"[7] At her solo show at Realities Gallery in Melbourne Fedderson explained ""Over the years my work has changed greatly, at first, weaving was a craft I enjoyed, but slowly as it took on a sculptured look it became more of an art.
She found the trip tough and lonely, and contrary to her grandfather's experiences as a government official there, being a white woman on her own was threatening, but in works exhibited at her 1975 solo show at Bonython Galleries she "tried to catch the mood of that strange land the flash of blue water, the yellow glow of a valley of houses the deltas, the erosion and the subtleties of the Sahara.”[8] Around this time she and husband Lorenz amicably separated.
[1] Producing large-scale weavings and wall hangings incorporating mixed media including jute, linen, steel and rubber and with a more artistic intention, she exhibited with Bonython Galleries.
[6] Alan McCullouch describes her as "a leading creative weaver [whose] work includes tapestries, and woven soft sculptures as well as plaster life-size organic forms, adorned with feathers and twigs which offer wry statements on animal/human life and suffering in wars and inhumanity.
"[11] Elwyn Lynn was fulsome in his praise at the July 1970 group show with Ken Reinhard, Fred Cress and Jamie Boyd at Bonython Galleries; "Jutta Feddersen’s tied, handspun, woven and knotted wallhangings deserve the highest praise; space, not some critics’ quaint notion that silence is the right attitude before really fine art, limits expression of one’s enthusiasm for these heirs of Abstract Expressionism and opponents of Bauhaus propriety; there are splendidly deep-textured rugs ($300 and $360), a five-foot-high orange ogre-like jelly-fish with hanging green, crimson, and purple legs or roots; a heavily knotted black-green jute banner has two threatening steel eyes; a linen-and-rayon hanging has tails of the old grey mare bound into loops with brilliant colors.
But these forms are exorcised of their original awesomeness and baptisted into respectability by the pleasing materials used knotted jute, tied linen, silk and wool - and by the appealing simplicity of their construction.