Fay Bottrell (b. 1927) textile artist and teacher, collaborated with Wessley Stacey on the book The Artist Craftsman in Australia: Aspects of Sensibility in 1972. The 1970s saw a revival in the fibre arts and with a new direction in off-loom, sculptural weaving. Bottrell’s work from this period is represented in the Craft Australia National Historic Collection. Bottrell received a grant to work with Barbara Huntington in 1979, and around that time, while living on the Central Coast, she made a mammoth work for the International year of the Child for the Arts Council of New South Wales. The Queensland Art Gallery has one of her tapestries, made in 1977 and reworked in 1980. She taught at the Alexander Mackie College, and Campbell was one of her students. At some point, they shared a studio, and she warmly recommended Campbell for a residency at the Tasmanian School of Art. When he died, she wove a tapestry of flowers to cover his grave.
