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E-mail: margery@goodalls.id.au
Margery Goodall has had a longstanding creative practice focusing on stitched cloth over many years, with a more recent addition of stitched assemblages of found objects and waste materials. Her work has been exhibited in numerous selective exhibitions in Australia and internationally including the Alice Craft Award, the City of Joondalup Art Prize, the York Botanic Art Prize (2020, 2023) and the Perth Royal Art Prize (2024). Her textile work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas, and in the collection of the International Quilt Museum in USA.
While stitched cloth continues to be an important element of Margery’s practice, the use of found objects and waste materials is a major focus with many works responding to the increasing fragility of the Australian landscape. Margery transforms household waste materials into stitched assemblages which reflect on the connections and constraints of the relationships between regarding between modern living and the natural environment.
Food for Thought #1: Beating The Blues
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 101 x 63cm (H x W)
Statement: In times of stress, comfort food comes into its own. A rapidly growing stash of packaging from the online grocer provided inspiration for a Covid comfort quilt to beat the blues. Bright, colourful, appealing and so convenient, but the twist in the tail is the long-term consequences.
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2021; Ellenbrook Art Prize 2023
Photographer: Churchill Imaging
Endangered: Showy Everlastings (Field of Dreams #1
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Dimensions: 74 x 75cm (H x W)
Statement: The artwork is inspired by the critically endangered status of this plant. Using man-made materials highlight the precariousness of its continued survival. Plastic bottles are created to be used once but are effectively everlasting. In contrast, we call these flowers ‘everlasting’ but human activity means their existence is increasingly fragile.
Exhibitions: York Botanic Art Prize 2023; Du Rietz Art Award 2024
Photographer: Churchill Imaging
Food for Thought #2: What a Comfort
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Dimensions: 70 x 62cm (H x W)
Statement: One of several works looking at the events and items that help us be happy. Drawing attention to the actual materials, plastic-based cellophane paper not suitable for recycling and aluminium foil pieces too small to be easily collected for re-use can indeed contribute to ‘food for thought’.
Exhibition: Stitched and Bound 2024
Photographer: Acorn Photos
Flower Cloth #1
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Dimensions: 75cm x 160cm (H x W)
Statement: Flower Cloth Suite, a diptych comprising #1 the Smoky Eremophila and #2 the Matchstick Banksia. The form and colours of these two critically endangered Western Australian plant species inspired these quilts. Both species are rarely found in the wild, but Smoky Eremophila is now cultivated for garden use from cuttings.
Exhibitions: #1 York Botanic Art Prize 2020; #2 Stitched & Bound 2022
Photographer: Churchill Imaging
