Click on any image to see the quilt detail and read the poem matched with the quilt. The poems are from ‘Swamp’ by Nandi Chinna, available from Fremantle Press.
Our Wetlands quilt set is on display at Rockingham Central Library until May 24, library hours, and then it will be sold. There will be a presentation about it this Thursday, May 16, 6 pm – 8 pm at the library with refreshments after the slideshow / talk. The quilts are complemented by poems matched with each quilt which will amuse and pause you to ponder, and a display on conservation of the endangered swamp tortoise. The library is on Dixon Rd, Rockingham, in the grounds of the Murdoch University Campus.
Come to enjoy quilts with poetry. An example that compares ‘what was’ with ‘what is now’, and an example to make you smile follow. Click on an image to read the poem.
Exhibit details. Rockingham Central Library, Dixon Road on Murdoch University Campus, Rockingham
April 29 – May 24, library hours
Opening 10am May 2, rsvp rclcontact@rockingham.wa.gov.au
Presentation 6pm May 16, rsvp rclcontact@rockingham.wa.gov.au
Our Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses Quilts are about to be shown in Melbourne, at the Australasian Quilt Convention, Royal Exhibition Building, April 11-14. See you there! Advertising by AQC has been terrific. Below is the spread on our quilts in the latest AQC email.
City of Perth have asked that we hang our Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses quilts for an extra week in their library. So, if you haven’t visited yet, you have until November 15. You can have a peek preview in the slideshows below, but of course quilts look better in the real.
Detail and context
The quilts
Booklet with artist statements and story Wetlands Quilt Set Booklet
Heritage Perth Weekend Talk, City of Perth Library 20/10/18
We are sooo pleased with the responses to our 16 small quilts in the City of Perth Library. The library is a great place exhibit. In addition to the quilts there is a larger than life slide show above the library counter, works by Noongar artists besides the entries to the lifts on each floor, and pamphlet and social media advertising all arranged by the library. Then there is our visitor book with comments that tell us it is all worth while, and our booklet that documents links between our quilts and Noongar culture. Please visit — the exhibit is up until November 8, and we are giving a talk on October 20, 2pm-3pm as part of Perth Heritage weekend–book (free) through the Perth Heritage website after October 7.
We are pleased that our 16 piece ‘Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses’ quilt set has been accepted for the National Quilt Register
Liz Humphreys’ quilt ‘Balbuk’s Country, Looking Easr’ from our previous set is now also on the register.
We invite you to a talk about our new quilt set Nyoongar Country: Wetland Glimpses.
Thu Sep 27th 12:00pm – 1:00pm.
City of Perth Library auditorium, first floor, 573 Hay St, Perth
Free but register at:
Our other news is that the November issue of Down Under textiles will contain an article on the Noongar Country quilt set and has Hilary Arber’s quilt What’s for dinner? on the cover. Hilary’s quilt shows a Great Egret ready to pounce.
https://www.moremags.com.au/textiles/dut/down-under-textiles-34
Noongar Country, Wetland Glimpses
Venue: City of Perth Library, Hay St, just inside the library-counter entrance
Dates: August 21 – November 8
Talks: Library auditorium
September 27 12noon-1pm, free, bookings open Aug 18, Library Events
https://www.perth.wa.gov.au/living-community/city-perth-library/library-events-0
October 20 2pm-3pm, free, book Heritage Perth website https://heritageperth.com.au/
Albany welcomed us with fine weather for the opening of our ‘Whadjuk Noongar Country: Wetlands Glimpses’ exhibition. Stella King and Liz Humphreys traveled down first to hang the quilts. They complemented the quilt display with dried specimens of banksia and other plants and fresh native flowers, and made the slide show prepared by Meg Cowey play continuously. The exhibit fitted well with other NAIDOC week events. It remains in Albany till July 29, then will be in the City of Perth library, near the entrance, August 21-November 8.
