PATCHWORK, APPLIQUE, QUILT

The patchwork and applique quilt, PLANT TUCKER: ABOVE GROUND, by Pat Forster, is one of 15 designed and stitched by WA Inspired Art Quilters for an exhibition, acknowledging and celebrating the life of Fany Balbuk Yooreel, a Noongar aboriginal activist in the 19th century and her aboriginal culture.
Seeds, fruit, fungi, nectar and gum, some of which are depicted in the border fabric, were gathered in coolamons (shallow dishes) cut from the bark of trees in the shape shown appliqued in the quilt centre. Access to the many traditional gathering grounds were barred with white settlement.
Machine embroidered text reads:'women collected seed nuts'fruit nectar gum fungus Seeds were ground for cakes'.zamia nuts were soaked'
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