Exhibition countdown: 2 days to go! Alison Withers of Warrnambool, Victoria has two works in the Australia Wide Six. This is Remember the River. For years Alison has looked to the landscape in her part of the world as a means of enriching her life – it gives her an enormous sense of peace and reaffirms her sense of place. It is suggestions of these places that are the … [Read more...] about AW6 Preview: Alison Withers
Australia Wide Six
AW6 Preview: Deborah Weir
Exhibition Countdown: 3 days to go! Today's featured work from the Australia Wide Six exhibition is Pond Algae by Deborah Weir of Palos Verdes, California, USA. Deborah is a mixed media artist and curator who primarily uses textiles in her work. Though contemporary in every sense, the work references traditional “women’s work,” slowly built up, mostly by hand, with a … [Read more...] about AW6 Preview: Deborah Weir
AW6 Preview: Margaret Wallace
Exhibition Countdown: 4 days to go! Today's work from Australia Wide Six is Evans Hill Tathra 18:03:18 byMargaret Wallace of Bega, NSW. A two week course in freehand machine embroidery at USQ, Toowoomba, in 2001 with the renowned Ken Smith, was the "light bulb" moment for Margaret, and she was "hooked". AW6 Preview is a series of daily blog posts from 29 July to 31 … [Read more...] about AW6 Preview: Margaret Wallace
AW6 Preview: Carolyn Sullivan
Exhibition countdown: 5 days to go! Today ‘s preview from the Australia Wide Six exhibition is In the Gorge 1 by Carolyn Sullivan. Carolyn lives near Bundanoon, a rural township two hours out of Sydney, on five acres of flat, plateau country surrounded by eucalypt and deciduous trees in a park like site. Its cool climate, many gardens, closeness to the escarpment and … [Read more...] about AW6 Preview: Carolyn Sullivan
AW6 Preview: Jane Stone
Exhibition Countdown: 6 days to go! Today's preview from the Australia Wide Six exhibition is Garden of the Everlastings 1 by Jane Stone of Como, Western Australia. Slow textile techniques, in Jane’s art practise, have become a form of meditation and an artistic language. She uses a series of drawn stitch lines, and a limited colour palette of embroidery thread. The stitch … [Read more...] about AW6 Preview: Jane Stone