Category: Textiles
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Venue 6: Valerie Swanson
Valerie’s quilts are often created from used fabrics and range from traditional machine piecing to hand quilting and appliqué. A quilt is a conduit for stories conveyed through materials, colour and stitching. Quilting has become the central focus of her textile art journey.
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Venue 6: Emily Swanson
Emily, has been quilting since 2001. Her style could be described as “traditional, with a modern twist” and often features bright colours. She designs, pieces and machine quilts all her own work. Her latest work experiments with collage, free-motion embroidery and free-style curves, as well as three-dimensional pieces.
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Venue 9: Jeanette Rankin
Jeanette is a Textile Artist and Printmaker specialising in hand weaving and lino printing, creating bespoke functional and decorative pieces. She takes inspiration from streetscapes, gardens, and beautiful and rugged landscapes. Jeanette combines a love of bushwalking, travel and photography to source material for new artworks and delights in transforming her photos into prints or…
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Venue 9: Lee-Anne Douglas
Lee-Anne is inspired by her beautiful surroundings here in the Australian bush, and also the seaside. She occasionally works from photographs, but most often her artwork originates from her own imagination which she intuitively builds on to create each piece. She predominately works with up-cycled fabric, threads, paints and embellishments.
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Venue 4: Miriam Lee
Miriam has been making Teddy Bears and other soft toys for over 25 years. She runs classes in several prisons helping inmates to make toys for their children. She also makes Bears for donation to people suffering dementia. She uses fur fabric, handmade timber discs and safety eyes and noses.
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Venue 17: Pam Farey
Pam – originally from Geelong, creates her art and photography from Peacock Cottage situated in the main street of Linton. She delves in varied mediums including; photography, painting; including murals, felt making, paper mâché, print making and short video making. Her colourful paintings are varied, often incorporating nature, creatures and fantasy.
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Venue 18: Maggie McDermott
Maggie works under the name ‘Raggle Taggle’. She is a folk artist and hand makes rustic earlier times playthings, miniatures and adornments from available discarded, forgotten, forlorn and found objects. She ages the pieces in a timeworn style using paint effects, stencils and found trinkets as embellishments.
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Venue 4: Cris Boerner
Cris has enjoyed a lifetime of textile creativity and now she is actively laying the foundation for a Holistic Integrated Creative Arts Therapy (HICAT) practice, dedicated to providing transformative workshops and counselling services.
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Venue 18: Rosie Grundell
Rosie is a mixed media artist using mostly paper clay, recycled fabrics and other found items. She is inspired by the natural world, folklore and history.
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Venue 7: Lisa G Hunter
Along with abstract landscape paintings in acrylics, mono-prints on paper and fabric, Lisa’s layered mixed media art will be displayed. This year’s exhibition includes ekphrastic poetry. Lisa’s studio is set in the Dereel bushland.
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Sally Hare: “Happy Hare” Textile Artist
Sally Hare is a member of GP Arts Inc. and we want to let you know about her exhibition at ‘The Space – Gallery + Workshops’ in Geelong. Call in and support Sally if you are in the region.
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Golden Plains Arts Trail Gallery 3 – Dereel
Dereel has 4 venues and seven artists participating in the Golden Plains Arts Trail. You will find everything from photography, textiles, hand made books, and more. Check the artist pages for details.
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