Meet The New Quilt Artist: Anna Brown

Anna graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 1977, and has been creating art quilts since the 1990s.

Anna was exhibition secretary for the Quilters’ Guild (now QuiltNSW), and then joint coordinator of The New Quilt with Judy Hooworth, jurying the Green Show in 1997, the sixth New Quilt exhibition at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum. Anna has also been on the Ozquilt Network committee as membership secretary.

Anna is primarily inspired by nature, her immediate environment in the Great Lakes area of New South Wales, where she has lived for eleven years. Photographs and sketches of the local flora are the starting point in the creation of her abstract quilts. She works up an appliqued design on a whole cloth, then cuts into it and repositions the fabric pieces into a new pieced and appliqued image. Her work is largely intuitive and experimental, and she enjoys all parts of the creative process.

Anna has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, including Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Centre, New York, and Quilt National 2017, 2019 and 2021, Ohio USA. Her quilts have been featured in many books and magazines around the world. Anna is represented in many private collections in Australia, U.K. and the USA. She also has a quilt in the International Quilt Museum, Lincoln Nebraska.

Name of artwork: Canopy 18 Burning

Anna Brown online: Website 

The New Quilt, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 5 February – 11 April 2021. 

Gallery hours: Open 6 days a week Monday, Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm Saturday-Sunday 10am-3pm. Closed on Tuesday and public holidays.