Friday, December 20, 2024

Reading, viewing, listening …


Farm Life Quilt - National Museum of Australia 


Nettie McColive created the Farm Life quilt in the 1930s while growing up on an isolated dairy farm in South Australia. This quilt is one of three in the Nettie McColive collection. It measures 189 x 184 cm and is backed with a fine gingham material …
Tony Armstrong’s Extrordinary Things Exhibition online and at the National Museum of Australia until 9 February 2025


Queer quilts, rebellious knitting and political pants: the radical world of textiles
… textiles have a history of marginalisation in the high art world; associated with women, domesticity, First Nations traditions, and queer and class activism. They have been ignored or dismissed by the “pale, male and stale” art canon.

Radical Textiles at the Art Gallery of South Australia revels in its rejections of this bias and in its enthusiastic reverence for expert craft …Van Badham, The Guardian, 29 November 2024


A seamstress's collection of hand-sewn creations keeps her memory alive in regional SA

Doris Odgers spent most of her life making clothes for herself and her community. Her collection of 1900s dresses, bathing suits, hats, lace, and more was recently on show in an exhibition to remember the life and fashion of a beloved regional woman … ABC News, 23 June 2024


Meet Korina Oswald

Currently my artistic practice is focused on community-based projects like the glass quilt, that involve artists from around the world. Leading community projects were first conceived in the aftermath of COVID’s isolation as a way to connect with glass artists who felt othered by the elitism of the fine art world. Much like quilt-making, glass has long been relegated to “craft” and its artistry has been almost completely absent from prestigious institutions. Oswald seeks to broaden the conversation of what constitutes fine art by creating a piece so large that it cannot be ignored … Canvas Rebel, 28 March 2024





The Cahoon Museum of American Art’s public art installation, The Quilted Cahoon, features a giant quilt made from recycled sails created by San Francisco artist Joe Cunningham that covers the facade of the museum building.

As part of the museum’s Streetside series, this unexpected and stunning quilt is designed to highlight the museum’s 18th-century Georgian architecture ... Cahoonmuseum.org

Follow the process on Instagram, Facebook and You Tube: https://youtu.be/WtM7P3CNhIQ


Linen Works 10m 23s
Join author and modern quilter Sarah Hibbert  as she guides you through the colourful quilts in her Linen Works Exhibition. Sarah combines hand stitching with linen textural fabric to create her modern artworks. Sarah’s gallery includes a selection of her recent work featured in her book From Collage to Quilt. Filmed at the Festival of Quilts (UK) 2022.  Arnold’s Attic

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