Regeneration: Contemporary Quilt Textiles 2012

Manly Art Gallery and Museum 27 April - 4 June 2012

A collaboration between The Quilters' Guild of NSW Inc. and Manly Art Gallery and Museum

The New Quilt exhibition has been hosted by Manly Art Gallery and Museum for the past twenty years (see Background Information about the history of this exhibition). For the twenty first year, it was agreed that a new vision for the exhibition be achieved.  To this end, a decision was made to have a curated, themed exhibition with specific, visual selection criteria as the basis of being accepted into the exhibition.  

Regeneration will be open free to the public from 27 April to 4 June 2012 at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum at West Esplanade Reserve, Manly. The gallery overlooks Sydney Harbour and is close to Manly's famed beaches.

Congratulations to the successful artists:
Jody Abel (VIC), Mirjam Aigner (NSW), Anna Brown (NSW), Jan Clark (NSW), Sue Cunningham (VIC), Amanda Daly (NSW), Ruth de Vos (WA), Dianne Firth (ACT), Brenda Gael Smith (NSW), Judy Hooworth (NSW), Alison Levingston (NSW), Gloria Muddle (NSW), Alison Muir (NSW), Judy Nikoleski (NSW), Kylie Ramsay (NSW), Greg Somerville (NSW), Joanne Steele (NSW), Carolyn Sullivan (NSW), Antonia Valentine (NSW)

Artists were selected on the basis of originality and the innovative use of media, as well as their artistic response to the theme 'regeneration'.

Regeneration celebrates the 21st year of this contemporary quilt exhibition and The Quilters' Guild of NSW's 30th year. Exhibition Curator Jennifer Sanders said: 'Regeneration gives us the opportunity to encourage and foster new forms of quilted textile art – work which draws on the traditional skills and expertise and then explores new territories of expression on the exhibition theme ...'
The exhibition will feature the use of individual display boxes for each work showing the artists' sources of inspiration, photos, sketches, samples of their fabrics and techniques – 'any material which the artist believes will help convey to the audience the story behind the finished work.'

Sanders said: 'The ideas we are exploring in this exhibition should help make the Regeneration project one which yields rewards for all involved, as much as does the final exhibition in 2012.'

For more information, please contact Guild representative Cathy Jack Coupland: regeneration@quiltersguildnsw.com
or Curator/Programs Coordinator Sarah Johnson: artgallery@manly.nsw.gov.au