The opening of the inaugural Guildhouse Fellowship was on Friday the 7th of August at The Art gallery Of South Australia. Emma Fey, CEO of Guildhouse and Rhana Devenport Director, AGSA welcomed guests and gave insights into the Fellowship and Troy-Anthony and his work. Cheryl did all the embroidery on these artworks. Troy-Anthony Baylis explained his new body of work ‘Nomenclature’ addressing the naming and renaming of place names in English, German and Indigenous languages. […]

The inaugural Fellowship was awarded to Troy-Anthony Baylis and he created an exhibition called Nomenclature addressing the naming and renaming of place names in English, German and Indigenous languages. Cheryl was honored to be asked to do all the machine embroidery of the Indigenous names on the eight weavings that had been completed Troy. These artworks are on view in the Vestibule the main entrance to the AGSA from August 8 – 31 2020. Cheryl […]

Mark and Anna have several of Cheryl’s work including a family portrait, and she was very excited when they commissioned a piece for their beach house. their brief was birds, ‘beachy’, as big as a door and she had to help hang it. For this one occasion Cheryl broke her self restrictive rule to never use paint on an embroidery. (For all of Cheryl’s embroideries she starts by sketching her ideas on a piece of […]

Bernina a Swiss family owned company who arguably makes the best sewing machines in the world. In 1994 Bernina commissioned Cheryl to produce an Art to Wear garment for their international calendar.  In 1995 Bernina again commissioned Cheryl to produce Art to Wear garment for their calendars Bernina have also collected several of her artworks.

The Advertiser commissioned 8 artists including Cheryl to create an artwork for the front page of The Weekend Magazine special SALA edition. This was an enormous honour as there were over 6,000 artists exhibiting in SALA that year. Cheryl’s fine art freehand machine embroidery ‘It’s A Matter Of Taste’ and the Advertiser dedicated its complete front page to Cheryl’s art work. This was published the weekend of the opening of the South Australian Living Artists […]