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28 December 2017 By Brenda Smith

High Country Lupins #4

I acknowledge that I live and create on the land of the Darkinjung and Guringai people and recognise their continuing connection to this place. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all First Nations people.

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Brenda Gael Smith
Contemporary Textile Art

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PO Box 131, Avoca Beach
NSW 2251 Australia

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On exhibition

9 November 2025 – 31 January 2026 Performance Arts Culture Cessnock
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
26 February – 1 March 2026 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival – Hampton, Virginia
Minimalism

I love flowers 🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼💐🥀🪷 Here is a selection of flower works from my portfolio in response to the @themqg #MQGQuiltSpotlight

💕 Karkalla [aka Pigface or Ice Plant]
🧡 Flourish! Orange Gum Blossom
💜 Thrive - Matchstick Bromeliad
💙 Blue Delphiniums
💜 Morning Glory
💛 Lantana
♥️Vibrance - Tip Toe through the Tulips
💚 Wild Lupins

Many of these pieces will be on display at the Australasian Quilt Convention 2026 presented by @craft.events_ in Melbourne from 9-12 April as part of my Rajah Award exhibit - Driven to Abstraction.
#aqc #aqc2026 #brendagaelsmithart

It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026

It’s happening. Pent Up is off to #quiltcon2026 and so am I 😍 After many years of submitting, this is my first QuiltCon acceptance and it will be my first time attending in person. I look forward to seeing many fine quilts in the cloth, meeting friends old and new and generally revelling in the energy of this exciting event. Let me know if I will see you there too.
#brendagaelsmithart #australianmodernquilts @themqg

My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun an

My artworks Desire Lines #9: Here Comes the Sun and Desire Lines #3: Running Hot & Cold feature in Ahead of the Curve, an invitational exhibition of Australian modern quilts curated by Tara Glastonbury now showing at the @pacc_gallery Cessnock until 31 January 2026. FREE entry. Gallery hours:
* Monday to Friday | 9am – 4.30pm
* Saturday | 10am – 2.30pm

I am grateful to Tara for the prompt to create a new artwork and to put an older piece out into the world again. They glow in the gallery space. I also have some smaller textile sketches available for sale in the gift shop.

Here Comes the Sun 85x136cm
You can’t outrun or bypass grief. Getting ahead of the curve is illusory. The only way is through. Even in the depths of loss, moments of brightness appear. These glimmers remind us that light is never fully extinguished. Darkness and radiance are not opposites but companions, entwined in the human experience. This work is both a lament and an invocation: an acknowledgment of pain, and a quiet turning toward the light that eventually breaks through. Such is the duality of grief.

Running Hot & Cold (37x75cm) explores the volatile spectrum of emotion—where passion ignites and ambivalence cools. Through shifting tones and contrasting forms, this work reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, embodying the unstable rhythm of feeling too much and not enough.
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Join me for my new TEXTplosion! workshop at the Mo

Join me for my new TEXTplosion! workshop at the Modern Quilt Show Australia from 9.45am-12.45pm on Saturday 14 March 2026 in Petersham Sydney. Book online on the MQSA wesbite via @modernquiltshowau

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This 3-hour workshop explores harnessing the power of paper collage to design one-of-a-kind abstract quilts. This workshop explores: fragmenting text; tools to isolate and highlight areas of interest; playing with enlargement, exaggeration and distortion; converting 2-tone designs into colour; converting paper collage designs into fabric compositions; and digital palette generation tools.

#brendagaelsmithworkshop #TEXTplosion! #modernquiltshowau #moderquiltshowau2026

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