Curriculum Vitae for Merrilyn George
Qualifications and Fellowship
Homecraft Teachers Certificate !966
Home Economics Teachers Diploma 1981
Diploma Specialist Subjects (Sec) 2005
Royal Society of
Employment Record
Feilding Agricultural High School 1974
Major subjects taught in the above schools to University Entrance/ level 3
Textile Technology
Visual Arts
Art History
Maori Language
Maori Culture
Food Technology and Nutrition
Field Maori
Adult Education classes and teacher workshops taken over last 6 years
Quilting Arts
Dyeing to Colour
The Art Quilt
Creative Textile Techniques
Mud Painting
Taaniko weaving
Pacific Patterns
Icon painting
Maori design
Surface design
Awards and publishing- quilting
I have had quilts accepted in all national exhibitions since 1997.
Best Wall Quilt 1997 NANZQ
Two suitcase awards 1997
1998 Best of Country World Quilt and Textile Competition
1999-2003 World Quilt and Textile show
1999 Merit Best machine quilting NANZQ
1999 Part of Bernina World Quilt appointment diary
1998-1999 Bernina advertisement 1998-99
Hoffman challenge 1997-1999(Winner)
2000 Norsewear exhibits (2)
2001 Opotiki Fibre and Fleece
2001 NANZQ symposium 2 suitcase merits and Best child’s quilt
2002 Braemar Gallery NSW Exhibition
2002-2004 Contemporary Quilts Te Pataka Porirua
2004 Auckland Exhibition to support Americas Cup
2005 Best Back Art NANZQ Auckland Symposium/Judge award
UNICEF cards 2004, 2005
2006 profile in ‘Stitch’
2010 profiled in Quilts around the World (Australasian/NZ section) by Spike Gillespie.
Exhibitions
2005 Auckland Taumata Gallery
1998 Cancer Society Ohakune
2000 Sing Aotearoa Exhibition for NZ Choral Festival
2004 The Mill, Dreadnought Road
2005 Winter Art Exhibition Ohakune
2007 Collective at Jensen Gallery Palmerston North
2009 Made in NZ 11 Exhibition
2011 Connections(Collective) Morrinsville
2014 Set Apart Whanganui July
2014 Set Apart Christchurch October
2015 Set Apart Cathedral of the Holy Spirit Palmerston North
2015 Set Apart Island Bay Wellington June and Marton October
Reviews/Writing
American Quilter Magazine Winter 1999
Quilters Newsletter 2005
Profile NZ Quilter No 52 July 2005
Regular review of individual quilts NZ Quilter
Top Tips NZ Quilter 2011
Review Set Apart NZ Quilter No 89
Quilters Companion (Australia) Issue 70 2014
Down Under Textiles(Australia) Issue 18 2015
Quilts in possession of
owners in NZ,
Maungarongo Marae and
History
Books published
1980
1990 Ohakune – Opening to a New World (recieved the J Sherrard award from Canterbury University for the best published regional books 1990).
Ohakune Karioi Rugby Football Club 100 years souvenir programme and history
2006 Editor,