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 […]
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The Society for Embroidered Work has one aim, Promoting and supporting the best in stitched art worldwide Founded by UK based textile artists Cat Frampton and Emily Tull in 2018 after a conversation about the inclusion of (or lack of) stitched/embroidered artworks in the art world. Only once a year S.E.W. accept new members from anywhere in the world applicants are […]
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Adelaide is the only city in the world situated in a Park : Every 2 years The Adelaide Parklands Preservation Society has an Art Prize to raise the vulnerability of Adelaide’s unique Parklands. This year it runs from April 2nd to May 31st 2020 and will be held in the Festival Theatre Foyer and QBE Galleries. Cheryl was honoured to […]
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Cheryl was one of 31 artists to be a finalist in the fourth year of this prestigious competition, The Annual Gallery M Contemporary Art Competition. Her artwork ‘Live Loud’ is the only textile artwork in the exhibition Cheryl was chosen as runner up in the Gallery M Open Contemporary Art Prize — The Warradale Hotel Prize Artist statement for ‘Live […]
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Several Artists were chosen to report why they liked where they live. Cheryl was chosen to represent the City of Adelaide. The article was published in the City Messenger.
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Cheryl was asked to be one of four Australian artists to join a group of sixty artists from nine countries to participate in a five-day cultural art exchange at the Saigon Kylong Arts Gallery in Ho Chi Min City There were representatives from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Norway The first activity was to create a large full group […]
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Cheryl was one of 150 artists from all art genres selected Australia wide to submit an entry for the Dreamtime ’96 National Billy Can Art Competition. The entrants were each supplied with a billy can 18 cm in diameter and 18.5 cm high. The competition was Australia wide and was sponsored by Qantas, the Australian Tourism Commission and Craft Australia. […]
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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.
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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 […]
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The Art Gallery of South Australia appointed a new director in 2010 Nick Mitzevich after 12 months at the helm, Cheryl was so excited about the direction that he was taking the Gallery that she freehand machine embroidered a small portrait of him, which he then hung in his office. A friendship was formed and Cheryl designed crafted and hand […]
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