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    Getting to know … NERIDA HANSEN

    Feb 05, 2020 4 minutes

    The licensors for May Gibbs contacted me early in 2019 and asked if I would be interested in licensing her art. Of course I was absolutely honoured and jumped at the chance. I was so excited to work with the fabulous young textile designer Ellie Whittaker from the Gold Coast to curate our yardages for the first collections. She is very nostalgic about May Gibbs, and with buckets of talent for fabric yardage design she was the perfect choice to help me realise my dreams. Together we set about carefully transforming years-old art into luscious patterns. We are now working together on new designs for 2021 and plan to keep

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