Celebrating Life Across the Spectrum
Robyn Eves of Woronora, New South Wales exhibits a playful sense of scale and the power of complementary colours in her textile work Leaf Life.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Sandra Champion of Hobart, Tasmania combines paper and hand stitch to create colour, texture and movement in her works. In Tingles on the Bibbulmun, Sandra was inspired by the colours of leaves as they deepened and matured, falling onto the Bibbulmun Track, Western Australia and creating a beautiful coloured carpet of deep yellows, greens and reds for walkers to enjoy. Read more about Sandra’a work in this interview.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Four of the Living Colour textile works highlight the wonder of life underwater. This is a detail of Living Treasure by Julie Harding of Toormina, New South Wales.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Five of the Living Colour textile works feature butterflies and/or insects. This is a detail of Consider the flowers of the Field by Christine Dowell of Toowoomba, Queensland.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Four of the works in the Living Colour exhibition feature birds. Colourful New Zealand by Mathea Daunheimer is inspired by the vibrant colours of the birds and foliage found in her adopted country.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Incandescence by Di Flint of Albany Creek, Queensland was created with fused cotton fabrics overlaid with multiple layers of organza that, appropriately enough, were then burned back to reveal living colour.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
The very first Living Colour! textile art work to reach the curator, in the cloth, was Madder & Friends by Catherine Gowthorpe of the United Kingdom. This piece is one of two plant dyed works in the exhibition. The principal dye used is madder, with smaller amounts of logwood and goldenrod. Fabrics include cotton, silk, repurposed linen and wool and each of the 160 squares is hand-embroidered.
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
I hope you have enjoyed the first Glimpse of Living Colour posts. These preview detail shots will be posted every other day until the premiere of the Living Colour exhibition at the Australasian Quilt Convention on 9 April. I have also set up the Living Colour Preview Gallery that will be updated weekly. Please share with your fellow textile enthusiasts.
Wattle Dancing is a leaf-printed work by Sue Dennis of Brisbane, Queensland. And, speaking of Brisbane in the spring, I am pleased to announce that Living Colour! will be on exhibition at the Brisbane Craft & Quilt Fair: 8-12 October 2014. Queenslanders, mark your calendar!
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. The blog posts are published every other day and the Preview Gallery will be updated weekly.
Suzanne Gummow of Adelaide, South Australia created Lotus. She remarks “..As a bearer of creation, the lotus flower holds a special place in mythology, in nature and in our lives. It symbolizes not only creation, but the timeless and continual process of birth and rebirth…”
Living Colour! will premiere at the Australasian Quilt Convention in Melbourne, 10-13 April 2014 . A Glimpse of Living Colour is a series of blog posts sharing preview detail shots of each of the selected works. Check back here for further updates.
