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Colourplay Down Under

TWild Lupins from Twelve by Twelve Colourplay

Colourplay in Down Under Textiles

9 May 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Contemporary Quilts, Profile Leave a Comment

Look out for the Colourplay article in Issue No 10 of Down Under Textiles magazine: The articles runs to five pages and includes this photo of my Wild Lupins quilt from the PurpleYellow challenge:

Twelve by Twelve Colourplay @ Pinnacles Gallery

30 April 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Twelve by Twelve Leave a Comment

The Twelve by Twelve Colourplay exhibition opens this week at Pinnacles Gallery in Townsville, Queensland. Kirsty will be representing the Twelves at the opening celebrations at 11am on Saturday and, rumour has it, there will be bright coloured cupcakes and macarons. All welcome!

Australasian Quilt Convention 2013

17 April 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Exhibition: Australia Wide Three, Teaching Leave a Comment

The Australasian Quilt Convention is the premier event in the Australian quilting calendar and I am pleased to teaching and exhibiting here in 2013. Between the Twelve by Twelve Colourplayexhibition, Australia Wide Three and the Australasian Quilt Convention Challenge – FREE, I have 14 15 works on display. You can even catch a small glimpse […]

Flying Colours at Australasian Quilt Convention 2013

12 April 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Contemporary Quilts, Exhibition: Australia Wide Three 1 Comment

Budgies Uncaged, the latest work in my Flying Colours series, has been selected as a finalist in the Australasian Quilt Convention 2013 challenge – FREE.  You can view this quilt next week (18-21 April) at AQC and it will then go on tour with the Craft & Quilt Fairs. Artist Statement: In some parts of […]

Colourplay Update

5 April 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Twelve by Twelve 1 Comment

It’s been a busy week preparing for upcoming teaching and exhibition commitments. Fortunately my laser printer conked out after  I had printed out all my class materials.  I found out that the dates for the exhibition in Townsville have changed slightly.  Here are the updated details. Catch the Colorplay Series on exhibition tour in Australia […]

Colourplay @ Sydney

7 March 2013 Filed Under: Colourplay Down Under, Twelve by Twelve Leave a Comment

The Colourplay exhibition opened today at the Stitches & Craft Show at Rosehill in Sydney. Here’s how it looked after I finished installation. I will be back again on Sunday. Come along for my floor talk at 12 noon!

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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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