The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Tania Tanti

Today we highlight Get Down In Green by Tania Tanti that incoporates painting, free motion embroidery and quilting.

As a contemporary artist specializing in textile art, Tania utilizes a diverse range of mediums such as dyeing, painting, thread painting, and stitching to construct my pieces. She is particularly drawn to bold and contrasting colors, allowing shapes, characters, and imaginary landscapes to organically emerge and intertwine within my artworks. Occasionally, a glimpse into her thoughts on life can be found, often conveyed with a touch of humor. 

Tania's objective is to challenge the conventional perception of quilting and to encourage others to appreciate the uniqueness, excitement, and intricacy inherent in textile works. The countless hours, honed skills, and challenges faced while working with textiles as a medium are not widely recognized, and she believes it is crucial to emphasize in our modern era, the part that the textile medium plays in our contemporary art space and the distinctiveness of such unique artful creations. See more of Tania's artwork at:

• www.taniatanti.com.au
• Facebook: colorcodeddreams
• Instagram: @tania_tanti_artist 
  

 

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

 

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Tamara Stunnell

Tamara Stunnell of Moonee Ponds, Victoria created Still Life in response to the Modern Quilt Guild's (MQG) 2024 Super Scrappy Challenge. Many fabrics have been used to make the quilt including recycled cotton work shirts, modern prints, and solids.

Tamara’s quilting journey started when she saw a magazine cover featuring a quilt of rectangles in red and yellow fabrics. In the last couple of years Tamara has started to branch out into creating her own quilt designs, usually in response to MQG design challenges. Tamara has been a member of Melbourne Modern Quilt Guild since 2016 and the President for several years. She has had quilts at Quiltcon 2023 and 2024, Victorian Quilters Showcase 2023, the ‘To There and Back’ quilt show in Deniliquin 2023 and MPavilion 2023-2024. See more of Tamara's artwork on Instagram at: @tstunnell

 

 

 

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Brenda Gael Smith

 Forza Vitale: Breathe by Brenda Gael Smith is inspired by the ocean view at Copacabana and the news of a life-changing diagnosis.

Brenda creates textile paintings and sketches made from a rich palette of hand-dyed fabrics complemented by extensive, textural stitching demonstrating the transformative power of stitch. Abstraction is a persistent and insistent force. Working improvisationally, she captures the essence of her subjects to impart a sense of wonder of the natural world and a strong affinity to place. See more of Brenda's artwork at:

• www.brendagaelsmith.com
• Facebook: Serendipity Patchwork & Quilting
• Instagram: @brendagaelsmith 
  

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

 

 

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Jane Rundle

 Nurturing the Pod is an improvisationally pieced quilt by Jane Rundle of Wakerley, Queensland.

Jane has been quilting since 1980, originally making traditional quilts, she now concentrates on constructing original art and modern improvisational quilts, some often with a twist on traditional design. Early traditional patchwork classes gave her a solid base to be able to construct anything she sets her mind to. Often, new quilts start with a piece of fabric on the design wall, and grow from there, mostly the quilt tells her what comes next! She is inspired by colour, shape and of course the texture of machine quilting. Machine quilting is her passion, she can often be found just doodling machine quilting designs. See more of Jane's artwork on Instagram at: @janemadlyquilting

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Jill Rumble

Jill Rumble of Erina created Petrichor from wool blend fabric, machine and embroidery threads. Growing up in the country has always influenced Jill's creativity having fibre, colour, line and stitch as a means of expression.

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

 

 

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Lisa Reid

 Far Meadow by Lisa Reid is made from linen. silk. cotton and recycled fabrics.

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.

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

 

 

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Val Nadin

A Fractured Landscape - After the Flood by Val Nadin considers the destructive power of nature and, in particular, when the Nepean River burst its banks in 2022 and inundated the Yarramundi bridge.

Val’s interest in quilts began in 1980, while she was living in Singapore. She developed her skills and technique in both traditional and art quilt-making over 40 years. She has taught many classes, judged exhibitions, and worked on Valuation Committee for 25 years. Many of her works are in Australian-themed series, for example, ‘Convicts & Soldiers’, ‘Bushfires’, ‘Drought’, and more recently, ‘Floods’. Val’s quilts have been exhibited across Australia and internationally. Her favourite techniques include strip piecing, and the inclusion of her own hand-dyed fabrics and found objects such as teabags, plastics, and beads. She is currently working on a series of small quilts, using fabrics identified with specific cultures, such as Australia’s First Nations, Indonesia, France, England, and Africa.

 

Plan an art excursion!  

The New Quilt 2024, on exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW from 4 May to 23 June 2024. Official opening and awards ceremony from 6pm on Friday 3 May 2024. RSVP to the gallery.