June 19th, 2023Golden textures quilt exhibition goes on show in Maryborough
Twenty-one art quilts from around Australia are finalists in a prestigious national award which has now gone on display at Maryborough’s Central Goldfields Art Gallery (pictured above) until 20 August 2023.
It is the 7th time that the biennial Golden Textures Contemporary Art Quilt Award has been presented by Central Goldfields Art Gallery after the inaugural Award was initiated by Maryborough art quilter Jenny Bacon and the then Gallery Manager, Kay Parkin as a homage to the region’s long connection with textile manufacturing and craft.
The exhibition brings together leading exponents of art quilting from around Australia with artists contributing work from Western Australia through to Tasmania. All of the art quilts have been created in the last three years and none have been publicly exhibited before. Central Goldfields Art Gallery is the sole venue presenting this remarkable exhibition of contemporary Australian art quilts.
Visitors will be surprised by the way artists continue to extend the boundaries of their art form. A wide of range of materials have been employed by artists from recycled materials including protective masks used widely during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic through to hand painted fabrics and cottons.
Whilst there was no theme requested for entry into the Award, interest in landscape, social commentary, beauty and abstraction are explored my multiple artists in different ways.
Robyn Cuthbertson’s entry titled Beneath is a free motion quilted silk that is embedded within 3 wooden, upright sculptures while Jackie Gorring’s entry titled CardyJump utilises found pieces of crochet and repurposed knitted materials in an art quilt that references the memories embodies in the materials once worn.
Artists included in the exhibition are: Anna Brown, Mandy Baker, Sandra Champion, Robyn Cuthbertson, Sue Dennis, Dianne Firth, Jan Frazer, Jackie Gorring, Lynne Hargreaves, Ronda Hazell, Judy Hooworth, Glenyce McGauchie, Jem Olsen, Beth Reid, Trevor Reid, Melanie Sampson, Greg Somerville, Caitlin Stewart, Linda Steele, Tania Tanti, Lisa Walton and Brenda Wiseman.
