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Dr Annette Gero, one of Australia's leading quilt historians, has been documenting and collecting quilts since 1982. She has travelled all over Australia giving lectures, curating exhibitions of Australian quilts and documenting quilts in private homes and public collections. She gained her PhD in 1982. In 1986 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (London) in recognition of her work on Australian quilt history. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Quilt Study Center, Nebraska, USA and an Associate Fellow; Founder and Patron of the Sydney Quilt Study Group; Past President of the Quilt Study Group of Australia; Lecturer, the Australian Academy of Decorative Arts, and her contribution to the history of Australian quilting has been documented in the Archives of the National Library of Australia. Canberra. She has lectured on quilt history in the USA, Canada, New Zealand, France and England, and exhibited quilts throughout Australia and at the Musee De L'impression Sur Etoffes, Mulhouse France; the Musee des Traditions et Arts, Normandy, France; the International Quilt Show in Houston, USA and the European Quilt Symposium, Alsace, France. Her first book “Historic Australian Quilts” is now out of print.

 

Annette Gero gives lectures, exhibitions and quilt shows.

Contact her at annettegero@bigpond.com

For more about Annette's book “The Fabric of Society - Australia's Quilt Heritage from Convict Times to 1960” please click here

 

To order Annette's book “The Fabric of Society - Australia's Quilt Heritage from Convict Times to 1960”: please download our order form and post with your cheque or money order to:

 

Annette Gero,
PO Box 398, Neutral Bay
NSW 2089 Australia

 

For orders outside Australia please email annettegero@bigpond.com for postage costs.

 

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