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Linden Lancaster is an artist who lives on a farm, near the edge of the Barmah forest, in Northern Victoria. Linden is inspired by emotive ideas, colour and observing the environment around her. Her past work is mainly pictorial using many different themes and techniques. She is currently refining her processes, in an attempt to make her work more loose and impressionistic in … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Linden Lancaster

Anna Brown works from her home studio in the Great Lakes area of NSW. Her main source of inspiration is from her immediate environment, especially the local bushland and lake. Local flora is usually the starting point for creating most of her textile pieces. Anna loves designing and making contemporary art quilts, while still incorporating traditional techniques. This is FLORA … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Anna Brown

Daena Schofield is a disabled quilt artist based in Rolleston, New Zealand and has spent the last few years finding her voice and working out how to use it. She spends much of her time day or night in her studio working on various fabric art projects. Recently Daena has started to create a following with her “talking points” series featuring silhouettes, starting with a piece … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Daena Schofield

Sandra Champion of Battery Point, Tasmania has worked in the medium of paper textile for many years. She uses paper to discover ways in which it can be deconstructed to create colour, texture and depth in her paper textiles. She often use rusted papers with the expectation that each piece will change over time as the more fragile pieces deconstruct and the nature of the piece … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Sandra Champion

Lisa Walton from Sydney, Australia has been awarded many prizes for her quilts including major International and Australian Quilt shows. Lisa teaches Internationally and was awarded the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for Quilting Teachers by the International Quilt Association Houston USA. Desert Lines (40 x40cm) is made with layered hand made woollen felt, painted with … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Lisa Walton

Dianne Firth is an artist, landscape architect and academic in Canberra. Using a process of abstraction, she likes to manipulate light, line, colour and texture to create moods, capture the essence of her subject or idea, and evoke visual and emotional responses.  Evening (40x40cm), her work in Australia Wide Nine, uses torn strips of commercial cotton that are layered and … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Dianne Firth

Linda Steele of Park Orchards, Victoria started designing her own quilts over 20 years ago. In 2018 she started making abstract, contemporary quilts and she finds that abstract design is an ideal way of exploring emotions. She also enjoys using colour and says that using plain fabric allows the quilting to shine. Tropicana (40 x40cm) is inspired by a visit to a bird … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Linda Steele

Sue Reid lives in Kyabram, Victoria. Her work is driven by pattern and colour, especially all shades of orange. As she observes in And the Wheels Go Round #4, time waits for no one. … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Sue Reid

Configuration by Alison Withers of Warrnambool, Victoria is made from cotton fabric, paint, polyester and paper thread. The work features : appliqué, mono printing, machine and hand stitch. … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Alison Withers

Judy Hooworth’s main body of work is influenced and inspired by Dora Creek and the surrounding Lake Macquarie area near her home.  Her work encompasses drawing, mono printing, painting, and discharge techniques and is extensively stitched and quilted. Judy has maintained a studio practice for over thirty-five years, and has been involved in quilt textiles as a teacher, … [Read more...] about AW9 Preview: Judy Hooworth