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Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Robert Keith Brewster', cotton / paint / canvas, made by Manfred Wyss, New South Wales, Australia, 1993 A rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation. The panel is a black painted c…
Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Robert Keith Brewster', cotton / paint / canvas, made by Manfred Wyss, New South Wales, Australia, 1993 A rectangular quilt panel, landscape orientation. The panel is a black painted canvas with 'Robert Keith Brewster' painted across the lower edge of the panel in large orange block style letters. A large painted green eye, with inverted heart shaped teardrops, is positioned in the centre of the panel with five large bubbles attached with smaller radiating bubbles. In the top left corner is a bubble with two painted stylised athletes. Another bubble is below with a painted cow and 'Master of Science in Agriculture' painted in white. The third large bubble has 'Seaspray' painted in blue letters on a pale blue rectangular background and '21.8.50' painted below in orange. Smaller empty bubbles are flowing from the central eye with one bubble containing two gold painted plain rings. In the top right corner is a large bubble containing a painted rooster and ' A.P.I.A' painted below in small white letters. The fifth large bubble is in the lower left side with 'Bilyara' painted above a large painted eagle and 13.5.92 painted below. This quilt is in memory of Robert Keith Brewster (b.21.8.50 d.13.5.92). Robert was born in Seaspray in Victoria and died on his farm "Bilyara" in NSW. Bilyara is Aboriginal for eagle's nest. The five large bubbles on the quilt represent the five major steps through his life.He won five medals at the Gay Games in 1986 and competed in many Mardi Gras Fun Runs and City to Surfs, the last being in 1991. He was a founding member and former President of the Sydney Frontrunners Club from 1985 to 1989. His professional life was involved with A.P.I.A (the Australian Poultry Industry (?) Association) doing research and promotion of the poultry industry. The cow represents most things in agriculture.
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