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Australia Wide Seven

Australia Wide Seven is a juried exhibition showcasing the work of Ozquilt Network Members. The final venue on the exhibition tour is Manning Regional Art Gallery, 12 Macquarie Street, Taree,  NSW  from 25 August – 15 October 2022.

Lois Parish Evans - Future Fossil 1- Australia Wide Seven
Future Fossil 1
©2020 Lois Parish Evans
Tauranga, NEW ZEALAND

Price: A$375SOLD

Statement: Future Fossil 1 is a statement about the potential loss of flora species if we continue to sacrifice the natural world for commercial gain. Even the gingko, one of our planet’s oldest trees, could succumb and in the future be unearthed as a fossil.

Helen Gray - Sea of Leaves - Australia Wide Seven
SEA OF LEAVES
©2020 Helen Gray
Mawson ACT

SOLD

Statement: During the summer fires we swam in a sea of black leaves.

Fiona Gavens - Ghost Blanket 5- Australia Wide Seven
GHOST BLANKET V
©2020 Fiona Gavens
Brunswick West, Victoria

Price: A$200

Statement: Woven blankets are deconstructed then reimagined as a quilt/lace.

Sharon Peoples - Helping in the Garden- Australia Wide Seven
HELPING IN THE GARDEN
©2020 Sharon Peoples
O'Connor, ACT

Price: A$500

Statement: This piece sits within a body of work, Hortus Conclusus (the Enclosed Garden), made during a period of intense isolated work in both the garden and the studio. Many birds visited the garden as soil was dug, overturned and mulched. In particular the willie wagtails would chatter, chucka! chucka! chucka! as I dealt with the cabbage moths which were intent on feeding on the broccoli. Lace-like structures are used to underwrite the fragility in balancing our environment.

Blue Box Fish - Brenda Wood - Australia Wide Seven
BLUE BOX FISH
©2020 Brenda Wood
Scarborough QLD

Price: A$380

Statement: Sealife is incredible. The patterns and textures are unlimited and provide plenty of diverse inspiration. Boxfish have the most amazing skeletal structure. Boxed in shape with only small holes in their frame, their armour is entirely unpalatable to most predators. Their patterns and markings amazing and uniquely blue.

Linda Steele - The Blues - Australia Wide Seven
THE BLUES
©2020 Linda Steele
Park Orchards, Victoria

Price: A$500

Statement:Some days nothing seems to go the way you expected or wanted. You just have the blues

Tara Glastonbury - Boxed In - Australia Wide Seven
ODE TO BANKSIA #6
©2020 Tara Glastonbury
Kensington, Victoria

Price: NFS

Statement: Boxed In started as three scraps leftover from a workshop. I don’t like to waste fabric so transformed them into a new piece. Boxed in during the Covid-19 pandemic, I chose not to be boxed in artistically either by that or by the constraints inherent in learning any technique.

Victoria Mansfield - Brainwaves - Australia Wide Seven
BRAINWAVES
© 2020 Victoria Mansfield
Alexandra Hills, Queensland

Price: A$350

Statement: This piece represents how brainwaves or ideas start in my head, moving from small and dark to larger and lighter and becoming entwined as they grow and develop. My favourites techniques are playing with colour gradation, tiny improv piecing, extreme trapunto and detailed quilting.

Zara Zannettino - Intriguing Irridescence
INTRIGUING IRIDESCENCE
© 2020 Zara Zannettino
Highbury, South Australia

Price: A$800

Statement: : Intriguing Iridescence: The luminous metallic sheen of the Nicobar Pigeon’s neck feathers has mysterious iridescent qualities, such that the rainbow hues and intensity seem to alter according to the viewer’s angle of observation. A mesmerising site, truly worthy of wonder.

Brenda Gael Smith - Acuity 6 In a Twinkle of an Eye - Australia Wide Seven
ACUITY #5:
IN A TWINKLE OF AN EYE
©2020 Brenda Gael Smith
Copacabana NSW

Price:$325

Statement: The world changed so quickly with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems like we can constantly recalibrating for the "new normal" to view life afresh.

