FOREST BREEZE
© Linda Balding
Price: Sold
Skinners Creek through Ancient Eyes
© Kassa Bird
Price: 350
Statement: Skinners Creek runs through my property and I like to imagine how Indigenous Australians would have represented the creek meandering through the white cedar forest in ancient times.
Photographer:Allan Bass
FLORA Canopy
Anna Brown
Price: NFS
FLORA Bush Blooms
Anna Brown
Price: NFS
STURT'S STONES
June Brown
Price: A$450
Statement: Inspiration came from a trip across Sturt’s Stony Desert which is north-east of Innamincka in South Australia. The desert appeared to be totally made up of stones-for as far as the eye could see - brown, red , rounded stones - stone after stone!
Photographer: Cynthia Brown
DROP INS
© Marjorie Coleman
Price: NFS
Photographer: Toby Batrovic
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FASHION BABES
© 2014 Marjorie Coleman
Price: NFS
Photographer: Toby Batrovic
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ABSTRACTED
©2014 Cathy Jack Coupland
Price: SOLD$400
Photographer: Chris Selley
OCHRE STONES
©2014 Dianne Firth
Price: SOLD A$400
Statement:Inspiration came from river worn yellow ochre stones left high and dry in a river bed.
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski
RICH EMPTINESS
©2014 Helen Gray
Price: A$400
Statement:The rich emptiness of a small windswept, charred, fenced area at Wybalenna on Flinders Island commemorating the approximately 100 displaced Tasmanian aborigines who are buried there in unmarked graves was the inspiration for this stitched drawing.
LOTUS#7
©2014 Suzanne Gummow
Price: A$350
Statement: With the emergence of the sun, life is born. As a bearer of creation, the lotus flower holds a special place in our lives. It symbolizes not only creation, but the timeless and continual process of birth and rebirth. At night, the lotus flower sleeps. At sunrise, with the waking of the sun, the lotus flower emerges to life.
ADVANCE AUSTRALIA UNFAIR
©2014 Julie Haddrick
Price: A$480
Statement: “For those who've come across the seas, we've boundless plains to share. With courage let us all combine to advance Australia fair “. Feathers once useful to the bird float at the mercy of the winds. Refugees, from dislocated pasts, flee in boats on random shifting tides, Seeking freedom like a feather in the breeze.
EDICARA V
©2014 Alvena Hall
Price: A$450
Statement: The famous but elusive fossils, including recent finds, from the dramatic desert mountains of the Flinders Ranges and the near-by Ediacara Hills are the inspiration for the quilts. The fragility of very early sea-life, preserved on the under-side of ripple-embossed rock, contrasts with today's harsh desert landscape.
NIGHT FLIGHT
©2014 Julie Harding
Price: NFS
Statement: The night lights of Goulburn as seen from my airplane while flying back from AQC 2014.
MICHELLIA 2
©2014 Linden Lancaster
Price: A$400 SOLD
Statement: A Michellia tree grows in my backyard struggling against the summer heat and winter frosts. Despite this, it manages to produce large creamy flowers every year. In this piece I wanted to contrast the waxiness of these flowers against the transparency of the jug.
ANIGOZANTHOS 3
©2014 Susan Mathews
Price: A$475
Statement: I delight in the profusion of kangaroo paws and other native plants in my garden and this has lead to many photographs, sketches, printing blocks and an ongoing series of art quilts.
INDIA 2013
©2014 Alison Muir
Price: NFS
Statement: fabulous Indian indigo entices Australian eucalyptus.
Photographer: Andy Brown
RIP CURL
©2014 Alison Muir
Price: A$300
Statement: : undercurrents invade the calm!
Photographer: Alison Muir
WINTER'S END
©2014 Pamela Munday
Price: A$200
Statement: Winter has come to an end. The skies are brighter, the days are longer and the snow is turning to rain.
Photographer: Graham Kruse
SUNBURNT TEXTURES 3
©2014 Alison Schwabe
Price: A$500
Statement: The cliché Australian landscape is depicted as mostly red coloured, vast and empty.
Photographer: Eduard Baldizan
SUNBURNT TEXTURES 4
©2014 Alison Schwabe
Price: A$500
Statement: The word ‘sunburnt’ is a key descriptor of much of our continent nation’s landscape.
