Peter Grady – Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Peter M Grady', wool / paper / synthetic material / leather, made by family and friends, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1991 Rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation, cream background, the words 'PETER M. GRADY, 1958 - 1991' in paint, small panel sewn on with inscription 'the melody is not the voice, and the notes anymore than the painting is the pigment and the canvas.' underneath. There is a large block of Mambo material 'the Bull design' running from the top to the lower edge on the left hand side. There are two rows of nineteen blocks on the lower right side of the panel as follows: Top row hand-embroidered butterfly with the word 'Mum', blue and white square with the word 'Dad', plain red square with the word 'Melinda' painted on, cross-stitched black and white yin and yang symbol, heart outlined in yellow ribbon containing cut out photograph and embroidered words 'Peter Grady', small woollen knitted square in cable pattern, machine embroidered flower with small embroidered symbol in yellow, two blue and red fish painted on with the words 'rumblefish' and 'robin', blue and yellow embroidered 'Susan, Laurie, Megan' with stylised embroidered shapes embroidered, girl, two dolphins and birds. Bottom row 'Terence Grady' written in pen, hand embroidered with the words 'Deirdre, Eliot, Laura and Adam and spray of flowers, petit-point 'Adam', square of petit-point in two triangles blue and green and a small pink heart, hand-embroidered on blue background 'Mark' and two music symbols, pink and cream patchwork square with the word 'Fiona' stitched on, hand-embroidered bunch of balloons, cream patch on a coloured background with the printed words 'Questo fazzoletto non asciuga le lacrime!' (This handkerchief not drying the tears!) and the word 'Moschino' at the bottom., grey leather square with a star cut-out over cream, green cotton hand-embroidered with the word 'Terry' and two party hats, hand-embroidered square of yellow, blue, green and cream.