Memories are made of This

IN OUR LIFETIME

Jenny Prevost Kathleen Flynn Helen Statham Elwyn Green Patons and Baldwin's Launceston mill embroidered by Elwyn Green

In Our Lifetime
a textile by and for Tasmanians

involved embroiderers from all over Tasmania to create an embroidered textile depicting 58 significant events remembered by Tasmanians, and the production of a website recording the stories and memories behind, or prompted by, the images.

Jenny Prevost embroidering an image

Some of the oldest Tasmanians, many now in residential care, suggested the memories for this work. The images, drawn by Elizabeth Barsham, are based on photographs from the Mercury Newspaper, State Archives and personal collections. These images were embroidered by groups throughout Tasmania, including members of the Tasmanian Embroiderers’ Guild, the Country Women’s Association, Eastern Shore Embroiderers and Senior Momentum.

Memories associated with these images are being recorded and placed by Tasmanians of every age on this website.

You are invited to share your memories of life in Tasmania, whether you grew up here or have come here to live.

So far, this heritage textile has been displayed at:

• Kingston Library and Online Access Centre
• Hobart - Women Tasmania
• Hobart - 50 and Better Centre
• CWA State Conference
• Clarence - SAGES Forum, CITYGATE
• Clarence - Rosny Library

EMBROIDERERS: M. Abell, 7321; Janet Avery, Latrobe; Joyce Bachelor, Sandfly; Di Baker, South Launceston; Margaret Barlow, Launceston; Sandra Batten, Oak Downs; Suzanne Butt, Launceston; Jill Cartwright, Lenah Valley; Helen Chell, Selbourne; Claire, Otago Bay; Dorothey Claridge, Bridport; C. Claxton, Perth; Heather Cooper, Devonport; Jo Curry, Devonport; W. Cuthbertson, Burnie; Wilma Dell, Devonport; S. Dingley, Hadspen; Pat Dobbie, Oak Downs; Bernice Dobson, Bridport; Kathleen Flynn, Launceston; Wynne Foley, Howrah; B. Gibbons, Ulverstone; Elwyn Green, Launceston; Mary Gregg, Bellerive; Mary Hanslow, Cambridge; Herbert Harding, Howrah; Isabel Hastie, Kingston; A.E. Hingston, Geilston Bay; P.Hingston, Wesley Vale; B. Ingram, Burnie; M. Jacques, Burnie; Molly Jenkins, Launceston; Shirley Johnson, Dunalley; Edith Johnson, Grindelwald; Jennifer Line, Otago Bay; Shirley Morrisby, Howrah; R. Naylor, Burnie; Mary Nye - Launceston; Ellinore Osborne, Montrose; Bev Paton, Wynyard; P.Pearce, Oatlands; Bev Perkins, Launceston; Jenny Prevost, Perth; M. Rhodes, Whitemark; A.M. Ridgway, Sheffield; Helen Statham, Launceston; Rosemary Stevenson, Launceston; Dorothy Story, Lebrina; Angela Stride, Huonville; Noela Treloar, Devonport; Christine Tyson, Lindisfarne; Helen West, Latrobe; Marie Wilson, Ulverstone; Mary Wood, Bridgewater; P.J. Young, Launceston.

Launceston Members of the Embroiderers' Guild of Tasmania working on "In Our Lifetime"
photos: Jillian Bath

"In Our Lifetime" - the finished textile
photo: Elizabeth Barsham