Gallery Three

From First Stitch: A Journey Through Cloth and Canvas

by Katrina Allison

Gallery Three

Meet the artist at the opening on Saturday 03 October 3pm to 5pm

From the first tentative stitch in 2015 to the layered surfaces on view now, these works map a quiet apprenticeship. Quilts made over the years taught me that beauty is built slowly, one piece at a time. A 2022 course in oil painting taught me to see myself as a painter as well as a maker.

Surrounded by generous teachers and peers, I learned to let cloth and oil speak together. The quilts hold memory in thread and pattern and that creativity can emerge from scraps and scarcity. Paintings over the past four years has taught me to see differently, to notice light, shadow, colour and emotion in ordinary moments.

Together they form conversations about practice, lineage and the small decisions that become an artist's voice.