Sister Barbarella Ars Erotica – Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt panel

Quilt panel, part of Australian AIDS Memorial Quilt, in memory of 'Sister Barbarella Ars Erotica', cotton, made in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 1990 Rectangular quilt panel, portrait orientation, depicting a bearded and bespectacled nun (Sister of Perpetual Indulgence), holding a placard with the inscription 'Cruise Men not Missiles', and a bouquet of red roses. The nun has a grey habit and white coif and wimple with a pink triangle in the middle of the nun's forehead. The nun stands against a stained glass background. To the left of the nun's head there is a pink triangle with a white circle in the middle of it. Inside the circle there is a letter B surrounded by three pink phalluses. To the right of the nun from the shoulders down there is a series of 'stained glass windows' with the following wording SISTERS of PERPETUAL INDULGENCE Sydney; IN MEMORY of; Sister Barbarella Ars Erotica; Professed 25.9.82; and Died 18.8.89 This quilt was made in Sydney in 1990 by other members of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence,