Skip to content

Wouna le Roux

Artist

  • Home
  • Work
  • Journal
  • Exhibitions
  • About
    • Biography
    • Statement
  • In the news
  • Contact
  • More kawandis

    More kawandis

    Blue After I finished my sister’s kawandi, I started gathering the fabric for my brother’s. The plan was to go visit in the July holidays which allowed a good amount of time to get the kawandi finished. I started by preparing the backing, by unpicking a flanallete queen size flat sheet and basting a layer…

    Wouna le Roux

    April 3, 2026
    textile art
    comtemporary quilt, kawandi, quilt, quilting, quilts, sewing, Siddi women, Siddi-style
  • Kawandi workshop & quilt show

    Kawandi workshop & quilt show

    New for me in 2025 was running a kawandi workshop over eight weeks through the winter months. I applied tor funding from the Palmerston North City Council’s Creative Communities Fund and was lucky to be awarded some funds to cover costs. I have met lovely ladies, some with whom I am still keeping in touch,…

    Wouna le Roux

    December 11, 2025
    exhibitions, explorations, textile art
    art, Celebration of Quilts, comtemporary quilt, Creative Communities Fund, exhibition, kawandi, kawandi quilt, PNCC, quilt, quilting, quilts, Rose City Quilters, sewing, Siddi-style, tikeli
  • Manawatū art awards

    Manawatū art awards

    While I spent the bulk of the first half of the year working towards the exhibition at Te Manawa, I was also in-between making work for art awards and competitions, even though I kind of decided to give it a break for 2025. I got caught up in the process of making for awards, and…

    Wouna le Roux

    November 7, 2025
    exhibitions, textile art
    art, art awards, exhibition, exhibitions, Manawatu art trail, manawatū art, Manawatū art awards, textile art
  • The story behind my work for Te Puna o te Atua

    The story behind my work for Te Puna o te Atua

    Some time in 2024 (I think it was in the middle of the year) I found out Te Awahou Collective had an upcoming exhibition at Te Manawa. This was a huge thing for me and I am thrilled to be part of a group that had the opportunity to exhibit there. I was mulling over…

    Wouna le Roux

    June 19, 2025
    textile art, exhibitions
    binding, enroot, exhibition, knitting, te manawa, te puna o te atua, teabag quilt, text stitching, textile art, weaving, wrapping
  • Te Manawa exhibition opening

    Te Manawa exhibition opening

    After finishing my Masters degree in 2024, I was flat out working on my piece for an exhibition by Te Awahou Collective, called Te Puna o Te Atua, at Te Manawa.  But let me backtrack a little.  Towards the end of 2023, I met Albert McCarthy through Gary Whiting who is a lecturer at UCOL.…

    Wouna le Roux

    May 27, 2025
    exhibitions, textile art
    contemporary-art, exhibition, te awahou collective, te manawa, te puna o te atua, textile art
1 2 3 4
Next Page

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Wouna le Roux
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Wouna le Roux
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar