Meet The New Quilt Artist: Lorraine Parker

Name of Artwork: Rust and Decay

Lorraine’s background and training is in education. She also has a degree in Behavioural Science. She started her professional career as a high school teacher in what is now called Technology and Applied Studies. Textiles and Design was part of this and an area that she loved with a passion. A goal in her teaching was to facilitate creativity and innovation in others, to inspire confidence and a willingness to experiment with colour, texture, materials and techniques.

Her path led to lecturing and tutoring in Textile Innovation at the Australian Catholic University. This was followed by contracts to write the Textile Design and Textiles Science and Innovation units for Southern Cross University teacher training.

This included tutoring many workshops with SCU students. She has also tutored for ATASDA, NCEATA, regional quilting groups and The ASG National Convention.

Her creative yen has been fed by her love of nature, travel and photography. Her work has been published in Down Under Textiles and American Patchwork and Quilting.

Exhibitions of her work include Timeless Textiles Newcastle, The Rainforest Centre Dorrigo, Coffs Harbour’s Bunker Gallery, Woolgoolga’s Art Gallery and Macleay Valley Arts Council at Gladstone (NSW). Whenever a piece of her work sold she has a sense of joy as well as loss.

She is a qualified Quilt Judging Course for the Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles.

Lorraine Parker online: Webpage  Facebook  

 

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.