I invite you to come and learn with me! While there are currently restrictions on travel and gatherings, I am excited at how technology enables us to effectively share our creative spaces and work side-by-side no matter where we are in the world and what time zone we are in. Drawing upon some of my […]
SAQA Benefit Auction 2020
Bidding is now open for the second section of the SAQA Benefit Auction 2020 which includes my contribution In a Whisper of Time. Can you spot it in the line up below? I selected A Whisper in Time, a thread painting from my back catalogue, as a gentle antidote to 2020 and hope that it […]
Ask a Curator Q&A
For Ask a Curator day 2020, Brenda Gael Smith invites Q&A and shares what she looks for when selecting works for exhibition.
Australian Textile Art Award 2020
Back on 20 March 2020, the inaugural Australian Textile Art Award opened at the Embroiders Guild gallery in Melbourne sponsored by Art Wear Publications. The gallery closed that evening due to COVID-19 and has not reopened since. A catalogue arrived in the mail but my mind was on other things. In short, it seemed like […]
Hanging Multi-Part Textile Works
Textile artist and curator Brenda Gael Smith shares an effective, low-fuss method of hanging a collection of small textile works.
Aotearoa Quilters Aqua Challenge
Textile artist Brenda Gael Smith shares her textile painting Acuity #4: Clarity, her entry into the Aotearoa Quilters 2020 Colour Challenge – Aqua.
