July events

Gallery 76

76 Queen Street, Concord West 2138

Open 9 - 4 Monday - Friday; 10 - 2 Saturday and Sunday

Closed public holidays

From the East to Paris is inspired by the meeting of Modernist French and Eastern European artists in the 1920s. It explores the creative collaborations between French Modernist artists and Eastern European artists who sought refuge in Paris during and after the Russian Revolution. The era's exuberant textiles are celebrated through costumes, sculptures, wall hangings and a monumental collaborative artwork.

 

Gallery 76

76 Queen Street, Concord West 2138

Open 9 - 4 Monday - Friday; 10 - 2 Saturday and Sunday

Closed public holidays

This exhibition brings together more than a decade of work by artist Jane Bodnaruk, tracing her use of second-hand clothing and household textiles to explore women, domesticity, memory, and care.

Thank you Pat

Multi talented, very creative Fairholme member Pat Nerlich painted three barn style quilts to decorate the ends of the quilt frames at the #fairholmequiltshow2026 in May - they drew in visitors’ eyes as they entered the main display, looking fabulous.  Many thanks Pat.

For our 2024 Quilt Show, Pat made large paper flowers and gorgeous fantasy
fabric birds to decorate the row ends - what might she conjure up for next time?

For more information on modern barn quilts, see History of Barn Quilts, from American Patchwork and Quilting,  July 2025.

Recent community quilt finishes

Janet whipped up a cot quit from her batik stash,
including the backing.

Can you see the two slightly different blocks in this quilt made by
Elaine W? It’s a nine block version of Amy Ellis’s design
‘Whispered Lace’ from her book Modern Neutrals.

How often could you be as lucky as Anne? She went to a branch
 of The Sewing Basket to drop off some donations, and right
 there she found all of the whirlygig blocks for the centre of this
quilt, already stitched, and packaged with a length of turquoise
fabric for the sashing. So of course she bought it and finished
it into a community quilt.

This one was a team effort - the feature fabrics were donated by
members, Helen packaged them into kits with bright sashing
fabrics, and Pam put the top together. Anne took the basted top,
quilted and bound it.

Another kit of donated feature prints and sashing ended up with Jill.

The backing fabric is an early Jocelyn Proust print found at Spotlight
for a rare bargain price of $4/m just a few months ago.

A little cot quilt top made entirely from scraps in Jill’s stash,
and sashing and border fabric shopped from Sue’s …

…  the backing fabric was a donation to the community
stash, and the binding was a late find in Jill’s cupboard,
 just enough with 2” to spare. 

Quilts and their people 6 (of 6) - Fairholme Quilt Show 2026

Quilts and their people 5 (of 6) - Fairholme Quilt Show 2026

 

Quilts and their people 4 (of 6) - Fairholme Quilt Show 2026