Website: www.forestandthreads.com
Email: quiltmakers@ozquiltnetwork.org.au
Linda is a Textile artist, Printmaker and Arts Educator with a Diploma of Art Education, Cert Gifted Ed Primary. After completing her training at A M CAE, (now the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts) she won a scholarship to study printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest Hungary. Returning to Australia she began teaching art in secondary schools while continuing her own art practice. She worked for 12 years as an Education Officer with The Bundanon Trust, artist Arthur Boyd’s property gifted to the nation in 1993.
Her works are semi-abstract and often focus on subtle colours and patterns in the natural surroundings and the micro environment. She paints and prints on silk and other fabrics and uses stitch and collage to interpret these patterns and explore the colours of the bush, sometimes focusing on close up detail. She also uses natural dyes made from fungi and gum leaves.
As a textile artist and keen quilter, Linda is a member of ATASDA and TAFTA and has participated in many Fibre Forums over the years. Linda has works in the collections of Craft NSW, Bundanon Trust and Shoalhaven City Council and is a regular exhibitor in group exhibitions.
Shadows from the Peach Tree
Price: NFS
Dimensions: 74 x 49cm (H x W)
Statement: I sat on the back verandah at Meroogal and noticed the shadows across the laundry window. The panes of glass had been painted white ( for privacy? ) but were scratched and worn and marked by time and provided no clear view inside. I was in the present, and the window was a symbol of a view into the past and the history and memories of the generations of women that lived there, and shadows of the past is often all that remains.
Exhibitions: Meeroogal Women’s Art Prize 2020
After the Rain
Price: $250
Dimensions: 40x40cm (H x W)
Statement: After years of drought across the country and a scorching, fire ravaged summer the rain finally came. On the coast green now dominates the landscape and crops are thriving.
Photographer: Cassandra Balding
Desert Lines
Price: NFS
Dimensions: 107 x 107cm (H x W)
Statement: As a textile artist I work with fabric and threads but use them in none traditional ways. This is a layered quilted textile which has very little in common with practical traditional quilts. This art quilt is a montage of personal images of special places from the outback, an overall impression of the beauty of the desert environment. Having lived in Alice Springs I was fascinated by the variation in landscape and light, and the subtle colours and patterns in the outback. Line dominates, giving a snap shot of the desert world; at once harsh and unforgiving, subtle and delicate, through multiple images
which blend as one.
Exhibitions: Australian Textile Art Award Finalist 2020
Photographer: Cassandra Balding
Lifeline
Price: AUD $1000
Dimensions: 110x 110cm (H x W)
Statement: This quilt represents my life up to recent retirement.The line through the centre to top being my creative art work. The pyramid area at bottom represents family, the wavy lines out from the middle and bubble shapes signify the amazing variety of life experiences and influences on my life..
Exhibitions: AQIPP Melbourne 2017 World Quilt Competition USA 2018
Photographer: Cassandra Balding
© Linda Balding
