Paint and stitch an art quilt with Colleen Weste

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 COLLEEN WESTE has had a fascination for many years for dyeing cloth to create unique wearable art and wall quilts in silk. She is skilled in handpainting silk, shibori resist dyeing, felting, layering and machine stitching.

She is author of the book Silk Painting (Penguin) and Shibori/Silk Painting for Art to Wear and Silk Art Quilts and has a Grad Dip in Textile Design from RMIT. She has attended master classes in Shibori including a study tour of Japan and the World Shibori Symposiums in France and Melbourne.

Colleen is a member of ATASDA and Aust/NZ Shibori Group.

A founding member of the Botanical Gardens Natural Dye Group, she tutored at Swinburne University Costume & Design and gave workshops at the NGV and throughout Australia & New Zealand. 

Colleen had her own retail outlet in Melbourne and now paints from her studio in the bush. She has exhibited in solo and group shows including Paris at the World Shibori Symposium and Australian/NZ Shibori shows around Aust and New Zealand.Other artist-in-residence programmes include Uluru, Secondary Colleges Melbourne.

In 2006 she opened The Gallery Mt Macedon, an arts collective of twenty six Macedon Ranges artists. Her work is featured at the gallery and open studios programmes.