Western Terrace: Common Thread Exhibition

A lively craft workshop with people engaging at a table surrounded by colorful fabric art panels hanging in the background, evoking creativity and community.

Western Terrace: Common Thread Exhibition

Celebrate International Women’s Day at PHIVE with the Fabric Connections community!

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Celebrate International Women’s Day at PHIVE with the Fabric Connections community! For nearly three years, our makers have gathered to create vibrant, joyful textile art. Discover a playful collection of colourful works crafted over the past year, along with life-size textile portraits that beautifully capture both individuality and our shared humanity.

Discover the joy of embroidery with artist Anney Bounpraseuth in this beginner-friendly workshop. Create a colourful felt patch that can be used in a variety of decorative or practical ways while learning new techniques along with the friendly Fabric Connections community. Light refreshments will be served.

When: Wednesday 11 March, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Where: Level 3, Western Terrace

Registration: Spaces are limited with some seats and standing room. Registration is essential. As this is an outdoor venue, please dress accordingly. For access requirements please contact PHIVEtickets@cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au   

 

Meet the Artists

An artist stands confidently in a studio, surrounded by portrait paintings on wooden walls. Art supplies and brushes are scattered on tables, creating a creative and lively atmosphere.

 

Linda Brescia is a Western Sydney-based artist who investigates the banalities and complexities of everyday life experiences and rituals through painting, photography, sculpture and performance. Her practice explores dynamics around visibility and invisibility, masking, care and self-assertion.

Major projects include Linda Brescia: Holding up the Sky (2018–2019), a solo exhibition at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Skirts (2021-2022), a C3West project through the Museum of Contemporary Art and Penrith City Council and A Girl Like You (2022), a survey exhibition of recent and newly commissioned works at Penrith Regional Gallery. 

Linda has had a long history of facilitating workshops and community projects for numerous organisations and groups and is currently working as an artist mentor with We Are Studios in Blacktown and artist facilitator for Fabric Connections at PHIVE in Parramatta. 

Linda’s work has been presented in exhibitions and programs for Artspace, Sydney; Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; Penrith Regional Gallery; Cementa; SafARI 2014; King Street Gallery, Sydney; and MOP, Sydney. She has completed a 2021-2023 artist residency with Parramatta Artists' Studios in Rydalmere, and in 2020 Brescia was awarded the Blacktown City Art Prize for her portrait of American patron of the arts Peggy Guggenheim. Her work is held in the collections of Western Sydney University, Penrith Regional Gallery, Artcell Collection Management, Blacktown City Counci, Liverpool Powerhouse and private collections.

A woman wearing a red cardigan and cat-eye glasses stands confidently in front of a colorful mural depicting various abstract and human figures. The mural features vibrant flowers, dynamic shapes, and women in diverse poses, conveying creativity and empowerment. Her expression is poised, adding to the vibrant and artistic atmosphere.

 

Anney Bounpraseuth has been featured on ABC TV and iView, ABC Radio National, FBI Radio’s Canvas program, and in Frankie Magazine and The International Cultic Studies Association journal. Since 2001 she has exhibited in galleries across NSW with solo shows at Fairfield City Museum and Art Gallery and Bankstown Arts Centre, with work held in local and international private collections.

The Western Terrace is a series of creative gatherings, performances and workshops taking place underneath the golden hour, as the sun sets, facing West, thinking West. Imagining the Western Terrace as an extension of their own homes, gardens and balconies, the series features artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and community sharing domestic ritual collectively.