Sue Reid - Vasarely Print - Australia Wide Seven
VASARELY PRINT
©2020 Sue Reid
Kyabram Victoria

Price: A$400

Statement: Every finger print is unique, just as the work of every great artist is unique.

Fiona Gavens - Dreaming of Rajasthan - Australia Wide Seven
DREAMING OF RAJASTHAN III
©2020 Fiona Gavens
Brunswick West, Victoria

Price: A$300

Linden Lancaster - Babblers on the Lawn - Australia Wide Seven
BABBLERS ON THE LAWN
©2020 Linden Lancaster
Picola Victoria

Price: A$350

Statement: On a searing summer’s day these Grey-Crowned Babblers had a lovely time on my cool watered lawn.

Alison Charlton - A Birds Eye View Ganges Delta - Australia Wide Seven
BIRDS EYE VIEW:
GANGES DELTA
© 2020 Alison Charlton
Bridgeman Downs, Queensland


Price: NFS

Statement: I am intrigued by perspective and in particular aerial views. Bird’s Eye View - Ganges Delta is inspired by NASA thermal imaging of the Ganges River Delta.

Julie Haddrick - Migrate Red- Australia Wide Seven
MIGRATE RED
© 2020 Julie Haddrick
Adelaide, South Australia

Price: A$390

Statement: The piece I have created is based on flower drawings and photographs from my travels throughout the world mainly to exotic places in the East. My own large garden is a great inspiration for me; it is full of flowers and plants. The work is highly graphic is style.

Dianne Firth - Making a Point - Australia Wide Seven
MAKING A POINT
©2020 Dianne Firth
Turner ACT

Price: A$350

Statement: Different voices, all making a point, but seldom listening to each other or reaching agreement.

Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

Suzanne Gummow - Flowers Always 9 - Australia Wide Seven
FLOWERS ALWAYS #9
© 2020 Suzanne Gummow
West Croyden, South Australia

Price: A$350

Statement:“I must have flowers, always and always” – Claude Monet

Away from Home by Carolyn Sullivan
AWAY FROM HOME
©2020 Carolyn Sullivan
Bundanoon NSW

Price: NFS

Statement:Indian decorative arts are such an inspiration.

GATHERINGS 2
© 2020 Susan Mathews
Ocean Grove, Victoria

Price: SOLD

Statement: : One of a series of deisgns where I have gathered various sketches of Australian native plants from my numerous sketchbooks in order to use them in a new way.

Plankton 1 Drift by Alvena Hall
PLANKTON 1 DRIFT
©2020 Alvena Hall
West Lakes WA

Price: A$500

Statement: Represented here are some of the plankton species that drift in the oceanic currents, at the very foundation of life, largely responsible for the very oxygen we breathe..

Summer Sketch II by Judy Hooworth Australia Wide Seven
SUMMER SKETCH II
@2020 Judy Hooworth
Morisset NSW

Price: A$395

Statement: a summer like no other...

Summer Sketch III by Judy Hooworth Australia Wide Seven
SUMMER SKETCH III
@2020 Judy Hooworth
Morisset NSW

Price: A$395  SOLD

Statement: at last... a little bit of green around the pond...

TREK
© 2020 Alison Withers
Warnambool VIC

Price: A$300

Statement: Follow the track through the ancient landscape to the base of Hollow Mountain. Rock hop and scramble past windblown caverns to reach the top and take in the magnificent views across the vast Wimmera Plains.

Double Denim by Beth & Trevor Reid Australia Wide Seven
DOUBLE DENIM
© 2020 Beth & Trevor Reid
Gowrie ACT

Price: A$350

The subtle velvety tones of faded denim give a painterly effect.

Regeneration 2 by Alison Schwabe
REGENERATION 2
©2020 Alison Schwabe
Montevideo, Uruguay

Price: A$850

Statement: Much native Australian vegetation shows signs of new growth on the black and grey ash covered landscape within mere days or weeks of a devastating bushfire. Damaged human lives though, take much longer to heal and show signs of the hope and courage needed to move forward in Life.

