As a printmaker she has used textiles as much as paper and her sculptural muse finds expression in wonderfully exotic and exuberant cloth dolls.
She approached quilt making in a spontaneous rather than formal manner as it gave her lifelong love of fabric and colour complete expression.
She loves the sensual, tactile pleasure of handling cloth — tearing, cutting, printing and painting it to produce shimmering life embracing forms.
Convey's work was included in the 2010 exhibition 13 Australian Outsider Artists at Callan Park Gallery.
[4] In 2015, a survey exhibition of Sylvia Convey and her husband's work titled Double Vision was held at the Orange Regional Gallery.