Recent,
Current and Upcoming
Exhibitions
These textile artworks will be or have been on display as part of an
exhibition at the venue indicated. They have all been created with an extensive
use of free machine embroidery and quilting, supplemented with hand
appliqué and embroidery, dyes, paints, beading and found objects. They are
available for sale either at the venue or you could contact me via email. If you
would like to commission an artwork, please contact me.
denise@toffeeappledesigns.com.
My current exhibition is a
collection entitled 'Life's a Beach' exhibited as part of the SALA Festival at the
Veritas Winery tasting
room from July 31, 2011 to September 30, 2011, in Tanunda, South Australia.
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| 'Beach
1' is the debris left behind by the tide. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, handmade felt, paint,
beads, and found objects. |
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Size:
18"
x 18" x 3/4" |
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| 'Beach 2' is the
debris left behind by the tide. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, handmade felt, paint,
beads, and found objects. |
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Size:
18"
x 18" x 3/4" |
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'Beach 3' is the debris left behind
by the tide. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, handmade felt, paint,
beads, and found objects. |
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Size:
18"
x 24" x 3/4" |
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This is the 'Boardwalk' that goes
across the dunes to the beach at Pt. Vincent. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, paint, beads, and found
objects. |
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Size: 18" x
24"
x 1/4" |
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'Feeding the Seagulls'. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, paint, beads, and found
objects. |
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Size:
approx 18"
x 36" x 1/4" |
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| The steps at the 'Wharf'
and Pt. Vincent. Crab net, bucket and towel abandoned, gone
swimming. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, handmade felt, paint,
beads, and found objects. |
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Size:
approx 18"
x 24" x 1/4" |
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'Beach Play' shows a child playing
on a beached boat. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, handmade felt, paint,
beads, and found objects. |
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Size: 18"
x 22" x 1/4" |
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| This piece depicts a pair of pelicans in
consideration. Machine embroidery,
appliqué and quilting, |
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Size:
18" x
22" x 1/4" |
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| 'Lose Yourself' is a
time-lapse picture. Machine
and hand embroidery, appliqué and quilting, paint, beads, and found
objects. |
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Size:
5' x 2.5' x 1/4" |
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A collection entitled "Close Up" which
was exhibited as part of the SALA Festival at the Veritas Winery tasting
room from July 31, 2010 to August 31, 2010, in Tanunda, South Australia.
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| This
piece depicts Frangipani flowers. Extensively machine
embroidered and quilted with the flowers in relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 18" x 3/4" |
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Price:
$AU760 |
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| The Bird of
Paradise artwork is extensively machine embroidered with some
pieces in low relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 18" x 1/4" |
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Price:
$AU760 |
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This piece depicts Red Lillies.
Extensively machine embroidered and quilted with the flowers and leaves
in high relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 18" x 1 1/2" |
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Price:
$AU760 |
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This piece displays Red Roses.
Extensively machine embroidered and quilted with the flowers and leaves
in low relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 18" x 1/4" |
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Price:
$AU760 |
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This piece displays a pair of
Lorikeets. Hand made felt, extensively machine embroidered and
quilted with the flowers and leaves in high relief. |
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Size:
approx 36"
x 1/4" x 1 1/2" |
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Price:
$AU850 |
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| This piece displays
a ring tailed Possum in the Elderberry tree. Hand made
felt, extensively machine embroidered and quilted with the berries and
leaves in high relief. |
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Size:
approx 36"
x 1/4" x 1 1/2" |
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Price:
$AU850 |
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This piece displays the Rangers
Hut in the Bundaleer Forest.
Extensively machine appliqued, embroidered and quilted with the needled
felted kangeroos
in low relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 36" x 1/4" |
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Price:
$AU980 |
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| This piece depicts the fenceline display of salvation
jane near Spaulding.
Extensively machine appliqued,
embroidered and quilted with flowers in high relief. |
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Size:
24"
x 36" x 1/4" |
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Price:
$AU980 |
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The following collection was
exhibited for sale at the Rolf Binder Veritas
Winery tasting room in Tanunda,
from the 1st to the 31st of December 2009. They were also exhibited
at Ashgrove Iris Garden on 31st Oct and 1st Nov 2009 as part of the Australian
Open Garden Scheme.
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The
Alligator Gorge
artwork is paint on fabric,
extensively machine embroidered, quilted, appliquéd and hand
embroidered. |
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Size:
36" x 18" x 3/4" |
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Price:
$AU920 |
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The
Melrose Creek artwork is paint on
fabric, extensively machine embroidered, quilted, appliquéd and hand
embroidered. |
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Size:
36" x 18" x 3/4" |
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Price:
$AU920 -
sold |
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| This
piece depicts a Fire Tree. The Aborigines carved out the inside of
the tree and lit a fire as a beacon for their ancestors. Hand
felted naturally coloured wool, hand and machine embroidery and appliqué. |
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Size:
36" x 18" x 3/4" |
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Price:
$AU920 |
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The
Stone House Door
quilt
is a
small wall hanging. Extensively machine appliquéd, embroidered, quilted,
then hand embroidered. |
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Size:
14" x 14" |
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Price:
$AU495 |
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The
Vineyard
quilt
is a
small wall hanging. Extensively machine and hand embroidered and
quilted, with wired leaves and beads. |
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Size:
14"
x 14" |
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Price:
$AU495 |
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| Entitled
Curiosity of the Young this small wall hanging that is
machine appliqued, extensively machine appliqued, embroidered, painted and
quilted, with some hand embroidery. |
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Size:
14"
x 14" |
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Price:
$AU495 |
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This small
artwork is entitled Mid-North Farm
and is needle felted wool
from that area, embellished with hand embroidery. |
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Size:
9"
x 11" |
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Price:
$AU330 |
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This small artwork is entitled
Grapes and is needle felted wool, with the grapes and leaves in high
relief. |
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Size:
11"
x 9" x 2" |
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Price:
$AU330 |
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| The
Garden Pots quilt is a small wall hanging
that is extensively machine appliqued and embroidered, then hand
embroidered. |
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Size:
14" x 14"
x 1/4" |
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Price:
$AU495 -
sold |
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| The Newholland
Honeyeater wall artwork is woven, felted wool, embellished with
needle felted leaves, rayon gum blossoms, and a free machine embroidered
Newholland Honeyeater |
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Size:
26"
x 10" |
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Price:
$AU565 |
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