Embroiderers Guild NSW Broken Hill Winter School

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  Helen Parsons

  Helen is an exhibiting artist specialising in contemporary stitched textiles and research-based installation work and is an accredited Embroiderers' Guild NSW Tutor. She is fascinated by the endless creative potential of abstract textile art and enjoys the challenge of exploring, experimenting and pushing the boundaries of textiles and stitch to create new forms and connections. Helen’s research interests are diverse ranging from the influence of fashion on women’s lives, cultural heritage, abandoned industrial sites and social history. Her work currently is based on the use of recycled fabrics, paper, surface stitchery and needlelace.

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• More details about Krystle Evans

  Krystle Evans

  Krystle Evans is an Aboriginal artist with familial ties to the Far Western region of New South Wales, where she lives and works. Her contemporary Aboriginal works—confessional and feminist in nature—are painted, sewn, and adorned with found objects and diaristic text fragments. Krystle’s practice bridges traditional Aboriginal storytelling with contemporary themes to create new narratives. Her cross-disciplinary approach, recently foregrounding textiles, explores themes of self and the human experience through both a feminist and deeply personal cultural lens. (Text credit: Slag Heap Projects; Photo credit: Em Jensen)

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  Pam Hicks

  Pam, a much admired and respected textile artist and teacher, leads the Education Team at the Embroiderers' Guild NSW Inc. Her work is beautifully considered and expressive. Her professional background is as a Textiles and Design teacher in NSW Schools. Pam has been active in the leadership of the Embroiderers' Guild and the Technology Educators Association and plays a vital role in organising the TEXStyle exhibition of outstanding Major Textile Projects from the previous year's HSC students each year.

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  Judith Burns

  Judith's recent work has focused on the Baaka/Darling River and the land and waterways around it and, as a professional geographer, she is exploring approaches to communicating geographical ideas such as place meaning in stitch. She teaches regularly for the Embroiderers' Guild. Judith enjoys working with layering of sheer material with hand and free motion machine embroidery. She has completed the City and Guilds of London Institute Certificate in Craft and Design: Stitched Textiles.

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• More details about David Doyle

  David Doyle

  David Doyle is a Barkandji/Malyangapa man based in Broken Hill, NSW. His family is from the Menindee region of the Baaka, or Darling River. Following the traditions of his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, David is an emerging carver and artist. He makes carved emu eggs, mussel shell jewellery, and wooden objects including bowls and sculptures. He is also a knowledge holder of Barkindji bush medicines and edible plants. He produces medicinal lotions, tinctures and soaps using these same medicines. David explains: ‘I use materials from the Baaka in most of my sculptures because I’m making something that’s part of myself, part of my culture and my history’.

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  Bilyara Bates

  Bilyara is a Kurnu Barkandji wiimpatja, a man of the Baaka, or Darling River. His name means 'Eaglehawk' in Barkandji Language. He is an artist, knowledge holder and heavy metal musician. Bilyara, a sculptor and printmaker, was the winner of the Open category of the Maari Ma Indigenous Art Awards in 2024. As a First Nations person living in two worlds, he is keen to share his knowledge of and connection to Country with visitors.

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