Carol Wilkes is an experienced, multi-skilled Textile Artist and Tutor. She refers to herself as a Surface Embellishment Technician, and Experimentalist, in both Embroidery and Quilt Design practices.

Carol was raised in Tamworth in country NSW, and today resides in the picturesque Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney, where she works from her studio home. Fancy-work, knitting and dressmaking were some of her childhood passions. Hand embroidery became another addictive pastime before discovering the freedom and excitement of "free-motion embroidery"
Today Carol uses fabric and thread as her medium. She designs and embroiders complex, multi-layered images into finished artworks, contemporary wall quilts and fashion statements. Her creative artistry, free machine embroidery and collage techniques have developed as a result of her passion for fabric and fashion. Combining both tradition and modern techniques, she renders the fabric surface with her own unique style.

Carol has completed many years of formal study and the accumulation of extensive experience and knowledge has very much determined where she is today.
Carol believes that gone are the days when "art was for the viewing and textiles for the wearing".
It is an essential ingredient that her art works have impact, colour, texture and most of all, give great pleasure and curiosity to both viewer and wearer.

Carol is an accredited teacher with The Embroiderers Guild NSW Inc. and has taught and exhibited extensively with TAFE Colleges and Guilds throughout Australia, Japan and New Zealand.
Her work has been feature in many publications and books, as well as being held in many private collections. Her Art Quilts have been selected in travelling exhibitions such as "Australia Dreaming", "Australia Bounty" and "Under the Southern Cross". She has recieved awards as well as High Distinctions in many of the exhibitions she has entered.
Carol was selected as a joint recipient in the Quilters Gulid Inc. 2000 Sponsorship Scheme. She undertook a special project to further educate and promote Traditional Innovative and Contemporary Quiltmaking in Australia.