alison schwabe alison@alisonschwabe.com
selected resume
solo exhibitions
2009 May Club Balear, Montevideo, URUGUAY
2005 Jun “Ebb and Flow”, Australian Embassy, Washington DC USA
1999 Oct Gallery In The Square, Salamanca Place, Hobart TAS
1999 July ‘Sunburnt Textures’ Craft Council of NT Gallery, Darwin NT
1999 Jan Arcobaleno Gallery, Punta del Este, URUGUAY
1999 Feb Le Spezia Cultural Space Gallery, Montevideo, URUGUAY
1997 Jul “Interactions” , Ellis House, Bayswater, WA
1995 Sep Mountford Winery, Pemberton WA
1993 Apr “Seams and Themes”, New Pieces, Berkeley, CA, USA
1987 Jul “Sunburnt Textures” Perth School of Creative NeedleArt, WA
significant group exhibitions – invitational
2018 Aug “Nature Of A Stitch” cur. K. Keifel, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA USA.
2017 Aug “75”, J Trager curator, Dairy Arts Centre, Boulder CO USA
1999 Mar Australian Quilt Art, J.Hooworth curator, Grobenzell, GERMANY
1998 Jul “Scintilla” miniature textiles, City of Canberra Art Gallery, ACT
1998 Jan International Quilt Week, Aust machine quilted works, Nagoya, JAPAN
1997 Mar “IMPACT”, Lilly Art Gallery, Rockingham Civic Centre, WA
significant group exhibitions – juried
2024 Jan Salon International de Arte en Vidrio y Textil, Maldonado UY
2023 Oct Worldwide Threqds Ontario Canada; group exhibition ‘Forever Covid’
2023 Aug Art Quilt Australia 2023, Geelong Wool Museum, Victoria, AUS
2023 May Quilt National ’23, Dairy Barn Arts Centre, Athens OH USA
2022 Nov SAQA collection for SOFA Chicago -event cancelled,
2022 Sep SAQA Textile Expressionism, virtual, https://www.saqa.com/textile-expressionism
2021 May Quilt National 21, Dairy Barn Arts Centre, Athens, OH USA
2021 April SAQA Oceania “Distance and Diversity” touring Australia and NZ
2020 Oct Australia Wide 7, Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT, AUS
2018 Feb ArtQuiltAustralia17 Yarra Ranges Museum Gallery Lilydale Vic. AUS
2017 Sep ArtQuiltAustralia17 Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Launceston AUS
2016 Oct Australia Wide 5 Wool Museum Geelong, AUST; toured Aus, NZ, USA
2016 June My Corner Of The World, SAQA, Philadelphia USA.
2011 Oct “QUILT!” Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2010 Jan Galeria Los Caracoles, Jose Ignacio, URUGUAY
2009 Nov Art Quilt Australia, Canberra Art Gallery, ACT.
2009 May Quilt National, the Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, Ohio USA
awards/commissions/grants
1998 May through June, Artist in Residence, Crafts Council NT, Katherine NT
1997 Apr Artcraft Expo; silver medal, sculpture, Fremantle WA
1995 Apr Artcraft Expo; gold medal, best hanging work, Fremantle, WA
1994 Oct Water Authority Art Award, joint winner, Notre Dame U, Fremantle WA
published articles
2011 Aug Prologue, in “Mantas Traperas” Larghero P et al, p 8
2006 Feb “UFO’s”, Down Under Quilts Magazine #96, pp 38-40
2004 Nov “Irregular Shapes” Down Under Quilts Magazine #78, pp 33-37
2004 Nov “Freehand Curved Piecing”, Quilters Newsletter Magazine pp 56-57
2004 Jun TEXTILE # 75, Review: “Detours and Diversions” p 28
2003 Sep “Plus ςa Change”, p.30 masterclass article, Patchwork Magazine sept ‘03
2001 Oct Down Under Quilts Magazine Dec 2001 p 26 “Colour-it’s easier than you think…”
selected bibliography
Quilt National Catalogues 1993,1995,2007,2009, 2021, 2023
Down Under Quilts Nov 2004 profile article, by Erica Spinks p. 30
Patchwork Magazine, sept 2003, “Fabric of Life” profile by A. Merrett, p27.
The Mercury, review, J.Andersch Oct 22,’99 p
TEXTILE # 50, detail photo and text in review of “Razor’s Edge’97” p34
Craftwest Aug ’97, p15, photo & text “First Off” review, M. O’Ferrall
TEXTILE # 49, photos and text publicising solo exhibition “Interactions”
Quilt Almanac 1996 feature article, photos and text
HOMES & Living Magazine , Jan/Feb’96, feature article and photos.
Down Under Quilts #30 Sept’95 pp8-9 feature text & photos
TEXTILE #43 feature, text & photos, p 12 July ’95
The New Quilt 2 (QN’93 catalogue) p9
memberships & affiliations
OzquiltNetwork.org.au Foundation Member
Studio Art Quilts Association Juried Artist Member
collections
West Australian Water Authority, Perth, Western Australia.
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, Colorado USA.
Embassy of Australia, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Numerous private collections in Australia, NZ, Uruguay, USA, France, S.Africa.
websites
Alison Schwabe website - http://www.alisonschwabe.com
Alison’s Blog - http://www.alisonschwabe.com/weblog/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/schwabealison/
Ozquilt Network Inc - http://www.ozquiltnetwork.org.au/
Studio Art Quilt Associates http://www.saqa.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082231031799