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.

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”.

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.