Norma Parker Centre NSW – Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of four persons, cotton, made by the Norma Parker Correctional Centre for Women NSW AIDS Committee, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1991 Quilt panel, landscape orientation, on a light colour background. In the centre there are patchwork coloured flowers, including aboriginal colours, joined with coloured rope in a brown padded puff basket, with a blackboard with the following inscription 'Norma Parker Centre NSW Australia, a correctional centre for women, Project of the HIV/AIDS Committee'. On the top left hand side there is a painted red kangaroo and on the bottom left there is an Australian Aboriginal flag. On the top right there is an applique stylised boomerang with painted stylised pokerwork motifs. Underneath there is a painted koala appliquéd on to a painted tree and at the bottom right there is an appliquéd Australian flag. The quilt was made by the AIDS Committee, Norma Parker Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1991. The Norma Parker Centre was a correctional centre for women. It was located in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It closed in 2003.