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Vision 2020

3 Vision 2020 Artists and curator Brenda Gael Smith

Vision 2020 at Gosford Hospital Exhibition Space

1 December 2020 Filed Under: Vision 2020 Leave a Comment

Vision 2020 textile art exhibition premieres at the Gosford Hospital Exhibition Space from 9 November 2020 to 15 January 2021. Join curator Brenda Gael Smith for a floor talk.

Vision 2020 Catalogue

Launch of Vision 2020 Online Gallery and Catalogue

15 April 2020 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Vision 2020 Leave a Comment

According to my pre-COVID-19 calendar, today is installation day for the premiere of the Vision 2020 exhibition at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne. Instead, I am at home at Copacabana and the collection is resting in a suitcase. Sigh. I look forward to when it is possible for me to share these fantastic artworks […]

Vision 2020 - a travelling textile art exhibition curated by Brenda Gael Smith

Vision 2020: Further Statistics & Curatorial Insights

19 January 2020 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Vision 2020 Leave a Comment

With scope to select up to 40 works from 100 complying entries, I wondered if the selection process for Vision 2020 might be a little easier than for my previous exhibitions. However, making the final selection was still an intense process and I had to leave out some strong works. Ironically, even my own entry […]

Vison 2020 Artists

Vision 2020 Artists

17 January 2020 Filed Under: Vision 2020 Leave a Comment

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry for the Vision 2020 travelling textile art exhibition. I understand that artists have many demands on their creative time and this summer has been especially challenging. I appreciate your support of my curatorial endeavours. I selected 40 textile works (ie 20+20 – a record!) from 107 entries […]

Vision 2020: a preliminary view

11 January 2020 Filed Under: Curator Knowledge, Vision 2020 5 Comments

Entries for Vision 2020, my next travelling textile art exhibition, closed at midnight on Friday 10 January 2020. As with my previous exhibitions (see related posts below), my goal is to be transparent and insightful about the selection process whilst respecting the confidentiality of the entrants. I will present a more detailed analysis after I […]

Vision 2020 Closing Soon

Vision 2020: Closing Soon

31 December 2019 Filed Under: Calls for Entry, Vision 2020 2 Comments

Entries for my next touring exhibition Vision 2020 close at midnight on 10 January 2020 (Sydney time). That’s 10 days away. Been busy with the holidays? Haven’t started yet? Never fear! This morning my design wall was blank but I have made a start and you can too. Follow my progress over on Instagram. And […]

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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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