Photographer: Eduard Baldizan
CONFLICT
@2014 Sharron Shalekoff
Price: NFS
Statement: ‘Conflict: to come into collision, clash or be in opposition or at variance’. It’s virtually a part definition of what it means to be human. Fight or flight has always been our response to a perceived threat and there are now some fifty million people displaced on the planet.
NEPTUNE'S NECKLACE #2
©2014 Brenda Gael Smith
Price: A$395
Statement: I love exploring the rock pools at Copacabana. Who hasn't enjoyed the simple delight of popping a pod of Neptune's Necklace seaweed?!
GRASSLANDS
©2014 Carolyn Sullivan
Price: A$350
Statement: Inspiration came from a trip across Sturt’s Stony Desert which is north-east of Innamincka in South Australia. The desert appeared to be totally made up of stones-for as far as the eye could see - brown, red , rounded stones - stone after stone!
Photographer: Cynthia Brown
STREET RAGE
©2014 Kerryn Taylor
Price: A$450 SOLD
Statement:There is a societal perception that civility between people is crumbling and that it is manifested in increased outbursts of rage. Street art has developed as a form of societal commentary. My work is an amalgam of street art style with a concern about the level of rage within our society.
GUMNUTS
©2014 Lynette Weeks
Price: A$120
Statement: Nature offers surprises with colours of brilliant green and subtle aubergine. Gumnuts together – same tree, same day. These colours are audacious and understated in tandem. With the use of digital manipulation, the colours of the large gumnuts are echoed into a cohesive arrangement on silk fabric.
GYRE 6
©2014 Deborah Weir
Price: A$225
Statement:The gyre series focuses on the ever multiplying garbage patches in our oceans in which plastic trash swirls and entraps sea life and birds.
EBB & FLO
©2014 Judy Wilford
Price: A$1380
Statement: Tide ebbs, the sea retreats, mud patterns mirror waves, catfish rest in hidden pools, creatures emerge, all is still… The flow begins, channels fill, water floods flats and mangroves, released - catfish swim, feed, creatures of mud- submerge. Ebb and flow - the cycle returns. Full Moon- North Kimberley Coast.
FOREST
©2014 Choy-Lin Williams
Price: A$240
Statement: A green quilt.
INVITATIONAL
BUKHARA SOUVENIR
©2014 Judy Hooworth
Price: NFS
Statement: Memories of embroidered suzanis seen in the marketplaces in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
INVITATIONAL
PRESERVATION
©2014 Trish Little
Price: A$450
Statement: This waterbag has travelled thousands of kilometres, and I have saved it, worn, useless, but a tactile memory of eighteen years spent in the bush, just as one might save a precious scrap of fabric.
Photographer: Kerryn Taylor
INVITATIONAL
NUANCE
©2014 Wendy Lugg
Price: NFS
Statement: The bush most familiar to me is full of browns and greys, its quiet beauty inviting contemplation of subtle counterpoint, light and shade.
INVITATIONAL
Black Water #14
©2010 Judy Hooworth
Price: NFS
Statement: … patterns of light on water… reflections… the passing of time…
This quilt is part of the Black water series 2009-2012 that I made following the death of my husband. It was exhibited in Australia Wide Two in 2010.
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INVITATIONAL
WRONG SIDE
©2014 Glenys Mann
Price: NFS
Statement:My work is inspired by emotions of the environment, the world events and emotions of everyday life.
Photographer: Kerryn Taylor
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The featured artists are:
Kassa Bird (NSW)
Anna Brown (NSW)
June Brown (Vic)
Lucy Carroll (Qld)
Marjorie Coleman (WA)
Cathy Jack Coupland (NSW)
Ruth de Vos (WA)
Dianne Firth (ACT)
Suzanne Gummow (SA)
Julie Haddrick (SA)
Alvena Hall (SA)
Julie Harding (NSW)
Linden Lancaster (Vic)
Susan Mathews (Vic)
Alison Muir (NSW)
Pamela Munday (ACT)
Sharron Shalekoff (Vic)
Brenda Gael Smith (NSW)
Carolyn Sullivan (NSW)
Kerryn A Taylor (Vic)
Lynette Weeks (Vic)
Deborah Weir (USA)
Judy Wilford (NSW)
Choy-Lin Williams (NSW)
The selectors were Judy Hooworth, Wendy Lugg and Trish Little.
All AW4 works are 40x40cm. Photography by the artist unless otherwise indicated.
