DIANNE FINNEGAN - TEXTILE ARTIST
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AWARDS/RECOGNITION

Nominated for Senior Volunteer, NSW Volunteer of the Year

​Nominated for Museums and Galleries NSW Imagination Awards in the category of

Individual Achievement: Volunteer, for
Services to Sydney Living Museums


2018: Highly Commended - Tasmanian Art Quilt Prize

2006: Artist in Residence for North Sydney Council
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2002: Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award -  National Quilt Register website (contributed to original research)

2001: National Sponsorship Awards, Australian Financial Review Magazine , national finalist - Commercial Bravery

2001: Australian Sports Medal for Fundraising - Fundraising Institute of Australia

2001: Commercial Bravery Award, Quilts - Australian Financial Review Magazine 
 

2001: Volunteer of the Year finalist - National Sponsorship Awards

2000: ​Most Outstanding Fundraising Project for Fundraising - Institute of Australia

2000: Australian Sports Medal for fundraising - Sydney Paralympic Games 


1998: Best Member’s Quilt, the Hunters Hill Quilt Show

1996: Best Member’s Quilt, the Hunters Hill Quilt Show

1993/4: Jewel Pearce Patterson International Quilt Teacher Scholarship, Houston, USA,

1993: Best Local Quilt - Hunters Hill Quilt Show
          Artist in Residence, The Scots School, Albury

1988: Australian Bicentennial Award, Woman of Achievement

1988: Quilt Australia Award in the first national quilt exhibition









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JUDGE
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2018: Photographic exhibition, Royal North /Shore Hospital

2008
: The Quilters Guild Calendar Quilts

2001: Royal Canberra Show,
           N
arrabri Cotton Expo

2000: Melbourne Quilt Show, 
           QUILTS 2000

1996: The Quilters’ Guild Exhibition
           Melbourne Quilt Exhibition, juror

1995: Chairman of subcommittee to select a quilt for the Atlanta Olympic Committee

​1994: Chairman of selectors of Colours of Australia, touring quilt exhibition, member of subcommittee
​           Royal Canberra Show, St Ives Show

1990: Royal Sydney Horticultural and Agricultural Show, St Ives Agricultural Show

1989: Hunters Hill Quilt Show
          Royal Sydney Horticultural and Agricultural Show

1988: Quilt Australia


VOLUNTARY WORK

2021: Secretary, textiles Sydney

2018: Consultant to Ben Quilty, work with Syrian refugees' life jackets

2012: Arts and Heritage Committee Royal North Shore Hospital, artist representative

2006: 2018 Team leader, Soft Furnishings Group, Sydney Living Museums

2001 -2: Committee, Australian Quilt Study Group

2001: Consultant, Australian Quilt document Register
           Editor, committee member, Furniture History society of Australia
           Board member, The Good Age Foundation, Royal North Shore Hospital

1998-2000: Executive, Exhibition Secretary QUILTS 2000, special fundraising project for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games

1997: Exhibition committee, catalogue for Sydney Quilt Stories at Elizabeth Bay House  Historic Houses Trust
         
1994: Colours Exhibition committee and author of book, The Quilters' Guild

1992:  President and Exhibition Secretary, Hunters Hill Quilters

1990: Newsletter editor, Hunters Hill Quilters

1989: Coordinator, community quilts for palliative care ward, Greenwich Hospital

1988 - 2019: Fundraising for charities and museum quilt 
collections

1986 - 88: President, The Quilters" Guild
           Convenor, Quilt Australia '88, the first national quilt exhibition 

1985: Publicity officer, The Quilters Guild

1984: President, Lane cove Centrehouse Community Arts and Craft Centre



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​EDUCATION
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2001: Diploma in Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diploma in the History of Decorative Arts, University of Sydney, Continuing Education

1996: Workshop with Elisabeth Busch

1993: Workshop with Nancy Crow at the International Quilt Festival, Houston

1988: Colour and design course, School of Colour and Design, Sydney

1983-94: Courses and workshops in colour and design, quiltmaking

1980-82: Learnt quilting in Canada, taking courses and workshops from major teaching artists in Canada and USA

1982: Certificate of Achievement in Fibre Arts, Canada

1980: Diploma of Education (University of Adelaide)

1977: Master of Arts (University of Adelaide)
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