Alicia Merrett – Featured Speaker via Zoom – February 24, 2024
Hello from the Sunshine Coast Quilters Guild!
On behalf of our Program Director, Karen Biddlecombe, and our President,
Andrea Wilson, please see the details below regarding a February 24,
2024 Zoom event that may be of interest to your guild members.
To join the Zoom presentation, check out this link and follow
instructions below:
https://scquiltersguild.com/calendar/resource-day-alicia-merrett/
1) Email us at register@scquiltersguild.com by February 20th to ensure
you receive the link via your email address in time for the event.
2) Please note ‘Alicia Merrett – February 24th in your email subject
line.
Unlimited participants, all welcome!
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Alicia Merrett is a Contemporary Textile Artist. She is based out of
the UK
Artist statement: Colour has been my passion from an early age. The
crystal clear blue skies of my home town of Buenos Aires, the colours of
the flowers in our garden, were a constant source of pleasure and
inspiration.
Working with fabric in one way or another since childhood, colour and
line have inspired and motivated the creation of my quilted pieces. Line
gives colour shape, pattern and rhythm, and helps organise my
improvisational textile designs.
When I started making art quilts, colour was my first path. It was
followed by meaningful themes (Shakespeare, music, nature, magic and
science), and later by maps and aerial views, where line seemed to take
priority over colour. Text was sometimes incorporated. The texture
afforded by quilting became another important element in my work.
Photography has been another important influence. I studied and
practiced photography in the 1970s. The photographic way of seeing still
informs my work. Later on I was wowed by the challenge of using a
computer-based digital darkroom, and experimented with translating those
early designs, mostly figurative, into fabric.
Recently I rediscovered the primacy of colour in my work, and returned
to experimenting with the now much advanced digital technology. My
latest pieces are designed in my computer and iPad, printed on fabric,
layered and machine quilted.
Recent world events has meant that although I still work with abstract
colour designs, I use them to express my concerns about the climate
emergency, and now about life in the time of coronavirus.”
Alicia has professional affiliations in:
Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA)
CQ West
Viewpoints 9
Crossing Oceans
Contemporary Quilt
The Quilters Guild of Great Britain
Alicia will be doing a presentation/trunk show on: “Visual Music: My
Journey as a Quilter” (A digital presentation about the origins and
development of my quilting life, from playing in fabric with colour,
shape and line, through my different series, including my best known
maps series, and my new digital work.)
This will be via Zoom on the 24th of February, 2024 at 10:30am BC PST.
Additionally Alicia will be presenting “Small Pieced Map” which will be
a slide show with instructions so members can do one if they wish!!
Alicia website is found at: https://www.aliciamerrett.co.uk if you
wish to look her up and see her works
The SCQG is offering non-members access to this presentation for a
nominal fee of $15.00. If you have questions, please contact
karen@klbhr.ca. All registrants will receive the link 1 or 2 days prior
to the event.
Note that all SCQG members and paid non-members will receive the
instructions on how to construct ‘small piece map’ project after the
event.