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| time present: the softness inside her 2021 |
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| time future: touch the stars |
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| time past: island heart |
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| time past: island heart other side |
The piece is as heavy as an animal's fur pelt and just as soft. 22 x 49 inches (56 x 124 cm) 2025
River of Softness reverse side, block printed heavy silk satin from India, hand quilted,
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Prayer for the Twenty-first century: Freedom silk thread on linen,moutned on wool, wood frame, 12 x 12 inches, 2025
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| freedom, understanding, courage, family silk thread on linen, mounted on wool, signed with embroidery on front each 12 inches by 12 inches, framed in wood frames 2025 |
These four small red-thread embroideries will debut at the Perivale Gallery for the 2025 season.
Inspired by a poem that John Marsden from Australia wrote in 1997.
Prayer for the twenty-first century
May the road be free for the
journey
May it lead where it promised it
would.
May the stars that gave ancient
bearings
Be seen, still be understood.
May every aircraft fly safely,
May ever traveller be found,
May sailors in crossing the ocean
Not hear the cries of the drowned.
May gardens be wild, like jungles,
May nature never be tamed,
May dangers create of us heroes,
May fears always have names.
May the mountains stand to remind
us
Of what it means to be young,
May we be outlived by our
daughters,
May we be outlived by our sons.
May the bombs rust away in the
bunkers,
And the doomsday clock not be
rewound,
May the solitary scientists,
working,
Remember the holes in the ground.
May the knife remain in the
holder,
May the bullet stay in the gun,
May those who live in the shadows
Be seen by those in the sun.
naturally dyed vintage table linens, bordered with hand woven silk from India, hand pieced and hand quilted, 175 x 172 cm or 69 x 68 inches, 2024
The fabrics were sorted by value, light to dark.
Beginning with the lightest value in the centre, rows of hand pieced squares were added in turn around all four sides until the that particular colour ran out.
The title is Intimacy because it is the back side of the quilt, and when you pull a quilt over you, the back side is the side that touches your body in an intimate way.
This is a quilt about touch and time and care.
Premier showing at The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham UK, in Judith Martin's solo exhibition, Softer and Dreamier.
Far Away Stars, detail
velvet, silk, cotton, natural dyes, cotton thread, hand quilted to two layers of wool 2024
233 x 132 cm or 91 x 52 inches
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| Far Away Stars: Full view |
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| Cloudy Day, full view |
An applique of a dark and stormy sky has a title that calmly and hopefully references the future: Tomorrow Is Another Day.
Mercy plant dyed damask table linen, cotton thread, 48 x 82 inches or 122 x 208 cm, 2024
The reverse side of the piece is made from three smaller pieces of different-hued damask and is entitled Mercy.
The three pieces of the second side receive the stitches from the first side as if a single original and courageous drawing.
When you are worried, remember to look at the sky. The answers are there.
Have compassion. Tomorrow is Another Day.
This quilt had it's premier showing in Judy Martin's solo exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham England August 2024. The title of her show is Softer and Dreamier. Softer and Dreamier.
Currently on display in room 309 until November 2025 in the Gladstone House Hotel in Toronto, Ontario as part of an award from Craft Ontario. Read more here.