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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.

disillusion- a protest

Retail Price: A$2500
Dimensions: 140 x 176cm ( H x W)
Statement: Glaciers and Polar ice are melting at an alarming rate, not seen or recorded in documents including Lloyd’s logs. Capitalism and Corporations need to repair the Earth, make income and allow a future before there is nothing left.
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2024
Photographer: Tawfik Elgazzar

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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Closing 15 April 2025 - 2 weeks to go!

Calling all textile artists resident in Australia and Ozquilt Network members worldwide. Enter you work into Art Quilt Australia 2025 including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, an acquisitive award of @nationalwoolmuseum 

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Enter your textile artwork in Art Quilt Australia Enter your textile artwork in Art Quilt Australia 2025 (including Expressions the Wool Quilt Prize sponsored by @nationalwoolmuseum ). $9000 in prizes - open to artists resident in Australia and New Zealand and OZQN members worldwide.

Entries close 15 April 2025. Entry form on the Ozquilt Network website. Link in profile.

Art Quilt Australia 2025 will be on exhibition at the @yrrmuseum Yarra Ranges Regional Museum Lilydale, Victoria from Wednesday 9 July 2025 until Sunday 12 October 2025.

Here is a selection of prize winners from the last 10 years:

2023 Award of Excellence: Linda Steele @lindabsteele Moroccan Magic
2023 Expressions Wool Quilt Prize: Alison Withers DIY Deluge Design No.5

2021 Award of Excellence And then there were three by Cathy Jack Coupland @cathyjackcoupland 
2021 Expressions Wool Quilt Prize Ghost Blanket IV by Fiona Gavens @figavens 

2019 Award of Excellence Whitewash Neroli Henderson @neroli_henderson 
2019 Expressions Wool Quilt Prize: By Wagga Design Barbara Mellor

2017 Award of Excellence Chinese Whispers Judy Hooworth @judyhooworth1 
2017 Expressions Wool Quilt Prize Klimt Print #2 Suzanne Reid

2015 Award of Excellence Alvena Hall, Arboreus: Ediacara Suite 2015
2015 Expressions Wool Quilt Prize Lisa Davis, The Art of Record Keeping

#ozquiltnetwork #ozqnart #artquiltaustralia #artquiltaustralia2025 #expressionswoolquiltprize #nationalwoolmuseum #nationalwoolmuseumgeelong
Congratulations to OZQN member @judyhooworth1 Judy Congratulations to OZQN member @judyhooworth1 Judy Hooworth on last night’s marvellous  opening  to her successful exhibition ‘Down the Creek 2’ … breathtakingly beautiful textile art inspired by the intriguing  natural shapes and patterns  of Dora Creek. 
These stunning art works are now on display in the gallery or view online. The exhibition continues until 30 March.

https://timelesstextiles.com.au/events/down-the-creek-2-judy-hooworth/

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CALL FOR ENTRIES: ART QUILT AUSTRALIA 2025 Closing CALL FOR ENTRIES: ART QUILT AUSTRALIA 2025
Closing 15 April 2025

Calling all textile artists resident in Australia snd Ozquilt Network members worldwide. Start planning your entry for Art Quilt Australia 2025 including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize, an acquisitive award of @nationalwoolmuseum 

$9000 in prizes. No set theme - showcase YOUR best work! Entry form opens 15 February and closes at 5pm (Perth time) on 15 April. See the OZQN website for conditions of entry.
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