Born
1952, Perth, WA
Qualifications
1973 Graduate Diploma of
Education - WASTC (now Edith Cowan University)
1972 Associateship in Fine Art - WAIT (now Curtin University)
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2005 'Common Threads',
Belger Arts Center, Kansas City,
USA
2005 'In Transit', George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
NZ
2003 'Memoirs and Mementos' Heathcote Museum and Gallery, WA
2002 'Reverence and Ritual', Crafwest Gallery, WA, with Chunghie Lee,
Korea
2001 Exhibition at Sturt Gallery, Mittagong NSW with Jan Downes
1999-2002 'Common Threads’,
touring UK, Japan, New Zealand and Australia
1998 ‘Landmarks’, Crafts Council Gallery, Darwin, NT
1996, 1989 'Spring in the Valley' Festival, Evans and Tate Winery
1990 Touring Exhibition, Aust. High Commissions, Kuala Lumpur and
Singapore
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 'Common Goods',
Melbourne Museum,
VIC
2006 'Expressions: The Wool Quilt', National Wool Museum,
Geelong
VIC
2006 'Stitched and Bound' Fremantle Arts Centre, WA
2002-2005, 'Pojagi and Beyond', Fairfield Gallery NSW, Texas USA, and
touring Australia
2003 'Pushing the Surface', Coshocton Museum, Ohio
USA
2002 'Earth Tones', Brunnier Art Museum,
USA
2001,2002 Invitational
exhibit, international textile design exhibition, Taegu, Korea
1998-2001 Invitational exhibits, annual International Quilt Exhibitions,
Seoul, Korea
1991-2001 9 national juried quilt surveys, Manly Gallery, NSW
1999 ‘Quilt Art Australia’, Grobenzell, Germany
1998 ‘The World Quilt Japan’, invitational exhibition, Tokyo
1998 International Quilt Week Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan
1997 ‘Quilt National’ international juried touring exhibition, USA
1996 ‘Australian Splendour’ touring exhibition, United Kingdom and
Holland
1996 ‘International Quilt Week’, Yokohama, Japan
1995 ‘Australia Dreaming’, Nagoya, Japan
1995,6,7 Saitama State Gallery of Modern Art, Japan
1992 'Australian Perspectives', Australian Craftworks Gallery, NSW
1991, 92 'New Wave Quilt’, International Invitational Travelling
Exhibitions, Japan
1991-1993 'Threads of Journeys', international tour (Dept Foreign Affairs
and Trade)
1990 Tamworth National Fibre Exhibition
Selected Awards
2006 Artflight Grant to
participate in the Common Goods project, part of the Commonwealth Games
Arts Festival,
VIC
2004 Established Artist New Work grant, Australia Council Strategy
Fund
2000 Grant to assist tour
of ‘Common Threads’ exhibition to Japan, ArtsWA
1997 Churchill Fellowship
1995 Grant to attend exhibition in Japan, WA Dept Arts
1994 Fellow of the Crafts Council of WA
1993 Scholarship, Quilters' Guild NSW
Selected Publications
2006 'Common Goods',
Crafts Council of Victoria,
VIC
2004 'Surface Design Journal', Winter,
USA
2000 ‘Quilting
Masterclass’ Katharine Guerrier, Quarto, UK
2000 Quilts Japan, August
1997 ‘Contemporary Quilts: Quilt National 97’, Lark Books, USA
1996 ‘The Quilter’, United Kingdom, Issue 67, Summer
1995 ‘88 Leaders In The Quilt World Today’ Nihon Vogue, Japan
1992 The Crafts Movement in Australia; A History
1992 'New WaveQuilt II', Setsuko Segawa, Japan/USA
Selected Collections
Tamworth Gallery,
NSW
Lotteries Commission of
WA
Curtin University
Brightwater Group
The Quilters' Guild Inc, NSW
Private collections, Great Britain, USA, Korea, Australia
Public/Community Arts Projects
2005 Gowrie Migrant
Women's Group (community art
project)
2001 Heathcote Cultural Centre, WA (public art
commission)
2001 Armadale Hospital,
WA (public art
commission)
1999 Lotteries House, Joondalup, WA (public art
commission)
1997,95 Law Court and Tourism Commission, Katherine NT (community art
projects)
Selected Workshops, Lectures and
Residencies
2006 Common Goods
international arts Residency, Ballarat Art Gallery,
VIC
2001 Lectures and
workshops, Britain and France
2000 Lectures and workshops, Korea and Japan
1999 Workshops, National Patchwork Championships, London UK
1997, 1995 Arts residencies and workshops, Katherine, Northern Territory
1991-2006 Lectures and workshops in UK, USA, Japan, South East Asia, NZ,
Australia
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