Feature Feature
one Colourful
you consider that Ann shares
and teaches her techniques with
students regularily. She teaches
dyeing, fabric painting, machine
morning
embroidery and patchwork. As a
graduate of the City and Guilds for
Design and Craft Stitched Textiles,
Machine Embroidery she offers
Sherry Nugent visits with Dubin
lectures and workshops throughout
Winner Ann Fleeton
Europe.
Her work varies in construct, though
play of colour being a consistent
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to be included
in these exhibitions
is great enough...
presence. Anne uses hue, shade,
intensity and proportion to make
beyond the prizes
her textiles stand out or blend
being offered.
harmoniously. All this, and Ann
still achieves incredible results
using white in her Antarctica
Ann reflects on her early da
’
ys
accepted the exhibitions that qualify
series of work which showcases
in 1980s when there little or no
her as a talented applicant.
her transparency and windows
resources for quilters. As a result, In April, Ann can be found in
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n occasion, I’ve met Ann
smiling Ann at the lane entrance
technique. Her training as a
she became self taught and the New Zealand, teaching and
Fleeton in our local guild,
leading to her house. At the
geologist is evident through an
ability to overlap textiles in her work lecturing at the Quilt Wellington
though not often and not intimately.
Georgian home, we walked the
organic, yet a structured presence
grew. She began with motivators Symposium, New Zealand, (www.
steps that led us to an enormous
seen in many of her pieces.
like Jennifer Kingston and Ann Fahy
quiltsymposiumnz.com). To see
my immediate impression was that
front door which in turn opened
During my visit, she unveiled to
(QuiltArt). She pushes herself and more of Ann and her work, visit
she is open and kind; quiet and
to rooms whose ceilings reach
me an exquisite replication of a
finds her pleasure in knowing she is
www.annfleeton-quiltartist.com.
observing. she exudes an artist’s
high into the heavens. The house
topography map done in cloth
casual stance, and up close, her
was grand and yet it embodied
textile using many techniques and
eyes reveal depth and vision.
Ann’s warm personality with a
portraying symbolism and folklore.
refined living space intermingled
Although she is a native to my We move to her study and she
with toys and other belongings
area, I met her work before I met presents quilt after quilt, art upon
of the grandchildren she minds.
her. Through shows and similar
As winner of the Overall Award
art. Again, my concentration as a
It was a home of love and lovely
circles my eyes would be drawn
of Excellence and California
journalist wanes and my eyes as
home. With a cup tea and a sweet
to her innovative, yet primitive,
Gold Medal in the Royal Dublin
a quilting voyeur wander. As Ann
pastry, we sat down and began our
interpretations of colour and shape.
Society Annual Crafts Competition
describes her work, its inspiration
interview.
She mixes traditional patchwork
both in 2002 and 2000, Ann is
and her methods, my mind stills
with new techniques and a
When you get an opportunity the only repeat winner. She was
and all it wants to do is take in
multitude of textiles.
to meet –further, interview and also champion of overall in “New
the beauty and impressiveness of
query--someone whose work is truly Materials for the New Millennium”
On a recent morning, Ann kindly
the patchwork and quilting. I’m
inspiring and interesting, it can be exhibition at the Carrefour
invited me to her home in Killney.
motivated to begin conjuring up
challenging. Concentration, that is. Européen du Patchwork, Alsace,
Following a string of embarrassing
projects of my own for a brave day.
So many questions. France in 2001.
turnarounds, I was met by a Which is not that farfetched, when
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