Meet The New Quilt Artist: Sandra Champion

Name of artwork: summer inferno #5

The bushfires in Australia last summer were catastrophic.

Landscape left blackened and lifeless.

Only piles of melted corrugated roofing and rubble remain where homes once stood.

Garden paths lead nowhere.

Everywhere there is devastation.

 

Name of artwork: summer inferno #8

A huge wave of orange came down the mountain.

The cataclysmic bush fire in the World Heritage forests left blackened trees and millions of dead animals.

It is impossible to comprehend.

Rusted, painted, oiled, collaged, patched. Hand and machine stitched and fused to a silk foundation. Machine quilted. Vintage kimono silks, vintage papers, corrugated cardboard, perle cotton, repurposed dressmakers pattern tissue, silk.

Sandra Champion online: Webpage 

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.