Women's Domestic Needlework Group

[1][2] The other members of the collective were Joan Grounds, Bernadette Krone, Kathy Letray, Patricia McDonald, Noela Taylor and Loretta Vieceli.

[3] Phoenix and McMahon collected d'oyleys from second-hand shops and donations, and began running weekly workshops, open to the general public, initially at the Tin Sheds and then at the South Sydney Women's Centre.

[4] The group collaborated with Earthworks Poster Collective to produce a series of screenprints about women's needlework, which served as wall panels for the exhibition.

[6] Needlework was strategically chosen to reflect the traditional patterns, symbols and images that have reoccurred throughout history, and the common techniques that many women would relate to.

[6] As Australian writer and journalist Anne Summers argues in the exhibition catalogue, "It is only at this (level) of culture - everyday life - that women have an explicit and acknowledged place.