I make contemporary textiles using a mixture of hand dyeing
and printing on cloth, applique and machine and hand stitch. I like using
layers and collage.
Nature, colour and lines are my inspiration. Textiles are
central to my practice, and I enjoy the processes of making and constructing
with them. I work in my sketchbook/workbook regularly, researching artists and
makers, and making experimental samples using a wide variety of materials to
develop my practice further.
I am drawn to improvisational quilts and have studied
design and composition extensively with world-renowned quilt artist Nancy Crow
(USA). Textile collage and hand stitch are important to my practice.
Rebecca Staunton Coffey
EXHIBITIONS
2022 “Abstraction", Cooroy Butter Factory July/August 2022 (four artists)
2019 “Margaret Olley: Contemplations,
conservations”, Warwick Art
Gallery, Queensland (as a member
of Broadstrokes)
2019 Berry
Textile Art Exhibition (two artists)
2018 Lower Hutt Art Gallery, New Zealand Cre8 (five artists), August to September
2017 Advice to Beginners, Three Squared Expressions Gallery, Upper Hutt, NZ
2017 St Pauls Anglican Church. Ipswich, Queensland, 3 to 7 May (solo)
2016 Taiwan International Art Quilt Exhibition, Taipei (as a member of Broadstrokes)
2016 “Still Cre8ing”, Lower Hutt Art Gallery, New Zealand
2015 Pieces of Eight, NZ Parliamentary Gallery (nine artists)
2014 Pieces of Eight, Expressions Gallery, Upper Hutt, NZ
2013 “Cre8”, Sawmillers Quiltery, Te Marua, New Zealand
2011 Lesson with Nancy Crow, Minerva Art Gallery, Cuba Street, Wellington (five artists)
EDUCATION
• City and Guilds (UK) Patchwork and Quilting; awarded 2008
• City and Guilds (UK) Creative Sketchbook; awarded 2012
• University of Creative Arts (UK) Certificate of Higher Education – Textiles; awarded 2022
WORKSHOPS
• Western
Australia Craft Shows – 2015, 2017
• Craft
Show – Sydney 2016
PUBLICATIONS
• Down
Under Quilts – a feature writer for two years, 2017 and 2018
• NZ
Quilter Issues 61, 75 & 96
• Embellish
Magazine – Cre8 feature
• Embellish
Issues 26, 29 & 35
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