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Dianne Firth, Canberra, ACT

E-mail: quiltmakers@ozquiltnetwork.org.au

Starting with traditional bed quilts several decades ago, I have moved to using the quilt medium as a vehicle to explore issues and express ideas. Many of my works are informed by my training as a landscape architect and also from my observations of the relationships and interactions between nature and people. Using a process of abstraction I like to manipulate line, colour and texture to capture an idea, highlight an issue, or evoke a visual and emotional response in the viewer.

My quilts are held in public and private collections in Australia, Europe and USA including: the National Gallery of Australia, the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Museum of Australia, Canberra, University of Canberra Art Collection, Wangaratta Gallery Victoria and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Bread

Dianne Firth BreadRetail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 83x70cm (H x W)
Statement: Bread has been a staple food in most cultures for thousands of years. Wheat and other grains are used to create this remarkable food. Take the grain, crush it to flour, add water and leavening, bake or steam it, and you make bread.
Exhibitions: Gastronomy SAQA Global Exhibition
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

Black River

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 83cm x 145cmcm (H x W)
Exhibitions: Golden Textures 2021
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

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Three Stones

Retail Price: A$850
Dimensions: 58 x 58cm (H x W)
Statement:  Water-worn stones are a continuing source of inspiration. Orange felt,
representing stones, is held between two layers of net, representing waterwhile machine stitching represents flow patterns.
Exhibitions:  One Step Further 2019,  Bundoora
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

Waterholes

Retail Price: $1500
Dimensions: 190 x 106cm
Statement: This whole cloth wool quilt was inspired by the dry stone gardens I saw in Japan. Could they be islands surrounded by the sea, bubbles floating on water or just rocks set in raked sand?
Photographer: Dianne Firth

Storm Code

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 69 x 56cm
Statement: Morse code and semaphore are two systems that humans use to send messages. Nature also sends coded messages. The story of a storm is held in the pattern of detritus left behind.
Exhibitions: One Step Further 2020/2021
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

Change

Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 134x 205cm
Statement: Change was created following the bushfires in eastern Australia at the end of 2019 and into 2020. Not only were lives and property lost, but the visual change to large tracts of much-loved native forest was immediate. Tracts of light-coloured trunks of Eucalyptus forest became black charred remains.
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2021, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Photographer: Andrew Sikorski

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“Represented here are some of the plankton species that drift in the oceanic currents, at the very foundation of life, largely responsible for the very oxygen we breathe.”

Materials: Discharged silk, black bat, cotton backing
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