When contemporary textile artist and curator Brenda Smith put out a course of interest for her latest exhibition 'a matter of time', she was not expecting the response she received.
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"I got more than 100 entries from textile artists all over the world and they all have interpreted the theme differently," she said.
"They could use any techniques but what I was looking for was cloth and stitch, in any kind of combination.
"But anything goes and I had no idea how people would interpret the theme. I thought I'd get lots of clocks but I only got a couple so it's really interesting to see what people came up with."
One of the featured works was created by a Queanbeyan local, Elizabeth Rose, who explored the concept of time through the notion of quarters in her aptly named piece, 'The Quarters'.
"'The Quarters' is quite a classical patchwork design of these hourglass blocks but if you stand back it gets really, really three dimensional," Smith said.
"This whole exhibition is about exploring the fourth dimension and she has gone into the fourth dimension by talking about how time is so often divided into quarters, such as quarter centuries, financial quarters, even football games have quarters, so she talks about all of that."
Brenda Smith's textiles exhibition 'a matter of time' opened at The Q Exhibition Space on Tuesday, June 28, and will be featured until Saturday, July 16.