Cecily Grace

Textile artist Cecily Grace has captured the hidden world of birdlife in the Hunter’s internationally significant wetlands in a new exhibition opening at Timeless Textiles gallery in December TheWetlandersexhibition follows Grace’s exploration of the birdlife on her urban rooftop in a successful exhibition – The Waiting Bird and other Rooftop Visitors – at Newcastle’s Timeless Textiles Gallery last year. This exhibition focuses on the diverse birds found in the Shortland and Ash Island wetlands. The works for Wetlanders feature perching birds and precariously balancing nests on tangled and gnarly tree limbs. Within these tangles, various birds bathe, mate and eat, forming dramatic and artistic shapes. ...