{"id":9685,"date":"2025-07-10T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:23:43","slug":"a-very-early-art-quilt-distant-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=9685","title":{"rendered":"A Very Early Art Quilt, “Distant Shores”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today there was a reminder from the newsletter editor of the SAQA Oceania region, about the current call for submissions to the “What’s Inside?” themed virtual exhibition. She suggested some of us might have some suitable oldy-but-goody pieces lurking in our portfolios, and as size and the date of manufacture weren’t important, I thought I should at least have a look, though I wasn’t really expecting to find anything suitable that I could write a fitting statement for and enter this call. The usual stipulations applied – (a) good quality photographs, with a mimum number of pixels on the longest side, and (b) a full image to show the entire work plus a small amount of neutral background, plus a detail image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And top of my list is one of my first art quilts, “Distant Shores”<\/em> (I won’t go into the story of my several ‘first’ art quilts here) I made it in 1985 (forty years ago!) and showed it as a wall quilt in my first solo fibreart exhibition, “Sunburnt Textures” in Perth, Western Australia,1987. Back then we still lived in Australia, and I self identified as a ‘Creative Embroiderer’. My documentation of that show is by 24mm slides, and the only image I have is a small scan of the full view slide, with most of the bound edges cropped; and I can’t access that slide to get a better modern scan. I was a bit disappointed, because I think it would be perfect, and I’d even written the statement for it before I discovered the slide was deficient, so I’m showing it all here:<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Distant Shores” 1985. 150cm x 100cm<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I don’t have a detail image, but no matter. I can tell you I painted what I hope is obviously sand ripples onto undyed calico\/muslin; and in the dark areas I quilted and stitched lot of french knots. The shell is hand painted satin, constructed in two stuffed and quilted pieces, with the space showing a painted and stitched beach scene ‘inside’ the shell. The edges are finished with a ~1cm binding (some visible near the top right corner of the image.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My statement reads – “We\u2019ve all held a large shell close to our ear and \u2018heard\u2019 the sound of waves breaking on a distant beach; but what if we could look into that big shell and \u2018see\u2019 that distant beach?”<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did however find a couple of other, much more recent smallworks to enter, and whether either of them make the cut for that virtual exhibition, or not, I’ll post the link to that here in a few weeks’ time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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