Marion Gibson b.

Also known as Marion Gemmel, Marion G. Gibson
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Settled in Victoria. Although a mother to nine children, Gibson still had time to create the 'Friendship Quilt' now exhibited at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.
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needlewoman, was born and bred in Scotland. In 1854 she married John Gibson and soon afterwards sailed with him to Australia, settling at Colac, Victoria. There John practised his trade of bootmaker until 1875, when he fulfilled a lifetime ambition and bought a property outside Hay, which they called 'Narringa’. The Gibsons had nine children, eight boys and a girl. Marion Gibson’s Friendship Quilt (c.1890) is in the Powerhouse Museum.

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1999
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References [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 13859/1908'.>, <ExternalResource: Powerhouse Museum, '92/169 Table cover, Queen Victoria's Jubilee, embroidered, velvet/silk/gold thread, Marion Gibson, Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 1897', Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: 'NSW Death Records : 13859/1908'.>]
Alternative names
  • Marion Gemmel
  • Marion G. Gibson
  • Marion Gemmel
  • Marion G. Gibson
Arrivals
  • c.1854
  • c.1854
Related people
  • Gibson, John (spouse of)
  • Gemmel, William (child of)
  • Gemmel, Marion (child of)
  • Gibson, John (spouse of)
  • Gemmel, William (child of)
  • Gemmel, Marion (child of)
Related works
  • 92/169 Table cover, Queen Victoria's Jubilee, embroidered, velvet/silk/gold thread, Marion Gibson, Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 1897 (None)
  • Friendship Quilt (creator of)
  • Friendship Quilt (creator of)
Related collections
  • Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales (collected in)
  • Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, New South Wales (collected in)
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