Summer Inferno by Sandra Champion Australia Wide Seven
SUMMER INFERNO #2
© 2020 Sandra Champion
Battery Point, TAS

SOLD

Statement: The bushfires in Australia this summer were apocalyptic. The landscape was left blackened, everything gone, except for piles of rubble and corrugated iron where homes once stood.

Apple Isle by Lynn Hargreaves Australia Wide Seven
ABSTRACTED LANDSCAPES:
APPLE ISLE
©2020 Lynne Hargreaves
Legana, TAS


Price: NFS

Statement: : I’m attracted to the pattern in nature. I’m currently working with the linear qualities of the landscape. Simplifying and abstracting elements and exploring drawing with stitch and surface texturing.

Disconntected by Marie Mitchell Australia Wide Seven
DISCONNECTED HABITAT
©2020 Marie Mitchell
Perth, Western Australia

Price: A$450

Statement: With memories of the horrendous ‘Black Summer’ habitat loss fresh in my mind, an aerial view of the Western wheatbelt prompted a new perspective on small patches of green below. While vital to the health of agriculture these critically endangered, fragmented and scattered ecological communities only received protection in 2015.

Bird Count - the Shearwater Migration by Judy Wilford
BIRD COUNT
THE SHEARWATER MIGRATION
©2020 Judy Wilford
Armidale, NSW


Price: A$2,250.00

Statement: The Streaked Shearwater migrates from Asia through the West Pacific to Northern and North Western Australia.

June Brown Stitches in Time
STITCHES IN TIME
©2020 June Brown
Milawa VIC

Price: A$600

Statement: During the 1980s we were encouraged to do very fine quilting stitches but now after 35 years attitudes and opportunities have changed. The “Go Slow” style of stitching produces large stitches which are ideal to demonstrate the changes in the world of quilting.

Photographer: Cynthia Brown

June Brown Freedom Australia Wide Seven
FREEDOM
©2020 June Brown
Milawa VIC

Price: A$500

Statement: Leaves are free to travel wherever they are blown. We have not been free to travel at all during the isolation of the Covid Virus Pandemic. After 8 weeks away from towns and shops - FREEDOM was forefront in my mind as I stitched this quilt.

Photographer: Cynthia Brown

Smoky Moon by Wilma Cawley Australia Wide Seven
SMOKY MOON
©2020 Wilma Cawley
Chisholm, ACT

Price: A$300

Statement: For a couple of weeks, during the summer bushfires, I would search for the Sun, instead I found a Smoky Moon

Burnt 1 by JulieAnne Rogers Australia Wide Seven
BURNT #1
©2020 Julie-Anne Rogers
Narara, NSW

Price: A$495

Statment: The 2019/20 bushfires in Australia affected us all. We all experienced the air pollution and fear. We lost lives, buildings, bushland, and countless animals. Nature relies on us to not let it happen again.

Coolbardie by Suzanne Lyle
COOLBARDIE
©2020 Suzanne Lyle
Ballarat, Victoria

Price: A$750

Blue Grass by Carolyn Sullvan
BLUE GRASS
©2020 Carolyn Sullivan
Bundanoon NSW

Price: SOLD

Statement: Grasses do such wonderful things - hold soil in place, feed stock, store nutrients, a place for many organisms, provide seeds for food and so much more. But best of all I love to see them rippling across the land in the wind and glimmering with sun and dew.

Wind by Dianne Firth Australia Wide Seven
BLOWN BY THE MIND
©2020 Dianne Firth
Canberra, ACT

Price: A$500


Statement: Drought, heat, parched earth, dehydrated leaves, and then comes the wind.

Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

Lost at Sea by Alysn Midgelow Marsden
LOST AT SEA
©2020
Alsyn Midgelow-Marsden
Matakana, NEW ZEALAND


Price: A$800

Statement: Alysn’s work references personal memories, a long connection to the seashore and the ocean with an equally long connection to fibres, textiles and stitch in textiles. The ‘Seam[i]stress’ series is filled with siren songs, soaring calls, spectral moans, shrill wails and rhythmic scratches which reach across the oceans; objects (natural and otherwise) washed up on the shores; all elements flowing freely, overlapping, echoing and retreating like waves on the coast.

