Hilary Peterson
Visual Artist - Pambula
Creating textile informed mixed media works exploring liminal coastal environments through layered abstraction, natural fibre and organic pattern systems. Drawing on close observation of marine ecologies through snorkelling and immersion in nature, her practice evokes shifting aerial perspectives, tidal landscapes and the sensory memory of place.
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Hilary Peterson
Visual Artist - Pambula
textiles, painting, artist's books
My work brings together a love of the natural world, its colour,
pattern and texture combining drawing, printing, painting,
dyeing, fabric and stitch.
It investigates the fragility and beauty of what I see.
East Gippsland Art Gallery
May 1 - June 6 2026
Bodies of Water & Liminal Spaces
The places, flora, and fauna which have inspired these abstracted landscape works, draw from moments of quiet being, on land and in water. Through texture, colour, pattern and shape, each piece is an invitation to slow down, observe, and listen. Living on the coast Hilary concentrates on the shifting, fluid state of the shoreline that transitions into vegetation and forests. Drawing from the organic forms of land, water, and sky, she explore unseen rhythms and textures of the natural world. Those fleeting moments of pattern, colour and movement that exist beyond literal depiction. She translate these encounters through drawing, printing, painting, dyeing, fabric and stitch experimenting to find what feels right for her. Her aim is to evoke memories and to awaken the senses to the sound of the water lapping, trees rustling, birds signalling each other, and to the smell of damp decaying vegetation, salt and seaweed, crabs scuttling, and the seemingly silent movement of fish and other creatures as they go about their lives.
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International Textile Biennale 2023
This exhibition will travel to 8 galleries during 2023 and 2024.
Visit www.fibrearts.net.au for schedule
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The Cad Factory, Western Riverina Arts and the Spencer Family are delighted to announce that Hilary Peterson from Pambula, on Yuin country in the South Coast, has been awarded the 2021 Joyce Spencer Textiles Fellowship.
The Fellowship will support Hilary to present a new exhibition in September 1 - 20, 2023 at the Spiral Gallery in Bega exploring the significance of the Panboola Wetland at Pambula. The exhibition research is combining ecology, history and artmaking to tell a complex story around place.
Hilary has been a practicing artist for over twenty years combining painting, drawing, printing, dyeing and stitching. Her career began as a textile designer, and in 2002 she made the move into creative practice combining her textiles knowledge with deeper philosophical concerns around our inter-connectivity to the landscape and place. Hilary often uses natural dyeing in her work to attach what she is making to place, and fixing it within time.
“I am thrilled to be the recipient of the Joyce Spencer Textile Fellowship and grateful for her bequest that will allow me the time to produce a cohesive body of textile work that also expresses my wider environmental concerns and interest in wetlands. I am inspired by Joyce’s creativity, commitment to innovation and sharing through teaching and hope to further her legacy.” ~ Hilary Peterson
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