This publication accompanies a major UNSW Galleries exhibition drawing together practitioners who reimagine textiles and fibre art. It features curatorial texts by Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley, alongside newly commissioned writing from Sophia Cai, Katie Dyer, and Vikki McInnes.

The project takes its title from a 1957 essay by Bauhaus artist Anni Albers that sought to rethink the use of weaving through an architectural lens and interpret textiles as fundamentally structural and endlessly mutable. Artists reflect on the use of textiles to chart social and cultural change, responding to historical modes of production and representation, and underlying histories of domesticity and women's labour. Pliable Planes presents contemporary Australian textiles and fibre art in expansive and plural forms, altering perceptions of materials, form and function.