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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-LifelineLifeline

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

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Ozquilt Network's biennial juried exhibition, Art Ozquilt Network's biennial juried exhibition, Art Quilt Australia 2021, open to all Australian and New Zealand textile artists and OZQN members worldwide. The exhibition will be held at @shoalhaven_regional_gallery in Nowra NSW from Saturday 12 June until Saturday 3 July 2021. 
▪️over $6000 in prizes
▪️no theme-submit your best work
▪️max size 250x200cm (HxW)
▪️minimum perimeter 300cm
▪️3D stitched and layered works are eligible
▪️for the Expressions Wool Quilt prize (acquisitive by @nationalwoolmuseum ), must be predominantly wool with at least 60% wool on the visible surface
▪️entries open 1 February and close 30 April
▪️discounted entry fee for OZQN members. Membership year starts 1 January. Join or renew today!
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Installation photos from Australia Wide Seven on e Installation photos from Australia Wide Seven on exhibition at @belcoarts until 18 December 2020. The exhibition continues on tour until 2022 including at the @nationalquiltmuseum in Paducah, USA from 4 March – 19 July 2022. 
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Visitors to the Australia Wide Seven exhibition at Visitors to the Australia Wide Seven exhibition at @belcoarts until 18 December can view the exhibition catalogue that includes an introduction by @zanzibert . If you can’t make the exhibition in person, check out the Ozquilt Network website that includes a comprehensive online gallery and Dr Bowker’s critique available as a  PDF download. 

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Ozquilt Network proudly presents Australia Wide Se Ozquilt Network proudly presents Australia Wide Seven, a touring exhibition showcasing the artwork of its members. The exhibition premieres at @belcoarts  from 30 October to 18 December 2020 and continues on tour until October 2022. 

Book with @belcoarts for the opening at 6pm 30 October and come along to the artist talks from 11am-12 noon tomorrow 31 October in the West Gallery.
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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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