LANDLINES-SHADOWS
©2020 Jill Rumble
Brookvale NSW

Price: A$300

Statement:Shadows on the land day and night, part of our landscape.

very dry Alison Muir Australia Wide Seve
VERY DRY
©2020 Alison Muir
Cremorne NSW

Price: SOLD

Statement: 2019 Australia is in the midst of the worst and longest drought since records were kept. The politicians says it’s not climate change. Dry stalks don’t feed cattle or sheep. When will our Indigenous people be respected to manage the land and water the ways they have for Millenia?

LAYOUT 1
©2020 Sue Cunningham
Stawell, Victoria

Price: A$150


Statement:Design inspiration: a 1908 textbook for dressing an old fashioned doll. It is a handbook for ‘little girl mothers’ to learn how to hand sew just as ‘neatly as possible’. Hand quilting in the fashion of basting.

AW7 Artists

The jurors Suzanne Gummow, Alysn Midgelow Marsden and Sharon Peoples selected 37 works by the following artists. Each work is 40x40cm. Many artworks are for sale: download the AW7 Catalogue.

June Brown
Wilma Cawley
Sandra Champion
Alison Charlton
Sue Cunningham
Dianne Firth
Fiona Gavens
Tara Glastonbury
Helen Gray
Julie Haddrick

Alvena Hall
Lynne Hargreaves
Judy Hooworth
Linden Lancaster
Suzanne Lyle
Victoria Mansfield
Susan Mathews
Marie Mitchell
Alison Muir
Lois Parish Evans
Beth and Trevor Reid

Sue Reid
Julie-Anne Rogers
Jill Rumble
Alison Schwabe
Brenda Gael Smith
Linda Steele
Carolyn Sullivan
Judy Wilford
Alison Withers
Brenda Wood
Zara Zannettino

Australia Wide Seven Exhibition Floor Talk (sorry for the poor audio)

Introduction by Dr Sam Bowker

Reflecting on their experiences of Australia’s vast and varied landscapes, the artists of the Ozquilt Network have showcased the diversity of practices across contemporary Australian quiltmaking. In this exhibition, their work consists of observations across the living world. These are translated into textiles that share rich and subtle engagements with our native flora and fauna, the changing climate, the urban, the interstellar and the microscopic. As fixed forms and fugitive glimpses, these small squares are windows across a changing world.

Though 2020 has been an extraordinary year, it is not specifically Australia’s landscape that is changing. Quiltmaking is constantly renewing itself as new voices find expression through layers of fabric held together by thread. The three selectors, Alison Gummow (SA), Sharon Peoples (ACT) and Alysn Midgelow-Marsden (New Zealand) selected 37 works from 83 entries. Combined with their own contributions, we see 40 small quilts before us.

In this exhibition, you will find residues and traces, or memories of objects and moments that no longer exist. You will find striking juxtapositions of brilliant colour and form, the familiar and the strange. Look for those quilters who have created forms you have not seen before, for those who have honed in as far as the eye can focus, and who have borrowed old words to tell new stories. Quilts are complex surfaces, shaped by the interplay of intriguing materials. More than images, they are sculptural – and in this exhibition’s format, they remind me of a disassembled book, each page contributed by a new author. How closely we look at each quilt determines the story we read from all.

For some, this is a story driven by drawing – as punctuated lines that hold layers together, or visual structures blending the abstract and figurative. For others, it is the image or the substance of the quilt itself, as one thing becomes another. Quilting is a slow and tactile process, it is an exploration of combinations. Ask yourself, what does it tell you about the artist? Does it generate the palpable tingle of wanting to make something yourself?

Quilting generates a thriving ecosystem of critical and inclusive practice that is simultaneously competitive and empowering. We see this clearly in Australia Wide Seven – a journey across the vibrant landscape of contemporary Australian quiltmaking.

