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Linda Balding, North Nowra, NSW

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.

Shadow from the Peach Tree by Linda BaldingShadows 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 Linda BaldingAfter 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

Linda Balding Desert LinesPrice: 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

 

© Linda Balding

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This is a reminder that entries for Art Quilt Aust This is a reminder that entries for Art Quilt Australia 2021 including Expressions: the Wool close in one month on Friday 30 April 2021 at 5pm (Perth time). Art Quilt Australia 2021 is open to residents of Australia and New Zealand and OZQN members worldwide. Submission is via the online entry form only. Follow the profile link for more information. #artquiltaustralia #artquiltaustralia2021 #expressionswoolquiltprize #ozquiltnetwork #nationalwoolmuseum @nationalwoolmuseum @yrrmuseum @shoalhaven_regional_gallery #ozqnart #ozquiltnetwork
MEET THE ARTIST THURSDAY #6 join OZQN members Lisa MEET THE ARTIST THURSDAY #6
join OZQN members Lisa Walton and Brenda Gael Smith
1-3pm Thursday 18 March at @hawkesburyregional_gallery regional_gallery 
Bookings recommended but you are welcome to just drop in. 

Each Thursday in March, an artist (or two!) will be in attendance at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery from 1-3pm. 

This week is Lisa Walton with her artwork “If only” and Brenda Gael Smith with her two artworks Acuity #5: Zemblanity and Integrifolia #7:Emergence.

Learn more about their  inspiration and process on Thursday.

#thenewquilt #thenewquilt2021 #quiltnsw @quiltnsw @thenewquilt @hawkesburyregional_gallery #artofquilting 
#meettheartistthursday #ifonly #acuity #integrifolia #banksia @brendagaelsmith @lisawaltonartist
OZQN members topped the @quiltnsw 2020 suitcase ch OZQN members topped the @quiltnsw 2020 suitcase challenge - Our Environment. Congratulations to:

FIRST PRIZE: Me and Murphy by Sheila Beer who won a BERNINA sewing machine @thingstitcher 

SECOND PRIZE + VIEWERS CHOICE (tied): Mulga Burning by Linden Lancaster 

THIRD PRIZE + VIEWERS CHOICE (tied): Landlines by Jill Rumble  @collage_stitch_quilt 

JUDGES COMMENDATION: Renewal by Brenda Gael Smith @brendagaelsmith 

You can view all of the challenge quilts on the QuiltNSW website.
Art Quilt Australia , including Expressions: the W Art Quilt Australia , including Expressions: the Wool Quilt Prize, is a biennial juried exhibition open to textile artists resident in Australia and New Zealand, and OZQN members worldwide. OZQN defines a quilt as a stitched layered textile incorporating any material and employing any technique. The National Wool Museum defines a wool quilt in a similar manner but it must be composed predominantly of wool.

Art Quilt Australia 2021 seeks to promote excellence and originality in contemporary art quilts in Australia. Works will be assessed in terms of originality, composition, content and execution by a jury of acknowledged experts: Lisa Call, Julie Ryder and Bronwyn Coulston.

There will be over $6000 in prizes, comprising:

$3000 for Expressions: the Wool Quilt Prize, for a wool quilt. The winning quilt is acquired by the National Wool Museum for its permanent collection;
$3000 for the non-acquisitive OZQN Award of Excellence, which is open to all quilts; and
$500 awards for Highly Commended in both categories.
Art Quilt Australia 2021 will be on exhibition at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery at Nowra NSW from 12 June until 3 July 2021, followed by the Yarra Ranges Regional Museum at Lilydale, Victoria from 7 August until 31 October 2021.

Entries close at 5pm (Perth time) on Friday 30 April 2021. Submission is via the online entry form only.

#artquiltaustralia #artquiltaustralia2021 # expressionswoolquiltprize #woolquiltprize  @nationalwoolmuseum  @shoalhaven_regional_gallery @yrrmuseum

AUSTRALIA WIDE SEVEN

 Future Fossil 1 byLois Parish Evans : Australia Wide Seven
Helen Gray - Sea of Leaves - Australia Wide Seven
Fiona Gavens - Ghost Blanket V: Australia Wide Seven
Helping in the Garden by Sharon Peoples: Australia Wide Seven
Blue Box Fish Brenda Wood: Australia Wide Seven
The Blues by Linda Steele: Australia Wide Seven
Boxed In by Tara Glastonbury: Australia Wide Seven
Fiona Gavens- Dreaming of Rajasthan III: Australia Wide Seven
Intriguing Irridescence by Zara Zannettino: Australia Wide Seven
Acuity #6 In a Twinkle of an Eye by Brenda Gael Smith: Australia Wide Seven
Brainwaves by Victoria Mansfield: Australia Wide Seven
Sue Reid - Vasarely Print: Australia Wide Seven
Babblers on the Lawn by Linden Lancaster: Australia Wide Seven
Bird's eye view - Ganges Delta by Alison Charlton:Australia Wide Seven
Migrate Red by Julie Haddrick: Australia Wide Seven
Making a Point - Dianne Firth: Australia Wide Seven
Flowers Always #9 by Suzanne Gummow
Away from Home - Carolyn Sullivan
Gatherings 2: Susan Mathews
Plankton Drift 1 by Alvena Hall
Summer Sketch II by Judy Hooworth
Summer Sketch III by Judy Hooworth
Trek by Alison Withers
Double Denim by Beth & Trevor Reid
Regeneration 2 by Alison Schwabe
Summer Inferno #2 Sandra Champion
Abstracted Landscapes:Apple Isle by Lynn Hargreaves
Disconnected Habitat - Marie Mitchell
Bird Count - Shearwater Migration by Judy Wilford
Stitches in Time by June Brown
Freedom by June Brown
Smoky Moon - Wilma Cawley
Burnt #1 Julie-Anne Rogers Australia Wide Seven
Coolbardie - Suzanne Lyle- Australia Wide Seven
Blue Grass - Carolyn Sullivan
Wind by Dianne Firth: Australia Wide Seven
Lost at Sea by Alysn Midgelow Marsden
Landlines-Shadows- Jill Rumble
Very Dry by Alison Muir
Layout 1 by Sue Cunningham

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