Historical information
Nicole O’Loughlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works across a variety of mediums to explore societal issues, pop culture and the idea of the feminine. She works across textiles, painting, drawing and printmaking. Using traditional media in a contemporary context O’Loughlin challenges the idea of craft and pushes back against the industrialisation of the hand made.
COVID Dis-Comforter is a stitched journal in which the artist has documented the personal, political, and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The quilt’s aesthetics take inspiration from the Westbury Quilt made by Misses Hampson in Tasmania 1900-1903, held in the National Gallery of Australia Collection.
