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Packed in Pink

28 February 2012 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Exhibition: Beneath the Southern Sky 2 Comments

When you are organising a touring exhibition such as Beneath the Southern Sky, there are many logistical and other details to think about, not the least being how the exhibit will travel. I went suitcase shopping on Friday and, while this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, I can see some advantages in its […]

Visions of Pink

14 December 2009 Filed Under: Twelve by Twelve Leave a Comment

While others may have visions of the Sugar Plum Fairy after watching The Nutcracker ballet, yesterday our attention was firmly focussed on the mice as the Laundry King’s granddaughter (all of 4 1/2 years of age!) scurried backwards and forwards across the stage and battled with the soldiers: Yesterday was also 12/12 (the 12th of […]

More pink inspiration

7 December 2009 Filed Under: Twelve by Twelve Leave a Comment

San Francisco is reknown as the home of pink pride – a strong and vibrant gay community. On our first day in San Francisco, the Laundry King and I walked from the Civic Center; through the groovy boutiques off Hayes Valley; up over Alamo Square; through Golden Gate park and ended up at the Beach […]

Cotton candy pinks

31 October 2009 Filed Under: Twelve by Twelve 5 Comments

One way or another, I dyed 3+ metres of pink fabrics yesterday – that should be enough for a 12x12in quilt! And speaking of things pink, I don’t know what is happening with the Bid-4A-Cause quilts but Lisa Walton has a good photo of the complete collection over on her blog. Thanks Lisa!

Into the pink

30 October 2009 Filed Under: Technique:Dyeing, Twelve by Twelve 1 Comment

With the weather forecast for a warm day and the wet area in David’s workshop temporarily clear, I seized the moment to do some fuschia dyeing for the first Twelve by Twelve Colourplay Challenge – pink! I’ll let you know how this batch turns out.

More than tickled pink

5 October 2009 Filed Under: Newsletter, Technique:Finishing 2 Comments

So I allocated a number to all my current newsletter subscribers, and everyone who has left an on-blog comment in recent days, and then used a random number generator to come up with the number – 78. I got goosebumps when I discovered that 78 means that Tickled Pink will be delivered to D*** who […]

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It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026
It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
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My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an
My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm 
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough. 
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