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Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting: Brenda Gael Smith

Creating at Copacabana

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Zig Zag Zoom: 6-8am Friday 10 October (Sydney time)

Join Brenda for a live and interactive online presentation.  Brenda will show you 5+ different methods to create zig zag lines and shapes – guiding you step-by-step through colour, composition and construction. 

This is a demonstration presentation rather than a hands-on workshop.  You will receive a comprehensive handout and 30-days access to the recording afterwards.

Book your place with Brenda

Other Upcoming Workshops

Learn with me! I will be teaching the following workshops and events. Book directly with the organiser:

  • Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, 26 February to 1 March 2026, at the Hampton Roads Convention Center, Virginia USA
  • TEXTplosion! at the Modern Quilt Show Australia, Saturday 14 March 2026
  • Australasian Quilt Convention 2026: 9-12 April at the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

On Exhibition

See my artwork in:

  • Art Quilt Australia 2025: presented by Ozquilt Network at Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Lilydale, Victoria 9 July to 13 October 2025
  • Golden Textures Contemporary Art Quilt Award 2025: at Central Goldfields Art Gallery from 28 June to 12 October 2025
  • Dare to Differ 2025: at Marion Cultural Centre, Oaklands, South Australia 19 September to 19 October 2025
  • Our World: Community Gallery, Gosford Regional Gallery, 9.30-4pm daily, 30 October to 5 November 2025. Opening event Friday 31 October from 4.30 – 6.30. All welcome.
  • Ahead of the Curve: Performance Arts Culture Cessnock, NSW 29 November 2025 – 31 January 2026

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Brenda Gael Smith
brenda@serendipitypatchwork.com.au

PO Box 131, Avoca Beach
NSW 2251 Australia

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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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