Website: www.muirandmuir.com.au
Instagram: textile_expressions
E-mail: alison@muirandmuir.com.au
Originally trained as a commercial Interior Designer, Muir started using textiles to express issues of importance after visiting the Amish counties in 1982.
Accolades in the last 10 years include being juried into the SAQA@20 exhibition, a celebration of 20 years of Art Quilts in USA (2016) at National Quilt Museum and invitation to Judith Trager’s ’75 exhibition’ at Dairy Arts Centre Boulder Colorado in 2017
Exhibition highlights include Quilt National 2001, 2011 and 2019. Muir has been also been juried into all Art Quilt Australia and Australia Wide travelling exhibitions
Muir completed a research Master of Design (Hons) 2010 at the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, using textiles as a communication tool, entitled Fathoming the Depths.
disillusion- a protest
Retail Price: A$2500
Dimensions: 140 x 176cm ( H x W)
Statement: Glaciers and Polar ice are melting at an alarming rate, not seen or recorded in documents including Lloyd’s logs. Capitalism and Corporations need to repair the Earth, make income and allow a future before there is nothing left.
Exhibitions: The New Quilt 2024
Photographer: Tawfik Elgazzar
Shadow
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 30 x 30cm (12x12in) ( H x W)
Statement: Experimental Water
global warning
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 147 x 66cm ( H x W)
Statement: Australian politicians will not address ‘climate change’ even when scientists warn of global catastrophes.
The Reef is bleached again and the young scream to be heard.Maybe ‘global warning’ will get their attention but I am not hopeful!
Exhibitions: One Step Further 2021
Photographer: Andy Payne, Photographix
