Last weekend I took my Peruvian Arpilleras (pronounced "ar-pee-air-ah") to the framer. Arpilleras are three-dimensional appliqué textiles of Latin America.

The first Arpilleras were made by the 'Mothers of the Disappeared' in Chile to tell their stories and support their families.It's lovely piece and you can see it on the left. I bought it several years ago in San Antonio.

Each figure is lovingly made as a separate piece and sewn onto the background. The theme is a wedding. You can see the bride and groom at the bottom of the picture.

But I fell in love with the ducks on the pond among the mountains at the top.

While admiring the piece, framed at last, I thought about how I passed my other pieces everyday without thinking of them. So I decided to look afresh at each piece.

It seems to me that quite unconsciously, I've collect pieces that illustrate the world of women.

Here is a piece by my friend Janina Green in Melbourne. Her work has focused on the exploration of facets of feminism, particularly domesticity and sexuality. Much of the imagery in her works centers around the female body, even if sometimes by association. Recently these issues have been explored in more nostalgic and poetic ways highlighted by her extensive use of hand colouring dyes.

Utopian artist Gloria Petyarre painted this piece which has pride of place in the lounge room. I bought it in Melbourne in 1988 at an exhibition in South Yarra.

Gloria was born around 1945 in her country of Atnangkere. She lived in the traditional ways before moving to Utopia.

These three pieces go together. The two paintings and the bowl are by Melbourne artist Ralph Berlein

The mask is from Ca'Macana mask workshop in Venice.

I bought this piece in Greenwich Village from a street artist. It shows a seated woman crossed out with red and black packing tape.

It's how I feel sometimes.