Best in Show Winner, Two-Person Quilts Best Longarm Quilting
Who Will Tell the Bees?, Mary Palmer and Anne Kiely, Ireland
Artists’ statement: “A window into our world and the global environmental chaos on the brink, bees and growth offering hope and optimism for the future. Filled with symbolism and imagery around the elements of earth, wind and fire, all of which bring growth or destruction.”
Linen, cotton, wool; etchings translated digitally onto fabric. Constructed by hand, quilted by machine.
Winner, Group Quilts
Over the Hills and Far Away, Cowslips Workshops, Launceston, Cornwall
Artists’ statement: “The second quilt using a favourite landscape fabric that is so like the land around us. Summer moving into autumn, with the quilting echoing the animals and flowers, forming the cycle of life, with a splash…