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.
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
