AQIPP

AQIPP (Australian Quilts in Public Places) is an initiative of the AQA designed to enhance public awareness and appreciation of quilts. Every two years the AQIPP committee organises an exhibition, open to all, which is hung in a public building. The owner or occupier of the building agrees on a theme, the exhibition is judged, and the winning quilt is acquired by the AQA and permanently displayed in the chosen venue. The winner receives a substantial cash prize.

AQIPP: A new AQIPP Committee, comprising Susan King, Margaret Fleming, Margaret Tilley, Jacqy Wong, Denise Matthews Paddy Childs Green, Mary Wheeler, Ann Cocks and Olga Walters, was convened.

The next AQIPP exhibition, From Red Rocks to Coral Sea, is scheduled for March 30 - May 27, 2007 at the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Further details will be soon available in The Quilters Patch and in the Yearly Diary section of this site.

> Download the entry form as a PDF file here

Past Exhibitions

The 2001 AQIPP exhibition Quilted Journeys created for the Immigration Museum went to San Francisco in the USA. The exhibition ran from January 15 to April 27, 2003 at the Museum of Folk Art and Craft at Fort Mason. You can check out the museum's website at http://www.mocfa.org.

> View pictures from the San Francisco exhibition here

The winning quilt from the 2001 AQIPP exhibition Quilted Journeys, What Would You Take, by Sue Dennis, was presented to the Immigration Museum where it is now part of their collection.

In 1999 The Women in My Studio by Julie Haddrick of South Australia was hung in The Queen Victoria Women's Centre in Melbourne. The quilt is seen here at the AQIPP exhibition, with organiser Dijanne Cevaal.

In 1997 the quilt Salient Steel by Sharyn Hall of Queensland was designed for the Telstra Building headquarters in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne and now hangs in the atrium of that building. You can view this quilt here - coming soon.