Winner Innovative & Winner Best Rookie Award

Barbara Hilford, Katikati.

"Parata ahi Brother Fire, wahine ua Sister Rain"

"Rain quenches fire, fire boils water , which is servant ,which is master?"

Merit Innovative

Barbara Bilyard, Auckland.

" Earth, Cosmology's Canoe"

"Earth our home and universe traveller. I like to think there are other ‘canoes’ voyaging through the universe, maybe to meet their life forms some day."
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Winner Traditional

Ros Lusk, Havelock North.

"Sunset after the Storm"

"I enjoyed the challenge of piecing my elemental quilt “Storm at Sea” and thought I’d try making another one playing with the placement of colours."
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Merit Rookie Award

Katherine Reeves, Hamilton.

"From the Deep"

"My inspiration and creative process rises from the deep. Ideas are often a bittersweet struggle to bring to the shallow waters and a more peaceful place; a completed quilt."

Other Selected Works

Kathleen Burford, Christchurch.

"Connection" (Innovative)

"The connection of the elements are the basis of natural resource and are human’s lifeboat for survival."

Norma Ewart, Whangamata.

"Nga hau e wha o Aotearoa" (Innovative)

"New Zealand – a long thin stretch of land nurtured by and at the mercy of the oceans and the four winds. My home. My country."

Bronwyn Furlan, Gisborne.

"Alchemy Elements" (Rookie, Innovative)

"Techniques learnt at Symposium 2007 inspired me to create this work incorporating the alchemy symbols for earth, fire, water and air."

Anne Groufsky, Christchurch.

"Rain" (Rookie, Innovative)

"The inspiration came from my fabric collection and a book of Hundertwasser’s paintings"

Anne Jolly, Hamilton.

"Conflagration" (Innovative)

"I wanted to experiment with a burning tool and acrylic felt, so it seemed appropriate to burn a layer and create fire, one of the elements. "

Anne Jolly Hamilton.

"Confrontation" (Innovative)

"Patterns in nature are portrayed by the conflict of the sea and the shore line cliffs – confrontation of the elements."

Ros Lusk, Havelock North.

"Storm at Sea" (Traditional)

"Having always loved the sea it was easy to choose water as my element. The traditional pattern, Storm at Sea, has always appealed to me."

Brenda McPartin, Upper Hutt.

"Elemental Headlines" (Innovative)

"The Elements make headlines in our newspapers when natural disasters such as bushfires, tornadoes, landslides and floods cause havoc around the world."

Marion Manson, Hamilton.

"The Power of Nature" (Rookie, Innovative)

"Mother Nature dealt a bitterly cruel blow to hundreds of thousands of defenceless people with the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. So many lives lost, so many hopes and dreams shattered. So many struggles ahead of the survivors, their every day lives ripped apart like the edges of this fabric, now disorganised and in turmoil."

Natalie Murdock, Thames.

"Papatuanuku - Earth Mother" (Rookie, Innovative)

"The earth is nurtured in the womb of Papatuanuku."

Nancy Neilson, Ohope.

"Elements of the Chathams" (Innovative)

"Windswept trees, rocks – from basalt columns to Tarawera ash – and rainbows are last memories of a Chatham Island holiday."

Ruth Nicholas, Upper Hutt.

"Earth Dance" (Traditional)

"The elements provide the energy that makes the earth dance."

Jennifer Patterson, Stratford.

"Contours of Nature" (Innovative)

"I wanted each element to have its own identity and be free. I let the use of colour flow from one element into the next."

Shirley Sparks, Rotorua.

"Beneath the Surface" (Traditional)

"Diving trips are regular topics of conversation between my husband and sons. A mystery to me! This is what I have expressed in my quilt."

Maria van Buel, Auckland.

"Elemental Colours" (Rookie,Traditional)

"I used colours to represent the four elements."

Annette Wilde Baxendell, Christchurch.

"Air, Fire, Earth, Water = Bush Sunset" (Innovative)

"The regular forms of our solid, central, tangible green earth dissolve into the fluid formless, ever-changing colours of the surrounding elements."

Congratulations to everyone involved.