Website: www.normaslabbert.com
Facebook: Quiltmaker Norma
Instagram: @quiltmakernorma
E-mail: normaslabbert@xtra.co.nz
Norma Slabbert is a writer and quiltmaker from New Zealand. Her quilts record time and place. They reflect the life she lives and the things she cares about. As a journalist and migrant, her work often reflects on the realities of daily life, emotional truths, comings and goings, isolation, belonging, place and displacement, and the space between.
May Your Garden Flower Again
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 210×260 cm
Statement: When we must suddenly leave or flee a treasured garden or when our gardens are destroyed by fire, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, or raging wars, we mourn the loss of every plant, tree and flower. We feel that deep human tension between despair and hope that our gardens will flower again.
Flourish / Decay
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 70×50 cm
Statement: Exploring the tension between flourish and decay, where beauty and decline coexist. The vase suggests care and growth, while dark flowers, falling fragments, and frayed edges mark decay. The quilt invites lingering between opposites–to recognise that growth carries the seed of its own decline with quiet and enduring beauty.
Exhibition: SAQA Oceania Regional Exhibition – Opposites
