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Zig Zag Pizzazz at the Australasian Quilt Convention 2025

4 December 2024 Filed Under: Teaching, Workshop Spotlight

In my quiet time, I am currently developing some new workshops and I find myself engrossed in the nature of the zig zag in all its guises. I am talking about a pattern or movement characterized by sharp, angular turns in alternating directions, resembling the shape of the letter β€œZ” repeated multiple times. Β It’s a […]

Glioblastoma: Statistics and Stories

20 November 2024 Filed Under: Daily Life

My late husband, The Laundry King, is part of a grim set of statistics. He had glioblastoma, an aggressive infiltrative form of brain cancer that has no cure. The median survival for glioblastoma is 12-15 months. That is, even with treatment, just 50% of glioblastoma patients survive this long after diagnosis. Only 5% of patients […]

Learn with me: 2025 workshops

29 October 2024 Filed Under: Teaching, Zoom Workshops

Learn with me! Bookings are now open for my 2025 workshops: three in-person classes at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne from 10-13 April 2025 and my live and interactive Zoom workshop with Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse #10 on 22 January 2025 (US time). As I reflect on my priorities following the death of my husband, […]

Forza Vitale: Phosphorescence

18 September 2024 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts

Making art has not been a priority over the past 18 months but, in mid-2023, I somehow I managed to complete Phosphorescence in my new Forza Vitale series. I am pleased to share it for the first time at the QuiltNSW exhibition this week at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse: 9.30-4pm 19-22 September 2024.

Bodacious Beads at QUILT2024 Summer Camp

26 June 2024 Filed Under: Teaching

Join Brenda Gael Smith for a FREE Bodacious Beads workshop at QUILT2024 Summer Camp in July. Jump online and book your place today!

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Forza Vitale: Breathe

6 May 2024 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Exhibitions

What a joy to be able to share my textile painting Forza Vitale: Breathe (67 x 106 cm) in The New Quilt 2024 on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, New South Wales until 23 June 2024. I first conceived the Forza Vitale series in late 2022 as the world emerged from the COVID pandemic. […]

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