Website/blog: www.alisonschwabe.com
Facebook: Alison Schwabe Fabric Artist
Instagram: @schwabealison
E-mail: alison@alisonschwabe.com
In my abstract minimalist designs, I still use the basic sewing skills I learned as a child. I use natural and man-made fibres in both new and salvaged fabrics, and I’ll sew with any thread I can put through a needle.
My principal inspiration is landscape’s lines, shapes, colours and textures, and a road crossing a landscape has become a symbol for the story of my own Life. Symbolising the instinctive human desire for stability, order and peace, and following the brief time I spent making geometric patchwork, grid layouts frequently feature in my designs.
My work is in public and private collections in Australia, USA, Argentina and Uruguay. In addition to solo exhibitions in those countries, my art has appeared in many prestigious international juried, invitational and curated group exhibitions. I exhibit regularly in USA and Australia, and always welcome opportunities to speak to fibre art groups.
Out of Order #3
Retail Price: A$7500.00
Dimensions: 98 x 98cm (H x W)
Statement: The Post-WWII internationally agreed and largely adhered-to system of Rules Based Order is falling apart. Grid layouts in my designs are becoming increasingly distorted as they reflect increasing chaos in the world today.
Exhibitions: SAQA Global Exhibition Artistic Inspiration :AI
Photographer: Eduardo Baldizan
Pandemic Pattern
Retail Price: $5000
Dimensions: 94 x 72cm (H x W)
Statement: By mid 2020, rows and rows of newly dug graves became a common image on our TV screens as the new Corona virus began to ravage human populations in many countries.
Exhibitions: Quilt National 2021
Photographer: Eduardo Baldizan
So Many Coffins
Retail Price: $7500
Dimensions: 178 x 74cm (H x W)
Statement: As the Covid-19 pandemic spread, bodies piled up on streets, inside freezer trucks, overfilling funeral homes. Most shocking were the speedy, simple burials in fields of freshly dug graves, often performed without a single mourner present. (Pandemic Pattern #5)
Exhibitions: A small group covid-themed exhibition at World Of Threads Festival, October Ontario Canada.
Photographer: Eduardo Baldizan
Variants Of Interest
Retail Price: A$7500
Dimensions: 142 x 89cm (H x W)
Statement: Minute particles of the highly infectious Covid-19 virus floating around us, dividing, multiplying and occasionally changing to become more or less dangerous; but fortunately, we hear this phrase less often these days. (Pandemic Pattern #4)
Exhibitions: A small group covid-themed exhibition at World Of Threads Festival, October Ontario Canada.
Photographer: Eduardo Baldizan
Abstract Landscape Textures
Retail Price: A$15,000.00
Dimensions: 95 x 190cm (H x W)
Statement: I used these most basic of all man-made symbols to convey the sense of an exposed soil profile in a rail or road cutting or on a cliff face.
Exhibitions: Quilt National 2023
Photographer: Eduardo Baldizan
