MEDIA KIT - Queensland Art Gallery
MEDIA KIT - Queensland Art Gallery
MEDIA KIT - Queensland Art Gallery
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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW<br />
• ‘Quilts 1700–1945’ from the Victoria and Albert Museum,<br />
London (V&A) is on display exclusively at the <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> from June 15 until September 22, 2013.<br />
• The exhibition explores over 200 years of British patchwork and<br />
quilt-making, uncovering the personal and social histories<br />
embedded in extraordinary, hand-crafted textiles.<br />
• The exhibition includes 55 objects: 36 quilts and 19 items of<br />
associated material such as pin cushions, needlework tools and<br />
sewing baskets dating from 1690 to 1945.<br />
Elisabeth Chapman / Coverlet commemorating the Duke of<br />
Wellington detail c.1829 / Cotton / Collection: Victoria and Albert<br />
Museum, London. Given by Gwendolyn Baker in memory of her<br />
husband, Stephen Baker / © Victoria and Albert Museum,<br />
London<br />
• Drawn primarily from the collection of the V&A, the exhibition<br />
also includes select additional pieces lent by some of the UK’s<br />
finest regional museums and private collections, and<br />
showcases some of the finest surviving examples of British bed<br />
covers, wall hangings and textiles from the eighteenth and<br />
nineteenth centuries.<br />
• The exhibition will also feature one of the world’s most important and admired textiles, The Rajah quilt 1841,<br />
which was sewn by convict women during transportation to Van Diemen’s Land, on loan from the National<br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> of Australia.<br />
• ‘Quilts 1700-1945’ is curated by Sue Prichard, Curator of Contemporary Textiles at the V&A, and has been<br />
developed from the successful exhibition, titled ‘Quilts 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories’, staged<br />
at the V&A from 20 March to 4 July 2010.<br />
• A new, revised version of the publication that accompanied the V&A exhibition has been published by<br />
QAGOMA, as a soft cover book with approximately 196 pages it will include an extended essay on The<br />
Rajah quilt by Robert Bell, Senior Curator of Decorative <strong>Art</strong>s & Design, National <strong>Gallery</strong> of Australia,<br />
Canberra.<br />
• ‘Quilts 1700–1945’ is a ticketed exhibition. Tickets available via www.qagoma.qld.gov.au/quilts<br />
• Ticket costs: Adult $15, Concession $12, Member $11, Secondary students $8, Children 12 & under Free,<br />
Family (1-2 adults & children aged 13-17) $38, Season Adult $45, Season Concession $36, Season<br />
Member $33