About the Author

Dr Sam Bowker is the Senior Lecturer in Art History & Visual Culture at Charles Sturt University, based in Wagga Wagga. He lectures across contemporary Australian and Islamic art and design, and his research builds upon the history of the Egyptian tentmakers and the art of khayamiya applique. Contemporary and colonial quilting informs his teaching and research, such as his recent publications for The Journal of Modern Craft, The Australian Society for Asian Art (TASAA Review) and Craft + Design Inquiry.

Download: Introduction to Australia Wide Seven by Dr Sam Bowker.

Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020
Australia Wide Seven at Belconnen Arts Centre 2020
Australia Wide Seven @ Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT 2020

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Congratulations to OZQN member June Brown who is r Congratulations to OZQN member June Brown who is recognised in the Australia Day Honours for outstanding service to community and creative arts.

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Wangaratta Art Gallery wishes to congratulate June Brown who has today been recognised in the Australia Day Honours for outstanding service to community.

June has been awarded an Order of Australia (OAM) Medal, for service to the Creative Arts. June has made an exceptional lifetime commitment to the quilting and textile craft and art forms at a local and national level. Her practice and contributions have raised the profile of these art forms, forged new techniques and simultaneously activated and enriched communities and organisations in the sector. She has cultivated the textile art practice and medium, and advanced quilting as an art form in Australia.

Importantly, June has collected women's stories, recorded women’s history, improved women’s wellbeing, and shared the stories of Australian Culture, landscapes, heritage and identity.

June has donated countless volunteer hours to projects, festivals, committees, and the service of Wangaratta Art Gallery. In recent years, June has shifter her support to Philanthropic funding both through her personal funds and her family’s Foundation ‘Kyamba’. Such a long-term, selfless and passionate contribution with substantial impacts on community wellbeing, cultural growth and enrichment, deserves recognition. 

Congratulations June, the Wangaratta Community celebrates your achievement 👏🏻⭐️🏅

Image: June Brown OAM, January 2023
Image: @Beechworth photographers @erindavis.hartwig 

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There aren’t a lot of opportunities to have your There aren’t a lot of opportunities to have your art quilt hanging alongside your peers in a gallery setting in Australia, but #artquiltaustralia2023 is one such opportunity.

Expertly curated and beautifully lit, chosen works are showcased at their best.

Details for this juried exhibition, along with entry conditions, can be found at the Ozquilt Network website (link in bio).

Online entry opens 15 March 2023.

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Join Ozquilt Network to raise the profile of art q Join Ozquilt Network to raise the profile of art quilts in 2023! Join online. Link in profile.

The Ozquilt Network membership year starts on 1 January so now is an ideal time to optimise your membership for full benefits including:
▪️discounted entry fee to Art Quilt Australian 2023 including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize
▪️free entry into the new online members' exhibition “Memories of Childhood” that closes on 31 January 2023
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Featured artwork Blossom Bounty by @ruthdevosart currently touring in the Ozquilt Network members' exhibition "Australia Wide Eight".

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Memories of Childhood: We invite all Ozquilt Netwo Memories of Childhood: We invite all Ozquilt Network members to submit images of art quilts for an online exhibition of works that depict in abstract or pictorial form what the theme Memories of Childhood evokes for you. Entries close at 5pm on Friday 31 January Perth time.

Not a member? join today for the 2023 membership year and you will also be eligible to enter your artwork into the OZQN members gallery.

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From the OZQN Members’ Gallery
Since Your Days Began
By @ruthdevosart 

Dimensions: 80 x 80cm (H x W)
Statement: Since Your Days Began captures a fleeting moment through the slow, mindful process of stitching together lots of little pieces of fabric.

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Australia Wide Eight

Sue Broadway artwork
Artwork by Deborah Weir with details of the Australia Wide Eight exhibition
Detail image of The Door of No Return by Sue Reid depicting black men in chains in a corridor
Green gum leaves on light background with intensive stitching by Lois Parish Evans
Brown gum leaves printed on light coloured background
Summer Storm at Sunset by Jill Rumble
Kalbarri by Barbara Weeks
Purple and green Artwork by Lynne Hargreaves
Calistemon Cascade - two rows of red triangles on a turquoise background by Brenda Gael Smith

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