The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Margery Goodall

Future Proof Suite (quartet) by Margery Goodall reflects a traditional formal garden design and is designed to raise awareness of how our consumer choices affect the natural world.

Margery is a prize-winning Western Australian textile artist whose work has been exhibited in selective exhibitions in Australia and internationally since 1999, including the Alice Craft Award, the City of Joondalup Art Prize and the York Botanic Art Prize (2020, 2023). Margery has a longstanding creative practice focusing on stitched cloth, with a more recent addition of assemblages of found objects and waste materials. 

Since 2020 a focus of Margery’s work has been in response to the increasing fragility of the Australian landscape, and the challenges around use of packaging and subsequent disposal of packaging materials. While Margery continues to stitch scraps and discarded fabrics, she currently transforms waste materials, such as plastic bottle lids and plastic packaging, into stitched works which reflect on the web of connections between our relationships with modern living and the natural environment. Follow Margery on Instagram at:  @margery.goodall.about_art

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.