the quiltmakersJenny Bowker has taken a walk through Australia's
forests and beaches and looked at the tracks offered, taking tracks
as a metaphor for moving through life. Jenny has offered in her
images, Snapshots in the Palmetum, Pathways
to the Ground, Pathways in Stone,
as snapshots taken en route. Dianne Firth uses abstraction to interrogate landscape
images and ideas. Helen Gray has explored the urban pathways decorated
by graffiti artists in the Australian Capital Territory. Her inspiration
comes from her attraction to the energy of the symbols and messages
of these youthful street artists on their own particular pathway
to maturity. The works are, Australia
Post, Garage Door and Ride
a Bike. Beth Miller's quilts, River
Barge, Fish Pond and Sydney
Seabreeze, have explored the journeys through the waterways
that tranverse and surround our continent - journeys sustained with
a life source. We see through the past present and the future in
her works, how in exploration, trade and nourishment water promotes
as well as commands the journey. Beth and Trevor Reid have looked at rivers and their
paramount importance to Australia. The Reid's observation is of
the continent opening up via the river systems, strongly flowing,
deep and murky, or dry sandy riverbeds, following pathways to exploration
and onto pathways to trade. Beth and Trevor depict in the three
quilts the river flowing strongly, the river slowly meandering and
the river desolate - Looking Back,
Wading In - Shallows to the Deep and
Undercurrent. |