Thursday 14 January 2021

Meet The New Quilt Artist: Margery Goodall

Name of Artwork: Beating the Blues

Margery Goodall works with stitched textiles and mixed media. She is inspired by the natural world and her urban environment. In 2020, she worked exclusively with found materials and waste.

Her work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas, and in the collection of the International Quilt Museum in USA. 

Most recently, her work was exhibited in Hanging by a Thread at the Holmes a Court gallery @ No10 and she was a finalist in the York Botanic Art Prize 2020 which selected work by artists in all Australian states.

She has convened juried textile exhibitions, open to both Australian and international artists in Tasmania, Victoria, and the ACT, while in WA she was convenor of the stitched and bound 2003 exhibition at Fremantle Art Centre. In 2020, she was joint-curator for selecting artworks for the Marjorie Coleman-Lyrical Stitch solo retrospective exhibition that exhibited at the Holmes a Court gallery @ No10 from 17 October to 28 November 2020.



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.

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