Joining Threads: SAQA exhibition

SAQA and Timeless Textiles are partnering together to present this unique opportunity for SAQA artists. A total of 60 pieces (30 artists) will be on display at Timeless Textiles in Newcastle, NSW, Australia from August 13, 2024 through September 16, 2024.

Jette Clover sys the following of this exhibition:

First of all I want to congratulate the 24 artists being accepted to the Joining Threads exhibition.

The call for this exhibition was 2 artworks, a pair. I think the concept of a diptych exhibition is creating an unusual and exciting presentation and providing a better understanding and appreciation of the individual artist. It is very interesting to see two pieces from each artist. It certainly added to the pleasure of jurying. It is great to see how artists make their pieces speak to each other with colours, lines and subject matter, both abstract and representationally, and in a quiet or dynamic mood. The exhibition show a great variety of contemporary expression in textiles, but it is cohesive because of the same measurements.

Not only do we experience the joining of fabrics and threads,  the joining is also taken place on a global level with quilt artists from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA and Europe. I am especially pleased to see that 5 European artists will be showing their work on the other side of the world.

This exhibition is also a partnering between SAQA and Timeless Textiles Gallery, Australia’s only commercial fibre art gallery  – so a truly joint effort to bring international art quits together that I hope many viewers will enjoy.

Selected Artists: 

Regula Affolter (Switzerland) – the extras are running
Ludmila Aristova (New York, USA) – Folding & Unfolding
Geneviève Attinger (France) – Jazz & Java
Nancy Bardach (California, USA) – Water & Fire
Bobbi Baugh (Florida, USA) – The Flying Wallendas
Helen Beaven (New Zealand) – Which Way Up?
Anne Bellas (France) – Avant et après la pluie (Before and after the Rain)
Anna Brown (NSW, Australia) – Canopy 30 – Climate action
Sandra Champion (Tasmania, Australia) – ‘worst of the worst’ #4
Shin-hee Chin (Kansas, USA) – Diptych in Gold and Blue: Daffodils in the Lake and Stars in the Milky Way
Fenella Davies (United Kingdom) – Copse
Sarah Lykins Entsminger (Virginia, USA) – East Graham Bay 2
Dianne Firth (ACT, Australia) – Black and White
Victoria Gutierrez (Nevada, USA) – Blueprint for a Broken Planet
Laurel Izard (Indiana, USA) – Inside and Out
Clover L Kemp (Maryland, USA) – Seed Dispersion
Patty Kennedy-Zafred (Pennsylvania, USA) – American Portraits:  Bitter & Sweet
Pat Kroth (Wisconsin, USA) – Hot and Cool Jazz
Deborah A Kuster (Arkansas, USA) – Matisse and Picasso
Mary-Ellen Latino (California, USA) – Poetry of the Sea!, var.2
Alicia Merrett (United Kingdom) – War and Peace
Julie-Anne Rogers (NSW, Australia) – Regeneration
Lynne Seaman (United Kingdom) – Seeking Simplicity: Threads 6&7
Anna Wagner-Ott (Ontario, Canada) – Meandering
Geraldine Warner (Washington, USA) – Early Spring
Laura Wasilowski (Illinois, USA) – Fine Line Trees Summer and Autumn
Hope Wilmarth (Texas, USA) – Reflections I and II
Zara Zannettino (SA, Australia) – Dichotomy

Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: “a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.”