Textile Artist Exhibition
“Stitching Stories” will be exhibited at Sheffield Art Gallery for two months, in August and September. The exhibition will show Cindy’s colourful work encompassing many different textile art techniques.
There are many items for sale as well as others only on display, forging an appreciation of the variety of Cindy’s creative processes.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition Dates: 2nd August to 30th September 2025
Exhibition Opening: 4pm 2nd August 2025
Exhibition Location: Sheffield Art Gallery
6 Pioneer Close, Sheffield 7306 Tasmania
Exploring the Exhibition
There will be 40 items on display for the two month exhibition.
These will include original textile art pieces that will be framed and a glass cabinet full of sculptural pieces and special commissions.
Discover How Textile Arts Are Created
Cindy has used QR codes to link videos on how some of the pieces have been created.
These videos are not too long and a great insight for those who have not seen the process of free motion machine embroidery and dissolvable fabric technique before.
Cindy’s ever popular bookmarks will be available for purchase too.
Time to Explore Your Creativity with this Exhibition
This exhibition is for everyone. If you are interested in art, sculpture, textiles, free motion machine embroidery, hand embroidery, working with dissolvable fabric or just like looking at gorgeous things, this is the place for you.
Cindy has also designed a gown especially for this exhibition that will showcase multiple textile art techniques.
Her lovely model Stephanie will be parading the gown at the Opening Event and it will be on display in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Tasmanian Textile Artist
Cindy is a textile artist who lives in Barrington Tasmania.
She has a deep desire to work with beautiful colours and textures in fabric and thread.
The Flow of Creativity
Often ideas will come to her out of the blue and come to fruition quickly.
Others take more time and like the tortoise in the fairytale, will get there eventually.
Cindy believes that not all artworks have to have a meaning behind them.
They can be just beautiful for beauty’s sake.
Thus the title of this exhibition “Stitching Stories of Colour, Texture and Beauty”.
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Creating a New Fabric Through Art
Not all of Cindy’s works involve dissolvable fabric, but the majority do.
She traps fabric in between two layers of this special dissolvable material and then works free motion machine embroidery over it.
Once dissolved a new fabric has been created. This can be moulded or completely washed out for a softer material to be used in other projects.
Other techniques used are hand embroidery, embellishing with wool and silk rovings, dressmaking and free motion machine embroidery on Cindy’s own eco dyed woollen fabric.
Exhibiting Artist Cindy Thompson
Cindy is a Tasmanian contemporary Textile Artist.
The great range of colours and textures available are pure joy to her as she creates her works using different sewing and embroidery methods.
Cindy moved to Tasmania in 2017, and she finds much inspiration here for her sewing endeavours.
She sells some of her small artworks locally, which are a small taste of her larger projects that have both tactile and visual appeal.
Commissions have been a recent inclusion in Cindy’s practise and include twelve art brooches for an Amazon TV series filmed here in Tasmania.
Most of all Cindy is driven by the satisfaction of the process in creating for pleasure.
Camaraderie is also important to her as she hosts three different stitching and creative art groups in her newly build studio.
It is in this appealing studio space where she teaches classes, both in groups and privately.
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Read Cindy’s Artist Profile story here to learn more about this talented textile artist.
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