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You are here: Home / Member Profiles & Gallery / Linda Balding, North Nowra, NSW

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
Uni of NSW School of Art & Design she took up 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 has worked for the last 20 years as an Education Officer at Bundanon, artist Arthur Boyd’s property near Nowra NSW, gifted to the nation in 1993, and still enjoys working with visiting student groups and helping to inspire the next generation of young artists.

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. Eco dying has been a feature of more recent work, with beautiful colours and patterns achieved with bark, gum leaves andnother plant material and then embellished with print and hand and machine stitching.

As a Textile Artist and Printmaker Linda is also a member of ATASDA and Megalo Print Studio ACT and has participated in many Fibre Forums over the years. Linda has works in collections of Craft Council NSW, Bundanon and Shoalhaven City Council and with Private Collectors in Australia and New Zealand. She is a regular exhibitor in
group and solo 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

The Past Reimagined

Price: $800
Dimensions: 117 x 117cm (H x W)
Statement: This work was inspired by an old Roman floor mosaic in a church in Turkey. Weathered and worn by centuries of use, the subtle colour changes achieved by the eco dye process emulate the damage and decay, also echoed in the changes to the symmetry of design.
Exhibitions: Australian Quilts in Public Places 2021

Life Force

Price: $380
Dimensions: 90 x 68cm (H x W)
Statement: The Tree is a potent symbolof life, providing shelter and clean air in a healthy environment. On a personal level to develop well we are influenced by previous generations,culturally, genetically and physically. We absorb all these traits and experiences as the tree absorbs sustenance through its roots. .
Exhibitions:  Megalo Members 2021

Empowered by Family

Price: $200
Dimensions: 25 x 25cm (H x W)
Statement: The River is a symbol for me of all the past generations who have genetically and personally made me who I am. Three branches of the river, my children, the red thread my husband and I. Now with grandchildren we are empowered to be a nurturing example for them.
Exhibitions:  One Red Thread – Empowered M M Huskisson 21

© Linda Balding

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Congratulations to OZQN member June Brown who is r Congratulations to OZQN member June Brown who is recognised in the Australia Day Honours for outstanding service to community and creative arts.

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Wangaratta Art Gallery wishes to congratulate June Brown who has today been recognised in the Australia Day Honours for outstanding service to community.

June has been awarded an Order of Australia (OAM) Medal, for service to the Creative Arts. June has made an exceptional lifetime commitment to the quilting and textile craft and art forms at a local and national level. Her practice and contributions have raised the profile of these art forms, forged new techniques and simultaneously activated and enriched communities and organisations in the sector. She has cultivated the textile art practice and medium, and advanced quilting as an art form in Australia.

Importantly, June has collected women's stories, recorded women’s history, improved women’s wellbeing, and shared the stories of Australian Culture, landscapes, heritage and identity.

June has donated countless volunteer hours to projects, festivals, committees, and the service of Wangaratta Art Gallery. In recent years, June has shifter her support to Philanthropic funding both through her personal funds and her family’s Foundation ‘Kyamba’. Such a long-term, selfless and passionate contribution with substantial impacts on community wellbeing, cultural growth and enrichment, deserves recognition. 

Congratulations June, the Wangaratta Community celebrates your achievement 👏🏻⭐️🏅

Image: June Brown OAM, January 2023
Image: @Beechworth photographers @erindavis.hartwig 

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There aren’t a lot of opportunities to have your There aren’t a lot of opportunities to have your art quilt hanging alongside your peers in a gallery setting in Australia, but #artquiltaustralia2023 is one such opportunity.

Expertly curated and beautifully lit, chosen works are showcased at their best.

Details for this juried exhibition, along with entry conditions, can be found at the Ozquilt Network website (link in bio).

Online entry opens 15 March 2023.

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Join Ozquilt Network to raise the profile of art q Join Ozquilt Network to raise the profile of art quilts in 2023! Join online. Link in profile.

The Ozquilt Network membership year starts on 1 January so now is an ideal time to optimise your membership for full benefits including:
▪️discounted entry fee to Art Quilt Australian 2023 including Expressions: The Wool Quilt Prize
▪️free entry into the new online members' exhibition “Memories of Childhood” that closes on 31 January 2023
▪️share your artwork in the members gallery on the Ozquilt Network website
▪️ an informative and insightful monthly e-newsletter

Featured artwork Blossom Bounty by @ruthdevosart currently touring in the Ozquilt Network members' exhibition "Australia Wide Eight".

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Memories of Childhood: We invite all Ozquilt Netwo Memories of Childhood: We invite all Ozquilt Network members to submit images of art quilts for an online exhibition of works that depict in abstract or pictorial form what the theme Memories of Childhood evokes for you. Entries close at 5pm on Friday 31 January Perth time.

Not a member? join today for the 2023 membership year and you will also be eligible to enter your artwork into the OZQN members gallery.

Membership link in profile. International members welcome.

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From the OZQN Members’ Gallery
Since Your Days Began
By @ruthdevosart 

Dimensions: 80 x 80cm (H x W)
Statement: Since Your Days Began captures a fleeting moment through the slow, mindful process of stitching together lots of little pieces of fabric.

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Australia Wide Eight

Sue Broadway artwork
Artwork by Deborah Weir with details of the Australia Wide Eight exhibition
Detail image of The Door of No Return by Sue Reid depicting black men in chains in a corridor
Green gum leaves on light background with intensive stitching by Lois Parish Evans
Brown gum leaves printed on light coloured background
Summer Storm at Sunset by Jill Rumble
Kalbarri by Barbara Weeks
Purple and green Artwork by Lynne Hargreaves
Calistemon Cascade - two rows of red triangles on a turquoise background by Brenda Gael Smith

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