Tara Glastonbury is a quilt designer, maker and curator based in Melbourne, Australia. She is a champion of the modern quilt movement and more specifically for modern quilts to be recognised as a legitimate art form (especially in Australia).
This is her fourth curated exhibition, and the first including international artists.
The quilters represented here showcase some of the most exciting artists working in the modern quilt movement today. As a group they have works held in public and private collections, and have taught, exhibited, published and won awards internationally.
Along with Tara, the Australian artists include Jessica Wheelahan, Tania Tanti, Diana Vandeyar, Phong Chi Lai, Caroline Hadley and Lorena Uriarte – who all feature regularly in Tara’s shows.
Their corresponding partners areVictoria Gertenbach, Chawne Kimber, Irene Roderick, Sarah Hibbert, Hetal Shrivastav, Daisy AschehougandKrista Hennebury.