Libby’s textile, pattern and colour interest began way before it became her actual practise. Libby’s mother changed the decor of their family home from room to room, once the whole house was completed… she began again.
Winifred’s pile of ‘Home Beautiful’ magazines provided her with new design approaches, patterns, textures and colour combinations. Growing up with the heavily patterned wallpapered walls, linoleum floors and ornately decorated bedspreads of the 70’s and 80’s, it is little wonder that Libby’s interest in fabric design took over her creative practise.
After completing a Fine Art and a Secondary Teaching degrees, the designing and making her own printed fabrics began when Libby studied Studio Textile Design and Production at Melbourne Institute of Textiles.
Libby then taught in the Textile Design and Printing course (now RMIT), and after moving to Bendigo in 2012, began her own studio practise.
Bachelor of Arts - Fine Art (Painting)
Ballarat University College, Ballarat 1988
Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary)
Art/Craft, Visual Communication majors.
LaTrobe University College of Northern Victoria, Bendigo 1990
Diploma of Studio Textiles - Design and Production
Melbourne Institute of Textiles, Brunswick 1999
Primarily using paper stencils, Libby’s aesthetic and process combine to create unique outcomes that celebrate the hand-made.
Libby lives and works on Dja dja warrung country and acknowledges the traditional owners of this beautiful country the Djaara people. Paying respect to elders and leaders past present and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Home is currently, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia