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You are here: Home / Member Profiles & Gallery / Alison Muir, Cremorne, NSW

Alison Muir, Cremorne, NSW

Website: www.muirandmuir.com.au
Instagram: textile_expressions
E-mail: alison@muirandmuir.com.au

Originally trained as a commercial Interior Designer, Muir started using textiles to express issues of importance after visiting the Amish counties in 1982.

Accolades in the last 10 years include being juried into the SAQA@20 exhibition, a celebration of 20 years of Art Quilts in USA (2016) at National Quilt Museum and invitation to Judith Trager’s ’75 exhibition’ at Dairy Arts Centre Boulder Colorado in 2017

Exhibition highlights include Quilt National 2001, 2011 and 2019. Muir has been also been juried into all Art Quilt Australia and Australia Wide travelling exhibitions

Muir completed a research Master of Design (Hons) 2010 at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, using textiles as a communication tool, entitled Fathoming the Depths.

  • Alison Muir Franked

Fracked

Retail Price: AUD$1100
Dimensions: 83 x 89cm ( H x W)
Statement: While Covid19 has distracted the Australian population, State & Federal governments have approved gas fracking that will pollute our greatest water source: The Great Artesian Basin underground from Papua New Guinea to Adelaide South Australia.
Exhibitions: 2088 Artists of Mosman
Photographer: Andy Payne, Photographix

Feeding the Aquifer

Retail Price: AUD$1200
Dimensions: 159 x 198cm ( H x W)
Statement: Only recently have the 2 major rivers of the Eastern seaboard had sufficiently flow to actually join on their journey to the sea; the Murray and the Darling Rivers. With sufficient flow ground water is also being topped up and the aquifer will be fed; the Great Artesian Basin
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2021
Photographer: Andy Payne, Photographix

comfort

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 1 x 77cm ( H x W)
Statement: recycling 40 years of images and memories
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2021
Photographer: Andy Payne, Photographix

Shadow

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 30 x 30cm (12x12in) ( H x W)
Statement: Experimental Water

global warning

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 147 x 66cm ( H x W)
Statement: Australian politicians will not address ‘climate change’ even when scientists warn of global catastrophes.
The Reef is bleached again and the young scream to be heard.Maybe ‘global warning’ will get their attention but I am not hopeful!
Exhibitions: One Step Further 2021
Photographer: Andy Payne, Photographix

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Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhib Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhibition featuring the artwork of OZQN members. The exhibition is divided into four sections. Today’s post looks at memories of family members:
▪️ Jean Fair by Cheryl Lee
▪️ Grandma Chamberlain by Ronda Hazell @anakiequilter 
▪️ Stalingrad Dad by Heidi Drahota @heidi_drahota 
▪️ Memories of Mum from my Childhood by Shirley Drayton
▪️ Family Lines: Apron Strings by Brenda Gael Smith @brendagaelsmith 
▪️ memories: A Family Snapshot by Linda Balding
▪️ Reflections by Lisa Walton @lisawaltonartist 
▪️ this discovering 5 by Ruth de Vos @ruthdevosart 
▪️ First Day Fears by Linda Steele
@lindabsteele 

View the full virtual exhibition on the Ozquilt Network website. https://www.ozquiltnetwork.org.au/exhibitions/online-themed-exhibition/

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Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhib Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhibition featuring the artwork of OZQN members. The exhibition is divided into four sections. Today’s post looks at emotions:
▪️Gestation by @ileanaart37
◾️Unloved and Unwanted by @carol_textileart 
▪️Troubled Waters by @textile_expressions
▪️Sleeping Beauty by Lena Meszaros 

View the full virtual exhibition on the Ozquilt Network website.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES! Art Quilt Australia 2023 (includ CALL FOR ENTRIES! Art Quilt Australia 2023 (including Expressions:The Wool Quilt Prize) is open to artists resident in Australia and New Zealand and OZQN members wherever they live.

The online entry form opened today and 
closes on 2 June 2023 at 5pm (Perth time). 

$9000 in prize money.  All selected entries are automatically eligible for consideration for the $4000 OZQN Award of Excellence (non-acquisitive). Entries into the wool quilt category  are eligible for the $4000 Expressions:Wool Quilt Prize where the winning work is acquired by the National Wool Museum for its permanent collection. There are also $500 awards for Highly Commended in both categories.

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Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhib Memories of Childhood is a new online-themed exhibition featuring the artwork of OZQN members. The exhibition is divided into four sections. Today’s post looks at childhood connections to objects or nature:
◾️Travelbug by #zarazannettino
◾️Christmas Beetle by @wolskerebecca 
▪️Swap Cards by @sue_broadway 
▪️That Was Then by Sue Cunningham

View the full virtual exhibition on the Ozquilt Network website.

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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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