Brenda Wood is an Australian textile artist working primarily with painted fabric and stitch. Her practice explores colour, pattern, memory and visual language, moving between abstraction, portraiture, landscape and social narrative.

Across her work, Wood is drawn to what lies beneath the surface — the patterns that reveal information, the stories that become overlooked, and the ways colour, texture and visual codes can invite us to look more closely.

Portraiture, and women whose stories deserve to be remembered.

Patterns and texture – weather and water forms

From Workshop in a Box to Rainbow Stash, Brenda Wood has created large-scale collaborative textile projects that bring artists and makers together through colour, technique and creative prompts. These projects have resulted in exhibitions across Australia and internationally.

Brenda Wood’s collaborative practice extends from Workshop in a Box to the Rainbow Stash series — large-scale participatory textile projects uniting artists across Australia, the United States and Europe. Each project pairs a structured colour or technique prompt with public exhibition outcomes, most recently touring internationally and premiering at Quilt Expo Beaujolais, France, in 2027.