The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Kay Murray

What’s going on with this weather? is by Kay Murray of Eastwood, New South Wales and features Botanical gel plate printing.

Kay Murray is a textile practitioner, artist and educator. She has worked with both young people and adults for over 40 years. Her inspiration takes an experiential form, often based on places or events that she has encountered, particularly related to her early life on a working Merino property. Nature and the environment has provided layers of inspiration and lead to a concern with climate change and its effects on all aspects but especially food security and the decline of bees. Having experience with a range of textiles under the guidance of female family generations, and through tertiary studies in textiles, Kay is proficient in, and enjoys, many techniques including embroidery and quilting as means to express her ideas. Cloth colouration through dyeing, gel plate printing and deconstructed screen printing are amongst her preferred methods, often using the actual materials such as foliage to create her designs for printing. These techniques allow her to capture an idea and then enhance it with more traditional techniques with hand and machine embroidery, and quilting being familiar methods of embellishment. Kay is fully immersed her daily textile practice, creating a wide variety of functional and decorative textiles in her well equipped sewing room. She is a member of QuiltNSW, Eastwood Patchwork Quilters and ATASDA (Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design Association Inc). 

Follow Kay on Instagram: @stitchaday

 

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.