, Curated by Liz Williamson, TAMA, Ararat AU
Let the Sun Shine in, Curated by Sara Lindsay, Five Walls Gallery, Footscray AU
2023 Post Structure, Curated by Kyle Jenkins and Justin Andrews, UniSQ Gallery, Toowoomba AU
Weaving Matter: Material and Context, Curated by Liz Williamson, Australian Design Centre, Sydney AU
2022 Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices, Curated by Karen Hall & Catherine Woolley, UNSW Galleries, Sydney AU
Text Tile, Curated by Madeline Simm, Anna Fiedler & Tia Ansell, Caves Gallery, Melbourne AU
Represented Artists, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
Material Culture, Curated by Marsha Golemac, NGV Melbourne Design Week 2022, At the Above, Melbourne AU
2021 Cooking with John, Curated by Amalia Lindo & Jacqueline Stojanović, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
Future Inheritance, Curated by Marsha Golemac, NGV Melbourne Design Week 2021, Truce, Melbourne AU
Of Colour and Light Biennial, Curated by Anna Prifti, West End Art Space, Melbourne AU
2019 Haus Werk: The Bauhaus in contemporary art, Curated by Jane O'Neill with Lisa Byrne & Simon Lawrie, McClelland, Langwarrin AU
Drawing Folio 3: Abstraction, Curated by Justin Andrews & John Nixon, Block Projects Gallery, Richmond AU
Pictures Made of Wool, Curated by John Nixon, Studio 14 Gertrude Contemporary, Preston AU
Love Letters to Feminisms, Curated by Margaret Mayhew & Nilmini Fernando, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray AU
2018 Unrepresented Artists, Curated by Hayden Stuart, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2017 High in Fibre, Bilskúr Galleri, Textílsetur, Blönduós IS
Analogue Photography, Curated by David Pujado, Bartcelona Gallery, Belgrade, RS
2016 Art Holds a High Place in My Life | Damp: Study of an artist at 21, Curated by Rosemary Forde, Gormenghast, Melbourne AU
Space Material, Curated by David Hugh Thomas, one-day exhibition, Education Room, MUMA, Melbourne AU
2015 An Afterthought, Curated by Rachel Schenberg, one-day exhibition, Good Time Studios for Artmeet ARI, Melbourne AU
Lovers in The Parking Lot, Curated by Hana Earles, one-day exhibition, Artmeet ARI, Melbourne AU
Debut XI, Curated by Xanthe Dobbie & Kali Michailidis, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne AU
CURATORIAL
2025 Spiral passages, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2024 SPHERE, artist book, co-edited by Justin Andrews & Jacqueline Stojanović, Melbourne AU
2021 Cooking with John, Curated by Amalia Lindo & Jacqueline Stojanović, Haydens, Brunswick East AU
2015 Feeling without touching, Bouverie Studios, Carlton AU
WORKSHOPS
2025 Weaving workshop for new settlers, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat AU
2024 Weaving workshop, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton AU
Weaving workshop, Lottozero, Prato IT
Weaving workshop for new settlers, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat AU
Weaving workshop, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Bendigo AU
2023 Weaving workshop, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle AU
2022 Weaving workshop, UNSW Galleries, Sydney AU
2020 Weaving workshop, McClelland, Langwarrin AU
2018 Weaving workshop, The Workshop on Forster, Berlin DE
COLLECTIONS
The Justin Art House Museum, The National Gallery of Victoria, Australian National University, and Private Collections in Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, and Serbia.
BIBLIOGRAPHY + TALKS + PRESS
2025 Artist talk, Units, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra AU
Artist talk, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne AU
2024 Artist talk, Weaving Matter: Material Experimentation, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, AU
Artist talk, Pliable Planes, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton AU
Making Connections, article published for Art Monthly Australasia, Winter 2024 issue 339
Artist talk, Lottozero, Prato IT
Interview, Colour Ways, Melbourne Art Fair for Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne AU
Artist talk, SPHERE book launch, NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair, Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine AU
Panel speaker, Pliable Planes, La Trobe Regional Gallery, Bendigo AU
2023 Panel speaker, Pliable Planes, Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle AU
Guest lecture, Monash Design Prato, Monash University Art Design & Archiecture, Caulfield AU
A net woven from my own hair, artist book created by Jacqueline Stojanović and Felixe Laing, published by Te Tuhi NZ
Panel speaker, Zestre: Șezătoare, moderated by Larisa Petcuț, Timișoara, RO
Interview, conducted by Mariagiulia DaRiva, Monash Prato Centre, IT
Ж!, self-published artist book, designed by Warren Taylor AU
2022 Damsko Srce: Heritage hanging by a thread, Garland Magazine
You Stir the Pot: Recipes for change, artist recipe anthology initiated by Victoria Manganiello USA
SPHERE, artist book curated by Justin Andrews & Kyle Jenkins AU
Panel speaker, Starting at Zero, UNSW Galleries, Sydney AU
Panel speaker, John Nixon: his art and influence, The Lyon Housemuseum, Kew AU
2019 Katie Paine, A Chorus That Spans Generations, A+A Online, Art & Australia Magazine, Melbourne AU
2015 Zoe Theodore, Keeping In Touch, ACCA Art Blog, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne AU
Jack Clarke, Inside Artmeet: An Artist Run Initiative, Interview for Timeout Magazine, Melbourne AU
2014 Maria Miranda, Artmeet: Open For Inspection, The ARI Experience Blog, Melbourne AU
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2025 Finalist, Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta AU
Artist in residence, Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne AU
2024 Finalist, Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo AU
2023 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo AU
2022 Artist in residence, Lottozero Textile Centre, Prato IT
Grantee, Ian Potter Cultural Trust
2021 Finalist, Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Bundoora AU
2017 Artist in residence, Textílsetur, Blönduós IS
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITY
2022-25 RMIT University Fashion and Textile Department, Brunswick AU, Course Coordinator and Lecturer, Crafting Woven Textiles
2022-25 Foundation House, Tapestry classes for new settlers, Dallas AU Teacher
2021-25 Estate of John Nixon, Briar Hill AU Studio Assistant
2016-20 John Nixon, Studio Assistant
2019-22 McClelland, Langwarrin AU Front of House Coordinator
2019 Martumili Artists, Newman AU Volunteer
2016-18 Bartcelona Gallery Belgrade RS Exhibit Writer
2017 Nagel Draxler Berlin DE, Internship
2017 Belgrade Photo Month RS, Catalogue Writer
2015-16 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne AU Public Programs Representative
2014-16 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne AU Invigilator