Kasia Töns is a textile artist working and living on Peramangk Country (Adelaide Hills). Hand embroidery and mask making are central to Töns’ practice, which sits at the intersection of art, fashion, and craft. Her process is slow and intuitive, colourful, and expressive. Töns studied textile design studies at RMIT. The labour and time invested in creating Töns’ work acts as an antidote to the fast pace of the modern world and the addictive seeking of instant gratification through digital means. Recurring thematic interests include social impacts of digital technology use, the Anthropocene, and interpersonal/interspecies relationship dynamics. The artist says of this artwork: “Using an ex-house tent as a base, this work was my first attempt at making embroidery a more physical experience so it could match my feelings. Using larger stitches and threads I made this work outside in the Flinders Ranges and Lenswood. It is about what we do with our thoughts and bodies beyond the basic functions to keep us alive.” Töns exhibited her 2024 solo exhibition Panoply at Ararat Gallery TAMA, which explored how sculptural textiles can support mental well-being in emergency evacuation situations. A key work from that exhibition, Panoply II, was subsequently included in Art Gallery of South Australia’s major textile-focussed exhibition Radical Textiles, November 2024 – March 2025. Kasia Töns is represented by MARS Gallery.

Illustrated book with red cover. On the front cover at the top is a black oval with white print [logo of Oxford medical publications], underneath is a white stripe, then the title [white print]. At the base is the author [black print]non-fictionA foundational textbook designed for nurses to understand how the human body maintains a consistent iternal environment or homeostasisnursing-study and teaching, human physiology, homeostasis

Illustrated book with red cover. On the front cover at the top is a black oval with white print [logo of Oxford medical publications], underneath is a white stripe, then the title [white print]. At the base is the author [black print]non-fictionA foundational textbook designed for nurses to understand how the human body maintains a consistent iternal environment or homeostasisnursing-study and teaching, human physiology, homeostasis

Educational teaching chart used at the Northern District School of Nursing, Rowan Street, Bendigo. The Northern District School of Nursing opened in 1950 in to address the issues around nurse recruitment, training and education that had previously been hospital based. The residential school was to provide theoretical and in-house education and practical training over three years. The students would also receive practical hands-on training in the wards of associated hospitals. The Northern District School of Nursing operated from Lister House, Rowan Street, Bendigo. It was the first independent school of nursing in Victoria and continued until it closed in 1989 The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are the two main divisions of the autonomic nervous system, and they generally act in opposition to each other to maintain homeostasis. The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is responsible for the "fight-or-flight" response, preparing the body for action, while the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) is responsible for the "rest-and-digest" response, promoting relaxation and recovery. See French artist Paul Sougy. https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/11/29/paul-sougy/ Coloured educational Schematic chart of the Sympathetic and Para-Sympathetic Nervous systems. Black paper with coloured lines and wooden header and footer. Written on lower Right - P. d'apre R. Collin.1947. Written on a white label in the lower middle - Supplied by Adam, Rouilly & Co LTD. Human Osteology Anatomy, Shropshire House, 179 Tottenham Court Road, London, W.1. Telephone Museum 2703. Written on the rear - PRINTED IN FRANCEeducation chart, nurse training, lister house, northern district school of nursing, the sympathetic nervous system, paul sougy