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AUSTRALIA WIDE EIGHT

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AUSTRALIA WIDE EIGHT 16 JUNE — 30 JULY

Exhibition Artists

Australia Wide Eight is a travelling exhibition organized by OZQN on tour nationally from July 2022 to August 2024 and as a virtual exhibition on the OZQN website. The exhibition is designed to showcase the talents of OZQN members, introduce members’ quilts to a wider audience, demonstrate the scope and variety of art quilt making and to publicize OZQN.

Click BLUE names for more information about the artist.

Australia Wide Eight Selection Panel

Lisa Walton is a textile artist who started with traditional quilt techniques but quickly developed the urge to break the rules. She creates her own fabrics for her artwork which she exhibits worldwide. Lisa is a past president of Studio Art Quilt Associates in the USA.

Cathy Jack Coupland is a textile artist whose work has evolved from using traditional quilt and embroidery techniques to creating fully machine stitched works covering the entire surface. Cathy won the Ozquilt Network Award of Excellence in Art Quilt Australia 2021.

Sophie O’Brien is Head of Curatorial & Learning for the new Bundanon Art Museum near Nowra NSW. She oversees a diverse range of the arts and artists through Bundanon’s residential program which is open to all Australian artists.

SPLINTER CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS — LET COLOUR SPEAK

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Colour is a powerful communication tool and can be used to signal action, influence mood …. Even physiological reactions.

 In truth, colour is perception related to light landing on a surface. How much of the light is absorbed or reflected is what we call colour and how it bounces can have quite an effect on our emotions.

Artists have used this knowledge for hundreds of years. They know there is passion, power and pride in reds and oranges and that pastel blues and greens have a calming, restful effect. They know that some colours can cancel each other out and create warm or cool greys. Bright yellow creates a happy atmosphere while you can have the brooding  browns, greys  and black or the purity of white which can create a feeling that everything is clean and pristine.

This exhibition is the result of the Splinter Contemporary Artists being given the task of using colour however they wanted to.

PAPERWORK

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Paper has to be one of civilization’s greatest inventions.  Paper has become an essential in the daily lives of almost all people around the world. Paperwork helps us record our economy.

  And as a creative medium, paper is low cost, versatile and abundant.  Its versatility is one reason for its popularity in art and craft. It can be used wet, as in Papier Mache, or dry, as with Paper Cutting, rolled for Quilling, folded to form Origami shapes, layered as in Decoupage and Collage or simply used in sheets on which we draw, marble, print or paint.

If you make your own paper, its tactile quality makes its manufacture and use a sensuous experience.

In this exhibition, Paperwork, Splinter Contemporary Artists are ‘paperworking’ their own magic.