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.

 

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.

The New Quilt 2024 Preview: Alison Muir

Alison Muir of Cremorne, New South Wales created 'disillusion' a protest as a commentary on capitalism and corporate greed. She writes:

The devastating images of Antarctic glaciers collapsing into the sea around the frozen landmass are the inspiration for the work. The pale indigo blue of an expiring vat and the density of cotton sheeting allowed these two materials to further develop the concept into a larger than human scale wall image.

View more of Alison's artwork at: www.muirandmuir.com.au

Follow Alison on Instagram at: @textile_expressions

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 Miglietti

Do you really need this? by Jill Miglietti  of Frankston South, Victoria is made from torn, glued, stitched and stitched privacy envelopes. 

Using an array of fibre and textile techniques, Jill constructs two- and three-dimensional artworks that portray her responses to the physical, external world and her inner, emotional being. Her work expands ideas about memory, identity and the passing of time by manipulating materials and forms into embodied narratives that feel instinctive and familiar. The processes of reduction, abstraction and repetition build surfaces and structures that evoke the essence of place, of lived experience and of memory. Physical and metaphorical layers are assembled from cloth along with found objects, text and other media to expand the dynamic space between two and three dimensions. With work in public and private collections, Miglietti has been exhibiting since completing a Diploma of Textile Art in 2012. Her work has also appeared in Australian and international publications. 

View more of Jill's artwork at: 

• www.jillmiglietti.com
• Facebook artist page
• Instagram: @jillmigliettitextileart 
   

 

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.