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Contemporary Quilts

Forza Vitale: Phosphorescence

18 September 2024 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts Leave a Comment

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.

Red headed artist wearing stripey top is smiling next to her aqua-hued textile painting

Forza Vitale: Breathe

6 May 2024 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Exhibitions 1 Comment

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. […]

Art Quilt Australia 2023

18 August 2023 Filed Under: Art Quilt Australia, Australian Art, Contemporary Quilts, Exhibitions Leave a Comment

Brenda Gael Smith is a finalist in the Gosford Art Prize 2022 with her artwork “Banksia Filigree” on exhibition 20 August to 23 October 2022.

Vibrance: AQC Challenge 2023 In Full Bloom

10 April 2023 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Exhibitions 2 Comments

Vibrance: Tip Toe Through the Tulips is a textile artwork by Brenda Gael Smith and a finalist in the AQC Challenge 2023 – In Full Bloom.

Flash Sale: Ends 30 November 2022

24 November 2022 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts Leave a Comment

Brighten your day with an original textile artwork by Brenda Gael Smith – Flash Sale runs to 30 November 2022.

SAQA Benefit Auction 2022

23 September 2022 Filed Under: Contemporary Quilts, Exhibitions Leave a Comment

Bidding is now open for the SAQA Benefit Auction 2022. 430+ artworks are available for collectors including Integrifolia #13: Dispersal by Brenda Gael Smith.

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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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