Celebrating Life Across the Spectrum
Ten Living Colour! works are featured in Issue 68 of Quilters Companion magazine that is available in both print and digital formats. Congratulations to:
You are invited to the first gallery outing of Living Colour! at:
Bunker Cartoon Gallery
John Champion Way, Coffs Harbour, NSW
8 August – 13 September 2014
Gallery Hours: 10am-4pm Monday-Saturday
There is an official opening at 6pm on Friday, 8 August 2014. Please share this invitation with friends and textile artists on the Far North Coast.
Five New Zealand-based artists are represented in the Living Colour! exhibition:
Mathea and Anne’s textile works are featured in Issue 88 of New Zealand Quilter, a fantastic magazine that showcases and reviews New Zealand quiltmaking with a small but thoughtful selection of projects.
Issue 88 also highlights the blog and podcasts of Charlotte Scott including this blog post: Summer Dragonfly- the process of creating a Living Colour quilt.
By the way, Anne Jolly previously had work selected for the travelling exhibition Beneath the Southern Sky. Isolation, Anne’s striking felted work depicting the southern high country, caught the eye of author Linda Seward and is included in her latest book The Ultimate Guide to Art Quilting (affiliate link). Congratulations Anne!
This week Issue No 165 of Down Under Quilts magazine goes on sale. It features Living Colour works by the following artists:
With able assistance from Glenda W, Living Colour! was hung at the Sydney Quilt Show in record time. The new exhibition venue at Glebe Island has fantastic natural lighting and the collection shines:
Catching the ferry back to Darling Harbour was a breeze and I got to enjoy a new view of the city.
There are various free bus and ferry options, see this link for more information.
I will be presenting a curator floor talk at 1.30pm for each day of the show. Everyone is welcome to join me!
Volume 23, Issue 11 of Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazine goes on sale today. It features an article on Living Colour! highlighting the following works:
I am very excited to announce that the US tour of Living Colour! has been expanded to now include three AQS QuiltWeek events in the second half of 2015 (that’s NEXT year!):
Look out for the colourful July/August 2014 issue of Machine Quilting Unlimited that is available in both digital and print formats. This issue includes:
There are also some additional photos in the Web Extras section online.
Mathea Daunheimer shares how she created her textile work Colourful New Zealand:
Living Colour! next tours to the Sydney Quilt Show, Craft & Quilt Fair from 9-13 July 2014 with a curator floor talk daily at 1.30pm. The Sydney Exhibition Centre venue has relocated to Glebe Island but there are FREE ferries and buses from Darling Harbour (10 minutes), Central Station (25 minutes) and Circular Quay (30 minutes). Click this infographic or check out the Craft & Quilt Fair website for more information.
