This is part of series of blog posts about the creation of Seachange: Whale Tracks that has been selected for the Studio Art Quilt Associates* global exhibition Season After Season (on tour 2019-2022). The first post considered Design and Fabric Selection. This post is all about construction and assembly. The final post will focus on […]
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Season After Season: Winter Solstice
There is something reassuring about the patterns and rhythms of life, season after season. It’s June – the time of year that I spend a lot of time gazing out over Allagai Bay, binoculars at the ready. I am no David Attenborough but here’s video evidence of the spectacle of migrating humpback whales. And even […]
Season After Season: Follow My Progress: Part 1
This is part of series of blog posts about the creation of Seachange: Whale Tracks that has been selected for the Studio Art Quilt Associates* global exhibition Season After Season (on tour 2019-2022). The post considers Design and Fabric Selection. The second post is all about Construction and Assembly. The final post will focus on […]
Watching Grass Grow
The current project on my design wall is intended as a potential entry for the SAQA exhibition Concrete & Grasslands that opens for registration from 1-30 September 2015.* (If I can get it done in time, I might also submit it for the Gosford Art Prize that closes on 14 September.) The Concrete & Grasslands […]
Keep It Simple
After the complexity of making High Country Lupins #3, I have felt an urge to simplify my work. Recently, I have been exploring pared back lines, fields of colour and the design principle of economy. And guess what I am discovering anew? Elegant simplicity is hard. Really hard. From a visual perspective, every line and […]
Staying True
True Blue, the theme of the 2015 AQC Challenge, was announced months ago. If you are not familiar with this term, according to the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University, it has its origins in the medieval period when the colour blue was the symbol of loyalty, constancy, faithfulness, and truth; does […]