Hetty van Boven

P.O. Box 283,

Esk Q 4312, Australia

Phone: 07-54241602

For a shorter CV

Personal

Hetty van Boven is a quilter, tutor and author, now focussing primarily on creating textile art.

Studies

Mainly self-taught, but attended workshops with overseas tutors Caryl Bryer Fallert, Joy Clucas, Marion Spanjerdt, Katie Pasquini and Joan Schultze. Also with various Australian tutors including Ken Smith, Wendy Wright and week long workshops with Trevor Weekes and Gabriella Verstraeten. Subjects covered were drawing, design, colour, machine embroidery, advanced patchwork techniques and machine quilting.

Tutoring experience

Hetty started teaching Patchwork and quilting in 1984.

The demand for her workshops increased to where it became her full time occupation and she travelled extensively to teach all aspects of patchwork and quilting. In Queensland many groups asked for repeat visits. She als tutored in South Australia, New South Wales, Alaska (USA), Canada, Netherlands and on Norfolk Island.

She still welcomes invitations to teach, holds regular Quilt ESKape weekends and continues on the faculty of Quilt University, where her Fabric Greetings course went online in 2005.

From 1997-2000, Jane Odgers of Alaska USA brought  a group of American quilters to Esk for a workshop with Hetty every year.

Publications

2003: " Shadow Appliqué" published  by That Patchwork Place, USA

1997: " From my garden, with love. An Elegant Quilt in Shadow Appliqué" self published

1991 "Double Wedding Ring" Kit and Instructions. 11 Page instruction booklet with perspex templates. Self published. Major updates in 1998 and 2004. Victorian Textiles and Hetty have joined forces and current kit has templates in fibre optic green with Hetty's instructions.

1990 "From Australia, with Love...a Patchwork Year" 24 Original Patchwork Designs. 108 pages. Published by Nuttrein Enterprises Pty. Ltd. ( Down Under Quilts) Beenleigh Q.

1988-present: Writing contributions to " Down Under Quilts" ( The first Aussie quilting magazine), "Australian Patchwork & Quilting" "Australian Country and Decorative Crafts" and "Quilters' Companion"  include designs, instructions and articles.

Exhibitions

2004 Esk Visitor Information Centre: "Colours and Textures" a collaborative exhibition with weaver Joan Mundy and button maker Gillian Toppenberg.

2003: Solo exhibition to coincide with "Shadow Applique" book launch. Esk Visitor Information Centre

1999 "Down Under Quilt Show" Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center, Alaska USA, collaborative exhibition with Cynthia Morgan.

1998 Queensland Arts Council Gallery, Brisbane " Touchables" collaborative exhibition of Wearable and Decorative Art with Jen Luck and Angela Humphrey.

Group exhibitions

1997 Queensland Quilters’ Quiltorama/96 Queensland Quilters’ Touring Exhibition of Challenge Quilts. 

1995 Queensland Quilters’ Quiltorama, Convention Centre, Brisbane.

1994 Eskibition (Esk Q)

1992 Queensland Quilters’ Quiltorama, Brisbane

1991/92 Queensland Quilters' "Love You, Queensland" touring exhibition

1990 Quilters' Feeling Lelystad, The Netherlands

1988-89 Australian Quilters Association, Melbourne

1988 Armidale Quilt Symposium

1984/89 Several exhibitions with Queensland Quilters

1983/88 Several exhibition with the Quilters Guild, Sydney

Local Shows

Grants/prizes

2007: Nanango Art Show: First prize Wearable Art section. 
The prize: a scholarship to Artfest in Grafon will be taken up next year. 

2006: Regional Art Development Fund Grant and Queensland Arts Council Grant to attend " The Pacific Edge" the national annual Regional Art Conference in Mackay.

2005 Regional Art Development Fund grant to attend RADF State Conference in Maryborough

1999 Regional Art Development Fund grant to attend workshops with Caryl Bryer Fallert

1994 Travelling grant from Queensland Quilters to cover tutoring tour to North Queensland

1994 RADF grant to attend Fibre Forum 1994 in Mittagong, including a 5 day workshop.

1994 Best Craft Entry Eskibition (Esk)

Quilts were featured in:

The Proserpine Guardian featured Hetty and her quilts in August 2000.

The Queensland Country Life did an article with colour photo in September 2000

Various newspaper in Alaska and BC Canada February/March 1999.

1990 Quilters' Feelings, published and edited by Nel van der Linden, Hilversum, The Netherlands.1988 Australian Quilts 1988: A Vision Unfolding, ed. Barbara Meredith. Published by Patchworkers and Quilters of New England Inc.

1988 The Australian Patchwork and Quilting Bicentennial Diary, ed. Paul and Julie Cruise, published by House on the Hill

1988 American Quilter Vol. IV, No 1.

Numerous  issues of Down Under Quilts

Workshop subjects

Classes are offered in Patchwork, Appliqué, Quilting and Machine Embroidery. Workshop subjects and techniques are reviewed and updated constantly and new workshops added to respond to current trends. More on workshops.

Events coordinated:

2005: "Colours and Textures" Esk Visitor Information Centre.

1995 and 1998: Glen Rock Quilters Show and Tell

1995 - 1997: Glen Rock Quilters Challenges

Since 1992, Quilt ESKape weekends have been organised twice a year with motel accommodation for out-of-town students.

Exhibition coordinator: "Common Threads" Quilt Show of students' work in Esk 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991.

Creative Clothing Fashion Parades for Esk Shire at World Expo 88.

Judging

Invited to judge quilts at: Quilters' Quarters Challenge 1991, St. Peter's Art and Craft show Caboolture 1991, Dysart Art and Craft Show 1992. Laidley Agricultural Show (Needlework) 1996. Nanango "Quilts Across Queensland" 2003. Stanthorpe Show 2006

Memberships

 Esk Shire Council Regional Art Development Fund Committee. Glen Rock Quilters Esk, Brisbane Valley Arts Council management committee member.

A participating artist in the Artlink Program of the Queensland Arts Council 1992/96