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Evergreen © 2011 30x30cm

Regrowth © 2012 195x95cm

Forest © 2013 70x70cm

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Brenda Gael Smith
Contemporary Textile Art

brenda@brendagaelsmith.com

PO Box 4033, Copacabana
NSW 2251 Australia

Tel: +61 412530190

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On exhibition

15 October 2020 – 9 January 2021: Schweinfurth Art Center NY
Quilts=Art=Quilts 2020
2-4 October 2020: Taupo Quiltmakers Exhibition
Aqua Colour Challenge 2020
31 October – 30 November 2020 Belconnen Arts Centre
Australia Wide Seven

Join me for a live, IN PERSON! workshop at @berryq

Join me for a live, IN PERSON! workshop at @berryquiltandco on the weekend of 21 and 22 November 2020. I developed this workshop especially for students looking to stretch their creative muscles and to explore abstraction in concept and practice. Learn how to create pieces abstract compositions drawn from reality. Working from a personal source of inspiration found in nature or place, learn the basics through observation, reflection, colour, line, shape and repetition. All the details on the @berryquiltandco website. reserve your place. Book directly with Sharon at the shop.
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#brendagaelsmithworkshop #driventoabstraction #abstractionfromreality #learnwithBrenda #brendagaelsmithteacher #berryabstractions

If you’re visiting Gosford Regional Gallery to v

If you’re visiting Gosford Regional Gallery to view the Gosford Art Prize 2020, be sure to allow time to take in the adjoining Edogawa Japanese gardens. Catch the iris while you can. 💜💕💚
#gosfordregionalgallery #edogawagardens #gosfordartprize #gosfordartprize2020 #iris

@ozquiltnetwork invites you to “Lifting the Quil

@ozquiltnetwork invites you to “Lifting the Quilt Ceiling” a special presentation by @zanzibert at 3pm Friday 30 October at @belcoarts in conjunction with the opening of Australia Wide Seven.
+ live digital presentation for Ozquilt Network members only. Register your interest on the OZQN website.
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Not a member? Join OZQN today for a membership period ending 31 December 2021.
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Dr Sam Bowker is the Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture for Charles Sturt University with a deep understanding of the art and craft of quilting. Here is a summary of his presentation.
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Contemporary quiltmaking is a dynamic and versatile field that engages the colonial past and global present, respects the agency of Indigenous Australian cultures, and sustains sophisticated and inclusive debate. Quilting generates a thriving ecosystem of critical and inclusive practice that is simultaneously competitive and empowering, yet it has been curiously overlooked by Australian art journals and galleries.

This presentation argues for the inclusion of quiltmaking across all forms of contemporary creative practice and presents the case for how this sector would benefit from engaging critically and actively with the cutting edge of Australian quiltmaking. It will challenge the values of contemporary art infrastructure and highlight what contemporary art galleries and funding agencies overlook when they regard quilts as ‘unworthy’ of inclusion in major exhibitions. The presentation will consider how this might be challenged, changed, and re-arranged, to show what artists, institutions, and art educators might yet learn from the best of Australian quiltmaking.
#ozqnmembers #ozquiltnetwork #australiawideseven #liftingthequiltceiling #belcoarts

Australia Wide Seven, a touring exhibition present

Australia Wide Seven, a touring exhibition presented by @ozquiltnetwork, premieres at @belcoarts from 30 October until Friday 18 December 2020. The opening is at 6pm on Friday 30 October - bookings essential.
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My artwork Acuity #6: In a Twinkle of an Eye comments on how the world changed so quickly with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems like we are constantly recalibrating for the “new normal” to view life afresh.
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Check out the #aw7preview tag for a daily preview of other pieces in the exhibition.
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#australiawideseven #ozquiltnetwork #aw7 #ozqnart #brendagaelsmithart #covidart #acuity #artofseeing

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