Exhibition: A Change in the Weather
About the exhibition
This is a virtual exhibition of quilts based on the theme of climate change, made by members of ‘Tippys-Mob’, an online quilt group from Australia and New Zealand.
The exhibition theme was chosen because the woman who started Tippy's Mob, Clare Smith, is married to climate change scientist David Wratt. David works for NIWA (a government-owned research organisation) in New Zealand and is a member of the IPCC. Clare found people were asking her questions based on things they had read about climate change, to pass on to David.
Clare says "It was obvious that most of us were rather confused by what we read so we decided to put on an exhibition which would help to educate people a little bit and on the way we educated ourselves."
The live exhibition was shown at the Minerva Gallery in Wellington in June 2009, and in Queenstown at The Cloakroom Gallery from 3rd – 26th July.
The members exhibiting are:
- Jenny Bowker from Canberra, Australia
- Dijanne Cevaal from Colac, Victoria, Australia
- Cheryl Comfort from Christchurch, New Zealand
- Margery Goodall from Perth, Australia
- Gloria Loughman from Victoria, Australia
- Wendy Lugg from Perth, Australia
- Ronnie Martin from Nelson, New Zealand
- Clare Plug from Napier, New Zealand
- Alison Schwabe from Perth, Australia but currently living in Uruguay
- Clare Smith from Wellington, New Zealand
- Sue Wademan from Queenstown, New Zealand
- Sue Wood from Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.
About Tippy's Mob
Tippy's Mob is an online quilt group of 14 people which formed in December 2000 as a breakaway from a larger Australian/New Zealand group called ‘Southern Cross Quilters’.
The name Tippy's Mob came from a silly discussion when the group first started to break the ice. Members all gave up their drag names (based on the the name of your first pet, followed by the street you first lived in as a child). Clare Smith had started the group, and as her drag name ended up as ‘Tippy Perry’ the group came to be called after that name. BTW Dijanne Cevaal is Normie Klienweg, Jenny Bowker is Frisky Myrtle, Wendy Lugg is Silky Effingham.
The members generally only ever meet as a group if there is a quilt symposium where a number of them are teaching. They have never all been in the same place at the same time, but a few have met all the members of the group at one time or the other, sometimes in other countries, like South Africa or England.
