His Excellency The Honourable Hieu Van Le AC Governor of South Australia has graciously agreed to sit this year to have his portrait done. Live Embroidered Portraits As part of the biennial Portrait Prize put on by the Royal S A society of Arts (RSASA) the RSASA has put out a challenge to artists to perform portraits of notable SA […]
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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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On 25th November 2015 John my partners 6th generation farm was one of the 700 farms burnt in one of the biggest and most ferocious fires that South Australia has seen. Tragically 2 people lost their lives We were at the farm at Mallala on the night of the fire, Nov 25. I could not sleep, so as an artist […]
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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. […]
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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 art Gallery of SA was fortunate to hold an exhibition of Turners Work and Cheryl who knew he was one of her husbands favourite artists spent hours sitting in the gallery sketching “Burial at Sea” The security staff initially showed consternation which changed to interest and progressed to admiration when they saw the embroidered Waistcoat that Cheryl had made […]
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Each year Cheryl uses her art, teaching skills or her studio/gallery to support at least 3 charities. Cheryl was approached by St Monica’s School Mural to assist the students in creating the schools new mural on one of the walls Cheryl gave her time to work with all years of the school from early learning to year 7. The student […]
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Each year Cheryl uses her art, teaching skills or her studio/gallery to support at least 3 charities. Cheryl was approached by Hackham West Primary School to assist the students in creating the schools Christmas banner to take in the annual Christmas parade. Cheryl gave her time to work with all years of the school from early learning to year 7.
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Each year Cheryl uses her art, teaching skills or her studio/gallery to support at least 3 charities. Dairy Australia launched a Picasso Cow program and donated fibreglass cows to worthy causes. Hackham West Primary school was one of 16 Primary schools in SA given a cow and Cheryl was approached to assist 20 year 5 and 6 students to make […]
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