The New Quilt 2024 features Stripes and Struts 2, a double-sided work by Anita Brown.
Anita has been quilting for 26 years and comes from a background of drawing and printmaking. She started her first quilt in 1998 and has finished almost 100.
In 2016 she joined Sydney Modern Quilt Guild and has been president for the last few years. Her practice has changed over the years, but quilting has always been paramount to the design of her quilts and she uses a combination of machine and hand quilting. Anita also likes to reflect the top design on the back of the quilt and has started to stitch on the back which does not go through to the front.
It has always been important to her to design her own quilts and to keep progressing with both skills and designs, and she sees quilting as drawing with thread. In an age of computerised machines and a myriad of tools, she thinks that making a quilt totally herself which is reflective of her skills is an important message that “hand made really still matters”.
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.
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