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Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Resilience, a wool artwork by Carol Leitch of Umina Beach, NSW. Carol’s work explores the destructive and regenerative power of bushfires. Using fabric and fibre, she captures the textures of scorched earth, flickering embers, and nature’s resilience. Layering, stitching, and binding symbolize destruction and renewal, honouring … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Carol Leitch

Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Australian Vernacular by Alison Muir of Cremorne, NSW. Alison writes: Corrugated wrought iron was invented for roofing in England in1829. 1850 Gold Rush immigrants to Australia arrived with corrugated iron dwellings; Aboriginals used corrugated iron to replace indigenous bark. It continues a major role for farm buildings, … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Alison Muir

For Lois Parish Evans of Tauranga, New Zealand, Coastal Contours is a visual response to the sweeping vista of sea, sand and land, expressed through a personal lens of colours, shapes and patterns. See it in Art Quilt Australia 2025. View more of Lois's artwork at: Art Quilt Australia 2025, including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, is on exhibition at the Yarra … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Lois Parish Evans

Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Moonlit Arabesque by Beth and Trevor Reid of Canberra: a mat of silver foliage, patterns of scrolling and interlacing leaves shining in the moonlight. See more of Beth and Trevor's work in the Ozquilt Network Members Gallery. Art Quilt Australia 2025, including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, is on exhibition at the Yarra … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Beth & Trevor Reid

Art Quilt Australia is open to textile artists resident in Australia and New Zealand and Ozquilt Network members worldside. Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Nature Gives and Nature Takes by Norma Slabbert of Hamilton, New Zealand. Norma writes: Nature gives us trees and forests. Sometimes she takes it all away with fire or floods - leaving us with a bleak … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Norma Slabbert

Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Approaching Equinox Plundering Joy by Brenda Gael Smith of Copacabana NSW. Death beckoned on the horizon. It wouldn’t go away. As the days got shorter, the sunrises intensified. We embraced each other even stronger. Plundering joy. View more of Brendas artwork at: Art Quilt Australia 2025, including Expressions: The … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Brenda Gael Smith

Greg Somerville of Castlemaine, Victoria has two works featured in Art Quilt Australia 2025 : Everything Flows no.4 (detail-left) is entered in the wool quilt category and Homage to the Microbiota of this World (detail-right) is in the open category. Greg’s interests in physics, ecological theory, buddhist ideology and years of observation, have all contributed to an … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Greg Somerville

Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is Abundance by Linda Steele of Park Orchards, Victoria. Linda writes: Walking through the orchards in summer is a sensory overload, with the glorious scent and abundance of fruit. View more of Linda's artwork at: Art Quilt Australia 2025, including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, is on exhibition at the Yarra Ranges … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Linda Steele

Art Quilt Australia 2025 includes six artworks composed predominantly of wool that are eligible for Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, an acquisitive prize of The National Wool Museum of Geelong. Barbara Weeks of Geographe Bay, Western Australia works primarily with merino wool and fine silks, creating surface design through the wet felting process. Her wool artwork Woollybutt … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Barbara Weeks

Today's preview from Art Quilt Australia 2025 is The Fallen by Alison Withers of Warrnambool, Victoria. Alison writes: A rumbling in the craggy peaks is the first warning of an ancient weathered giant breaking free and crashing into to the valley below. A powerful reminder of the unpredictability of nature. The artwork combines appliqué and piecing with mono and block … [Read more...] about AQA 2025 Preview: Alison Withers