Website: www.barbaraweeks.com
Instagram: @barbaraweeks1785
E-mail: barbaraweeks16@gmail.com
Barbara works primarily with Australian merino wool and fine silks, creating surface design and depth of colour and texture through the wet felting process. Her artistic style can best be described as abstract impressionism.Inspiration is drawn from travels around Australia and within WA with the intention to capture and record the experience. After a lifetime in the Northern hemisphere each new venture presents a fresh perspective.
Barbara has lived in Geographe Bay since 2019 and feels fortunate to found a lively arts community that extends beyond textiles.
Barbara was selected for the WA Regional Arts Triennial In the Quiet of the Land‘ exhibited in the Busselton Arts complex , February 2026 .
Woollybutt was selected for Art Quilt Australia 2025. Currently with AW9, she has also toured with AW8 and AW7.
Barbara has been working with Textiles over five decades, teaching and exhibiting in the UK and Internationally. She is a member of Wafta, the International Feltmakers and an Honorary Life Member of the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. You can find her at the Margaret River Region Open Studios in September.
Lake Ballard
Retail Price: SOLD
Dimensions: 57 x 110cm(H x W)
Statement: Dusk and Dawn at Lake Ballard. Magical. No power, no phone signal. A wide open space suggests the earth’s curvature. The night sky dazzles. The cracked earth beneath my feet feels soft and vulnerable. The curious figures lead you on. Antony Gormley’s Inside Australia. Remoteness rewarded.
Exhibitions: Stitched and Bound. WAQA touring WA 2024-5
Tasmania!
Retail Price: A$1200
Dimensions: 98x84cm(H x W)
Statement: Land of snow, mountains, lakes and waterfalls. Forest wilderness, rivers racing, a lush carpet of green diversity. A tree study presented as a reflection, surrounded by textures and colours recorded around Tasmania! Painted silk, linear with sumi-ink. Silk gauze and fibres felted into merino wool.
Exhibitions: Stitched and Bound. WAQA touring WA 2026-7
