The New Quilt 2024: Entry Form Now Open!

Call for Entries

QuiltNSW recognises the quilt medium as an art form and is committed to providing opportunities for textile artists to share their artwork in a gallery setting.  The New Quilt online entry form is now open and closes at 5pm on Thursday 1 February 2024 (Sydney time). 

The New Quilt 2024, a juried survey exhibition showcasing the art of quilting, will be on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in Windsor, NSW from 3 May – 23 June 2024. The selectors are textile artists Ruth de Vos and Fiona Gavens together with a representative of Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. 

Please share this announcement with others. The New Quilt is open to all artists resident in Australia regardless of whether they belong to QuiltNSW. (Current QuiltNSW members get a discount on entry fees.) All selected entries are eligible for consideration for two new prizes:

• The New Quilt Prize $1500
• The New Quilt Prize Runner Up $500

Note:

• artists may enter 1 or 2 quilts. Only 1 work per artist may be selected;
• there is no prescribed theme – submit your best work reflecting your creative practice;
• a quilt means stitched and layered materials using any technique; and
• 2–D, 3–D, installation work, ceiling hung work, work on stretcher bars and framed work are eligible subject to certain size restrictions.

Download Conditions of Entry or see www.quiltnsw.com for more information 

Inquiries to: thenewquilt@quiltnsw.com

QuiltNSW 40th Anniversary Publication

 

To celebrate our 40th anniversary, QuiltNSW has published a full colour, catalogue-style softcover book featuring images of ALL of the quilts in the main members’ exhibition of the Sydney Quilt Show 2022.

The quilt photos are arranged by category across 120 pages with 4 quilts per page. 

Order online by 30 April 2023.

Call for Entries: The New Quilt 2024

 

QuiltNSW is excited that The New Quilt is returning to Hawkesbury Regional Gallery,, Windsor, NSW from 3 May to 23 June 2024. This juried survey exhibition, showcasing the art of quilting in a gallery setting, is open to any textile artist resident in Australia whether or not they are QuiltNSW members.

Note:

• artists may enter 1 or 2 quilts. Only 1 work per artist may be selected;
• there is no prescribed theme – submit your best work reflecting your creative practice;
• a quilt means stitched and layered materials using any technique; and
• 2–D, 3–D, installation work, ceiling hung work, work on stretcher bars and framed work are
  eligible subject to certain size restrictions.

 Download The New Quilt 2024: Conditions of Entry

The New Quilt Prizes

All selected entries are eligible for consideration for two new prizes:

• The New Quilt Prize ($1500)
• The New Quilt Prize Runner Up ($500).

Selectors: Ruth de Vos, Fiona Gavens and a representative of Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.

Key dates

• 1 April 2023: open call for entries with conditions of entry
• 1 October 2023: online entry form opens
• 1 February 2024: online entry form closes\6 March 2024: notification of selection by e–mail
• 18 April 2024: final date for delivery of artwork
• 3 May 2024: exhibition opens
• 23 June 2024: exhibition closes
• 24 June 2024: dispatch works back to artists