Tracey Bareli with her quilt.
Last week was the opening of the “stitched and bound” exhibition at the Cannery arts Centre.
The Western Quilters Association have curated 48 quilts and textile artworks that showcase how textile artists are challenging the concept of the traditional quilt medium.
In the exhibition are artworks that began as old clothes, pieces of felt or even chocolate wrappers that have been given a new life in their stitched and bound form.
The Cannery is honoured to have this exhibition in Esperance, art director Marcia Leonard said, not just because it features textile artists from all over WA but especially because the selected works included two by Esperance locals.
It was because of the quilts created by Esperance textile artists Tracey Bareli and sisters Lana and Jan Fisher, as well as the funding from the Esperance Bay Rotary Club that the exhibition could come to town.
“Our Rotary club invited Tracey along to a meeting and she brought some ‘show and tell’,” club member, Jen Ford said.
“We were absolutely blown away with it all so of course when the proposal came up to the board they said ‘yes’.”
Tracey Bareli said her contemporary quilt “Gum Blossom” was inspired by the brilliant orange flowers that bloomed from the Red Flowering Gum in the summer.
Ms Bareli said she was grateful to have her quilt featured and to be able to share a little bit of textile arts with Esperance.
“I’d like to give a thank you to the Rotary club without whom this wouldn’t have been possible,” she said.
This “Stitched and Bound” exhibition will be displayed in the Cannery Arts centre until Sunday October 13.
