Textile artist Sue Dennis, with a pattern of creating innovative quilts, brings her long history in crafts and strong skills with fabric to the contemporary art quilt format. Her quilts are bold and colourful, catching the eye and the imagination.

Early memories of seeing her Slovakian Grandmother’s colourful embroideries, sewing lessons at school and dressmaking for herself and her young family gave Sue a love of creating and sewing which remains strongly with her today as she designs and stitches her contemporary art quilts.

Sue began her quilting career in 1990 while living in the remote mining town of Mt. Isa, north-west Queensland, Australia.

Traditional patterns were a starting point with bright colours, machine piecing and machine quilting favoured. In the isolation fabrics and books were mail-ordered from out of town, and many applique and piecing techniques were tried.

Today, responses to the environment - natural, urban, political or social characterise her diverse work. Colour, shape, texture and stitching are used to express these responses. Curiosity about a topic or new technique leads to a “what if” approach and further exploration, resulting in a new series.

Her current work delves further into the Australian landscape using hand dyed and machine created fabric.

Sue is an award-winning textile artist with numerous prizes to her credit and has exhibited widely in numerous exhibitions throughout Australia, the United States of America, Great Britain, Europe and New Zealand. Her work is represented in the collection of the Immigration Museum, Melbourne, Australia and private collections in Alaska, USA and Australia.

Sue’s work has featured as part of international touring exhibitions and has been published in Fiberarts, Craft Arts, Textile Fibre Forum, Down Under Quilts and Australian Patchwork and Quilting.

Other related activities include teaching, hand dyeing fabric, judging, Board member of TAFTA and membership of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Quilts International Inc., American Quilters Society, Queensland Quilters Inc., The Quilters Guild of NSW Inc. and Sunnybank Quilters group.