Tapestry for Footscray Hospital reaches completion

Artists Maree Clark and Mitch Mahoney standing in front of Welcome to Country. Photograph by Astrid Mulder

In two ceremonies in June 2025, the 10-meter-wide tapestry Welcome to Country was cut off the looms after a yearlong weaving process. Designed by the combined effort of Maree Clark and her nephew Mitch Mahoney, the tapestry was woven in two halves on the Australian Tapestry Workshop’s 5-metre-wide looms. This tapestry is to hang in the New Footscray Hospital, that is currently being built and was funded by the Tapestry Foundation of Australia, with co-funding partners the State Government of Victoria and the Australian Hotels Association. This is the second of the Premier’s Suite tapestries woven for Victorian Hospitals.