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The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project is a collection of embroidered panels designed to tell the story of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia, through stitch.
Inspired by the 77 elaborate and intricately designed British Quaker Tapestries, Australian Friends have followed the same formal design pattern.
The Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery Project began in 2007 with ideas for the Australian panels come from all over Australia. The intricate embroideries depict local Quaker history beginning with the arrival in 1770 of the first Quaker, Sydney Parkinson, a botanical artist and a member of Captain Cook’s expedition.
The panels have been stitched by Friends all around Australia, in a project coordinated by the
Friends in Stitches.
The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the 400th Anniversary of the birth of George Fox, one of the founders of The Religious Society of Friends, who became known as Quakers.
The exhibition is being hosted at NSW Parliament by the Hon Alex Greenwich MP, Member for Sydney, in whose electorate the Devonshire Street Quaker Meeting House stands.
How to see the exhibition
Visit the exhibition at NSW Parliament House on weekdays, 9am to 5pm between 3 and 28 April. Access is to the left of the building via the security gatehouse.
