Website: www.barbaraweeks.com
Instagram: @barbaraweeks1785
E-mail: barbaraweeks16@gmail.com
Barbara works primarily with merino wool and fine silks, creating surface design through the wet felting process. There is an element of risk, of serendipity and the pleasure of working directly with the hands.
Barbara has lived in Geographe Bay since 2019. Inspired by the landscape, coastlines and geology of WA, colour and texture drive my textile response. Barbara has been working with textiles over five decades, teaching and exhibiting in the UK and Internationally. Contemporary quilt making has been a major focus; the diverse methods of colouring cloth a continuing passion. Barbara is a member of Wafta, the Bunbury Felting Group, the IFA and an honorary life member of the Quilters Guild of the British Isles. Currently her quilt ‘Underfoot’ is touring with the OZQuilt Network Australia Wide 9 and ‘Lake Ballard’ is touring with WAQA Stitched and Bound.
You can visit Barbara 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
