Art washes away for the soul, the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso
What I Do
My work starts with blank canvases, so to speak, blank, white fabrics or fibres. These come to life when I add colours and texture, whether it be by dyeing, printing, or stencilling, or drawing tight stitches of Shibori to give exquisite dimensionality. To complete the picture, the addition of machine or hand stitching.
The inspiration to create movement in textiles, is in all things I see in everyday life, in nature, and often in man made structures. There is an inherent beauty in most things, if you know where to look. I know that I have succeeded in a piece of work when, the visitor to my studio stretches out their hands to touch and experience its tactility and drink in the wonder of the colours.
“Textile art imbues the soul with colour and texture”
EXHIBITION History
”Amongst Friends” Greater Shepparton Art exhibition 2007
“Good Nature” Exhibition” Red Earth Gallery Mooroolbark 2008
“Pivot” Exhibition Red Earth Gallery Mooroolbark 2009
“Red” Exhibition Red Earth Gallery Mooroolbark 2010
"Yarra Valley Open Studios" Program 2010
“Felternative” Exhibition Town Hall Gallery Hawthorn Victorian Feltmakers 2011
“Cocoon, joint exhibition 1st year students Diploma of Textile Art 2012
“Matchbox”, joint exhibition 1st year students Diploma of Textile Art 2012
“Seasons” ,joint exhibition 1st year students Diploma of Textile Art 2012
“Cafe” Bank St Café Theme 2013
“Xtinction Xhibition” Three Stories Art Space Healesville 2013
”Adorned” Manningham Gallery Doncaster 2 as part of Stitch Theorem Textile Arts Group 2014
“Elaborate’ Graduate exhibition from Whitehorse Institute, Tacit Contemporary Art Gallery, Stitch Theorem Textile Arts Group ‘ 2014
“The Sojourner’ Epworth Hospital Oncology Ward, 2014
Yarra Valley Open Studios program 2014.
“HelmArt Project”, Coombe, Melba Estate Yarra Valley 2015
‘Seasons” Mount Waverley Community House, A Celebration of Quilts & Textile Arts (Rotary Club of Glen Waverley Stitch Theorem Textile Arts Group 2015
“Identity” exhibition Stitch Theorem Textile Arts ,Whitehorse Artspace, Box Hill 2015
“Currents of Fancy” Exhibition Red Earth Gallery Mooroolbark 2015
“Fantasy, Faerie Tales & Myths” Nerissa Box and Yarra Valley Artists 2023