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Rajah Award 2025

9 August 2025 Filed Under: Celebrations, Profile Leave a Comment

Back at the Australasian Quilt Convention in April, I was honoured to receive the esteemed Rajah Award which recognises outstanding achievement in quilting in Australia. I am deeply touched to know that my contribution is valued and look forward to teaching and exhibiting at the Australasian Quilt Convention 9-12 April 2026. This is the text […]

King Parrot Textile Sketch by Brenda Gael Smith

Creative Backstory: Celebratory Giveaway

7 July 2020 Filed Under: Creative Backstory 1 Comment

THANK YOU! to everyone who participated in my Creative Backstory Celebratory Giveaway by leaving a comment here on my or on my Serendipity Facebook page or using the tag #creativebackstory on Instagram. It’s been an interesting exercise for me to review the past 20 years or so and to think about where I am heading. […]

2019 3rd China Shenzhen International Quilt Art & Handicrafts Exhibition Expert Collection

Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2019

3 July 2020 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Creative Backstory, Exhibitions, Travel 3 Comments

Textile artist Brenda Gael Smith shares her creative backstory and her participation in the Third China Shenzhen International Quilt Art & Handicrafts Exhibition from 10-13 May 2019. Share your creative backstory and be part of Brenda’s celebratory giveaway.

Brenda Gael Smith - Copa Abstractions Weekly Art Project

Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2017-2018

30 June 2020 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Creative Backstory, Exhibitions, Weekly Art Project 1 Comment

Textile artist Brenda Gael Smith shares her creative backstory and how her weekly art project contributed to her 2018 solo exhibition–Natural Abstractions. Share your creative backstory and be part of Brenda’s celebratory giveaway.

High Country Lupins #3 and the Lupine Series by Brenda Gael Smith

Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2015-2016

28 June 2020 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Creative Backstory, Exhibitions, Twelve by Twelve Leave a Comment

To mark the 20th anniversary of my first baby quilt, I  have been reflecting on what I have learned along the way. Creative Backstory is a series of blog posts each highlighting a different year. I invite you to share your creative backstory. Each day, I will post an optional prompt. Leave your response as […]

Creative Backstory: Celebrating 20 Years – Year 2014

27 June 2020 Filed Under: Australia Quilts Exhibition, Creative Backstory, Curator Knowledge, Exhibitions, Twelve by Twelve 4 Comments

To mark the 20th anniversary of my first baby quilt, I  have been reflecting on what I have learned along the way. Creative Backstory is a series of blog posts each highlighting a different year. I invite you to share your creative backstory. Each day, I will post an optional prompt. Leave your response as […]

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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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