Education 2014 Masters of Fine Arts, Fibers & Material Studies, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Grants and Awards 2024 Ontario Arts Council, Craft Projects Individuals Grant 2023 David Suzuki Foundation, The Rewilding Arts Prize 2022 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Harbourfront Centre Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Project Grant Ontario Arts Council, Craft Projects Individuals Grant 2021 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation Grant 2020 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Textile Museum of Canada 2019 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Projects Grant Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Across Canada Grant 2nd Place, Young Masters Art Prize, London UK Emerging Woman Artist Award, Young Masters Art Prize, London UK Shanks Memorial Award in Textiles, Craft Ontario 2018 Toronto Arts Council, Artists in the Libraries Grant Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Craft Ontario 2017 Ontario Arts Council, Craft Projects Individuals Grant 2016 Toronto Arts Council, Animating Historic Sites Grant, Montgomery’s Inn Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Textile Museum of Canada Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Craft Ontario Mary Robertson Textile Award, Craft Ontario People’s Choice Award, Penn College Gallery, 10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition 2015 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Textile Museum of Canada Canada Council for the Arts, Fine Craft Grant Ontario Arts Council, Craft Projects Individuals Grant Toronto Arts Council, Level One Visual Arts Grant 2014 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, Harbourfront Centre Teaching Assistantship, Temple University Handweavers & Spinners Guild of America, Convergence Conference Grant Surface Design Association, Outstanding Student...
Window Display: Hermès New York CityAmanda McCavourAugust 7, 2025Latest Updates(0)One Sentence Summary: My embroidered installation at Hermès Madison Avenue features Pegasus in Bloom, where the mythical...Read MoreExhibition: Of Wonders Wild and New at The Burlington Botanical GardensAmanda McCavourJanuary 31, 2025Latest Updates(0)Short Statement: My installation Ode to a Prairie at Royal Botanical Gardens creates an immersive...Read MoreExhibition: Bloom at The Lake of the Woods MuseumAmanda McCavourSeptember 30, 2024Latest Updates(0)One Sentence Summary: My wire installation at Lake of the Woods Museum creates a floating...Read MoreExhibition: The Blue Afar at the Thames Art GalleryAmanda McCavourJanuary 7, 2024Latest Updates(0)Short Summary: My latest exhibition at Thames Art Gallery explores the longing of distance through...Read MoreExhibition: In Her Garden at the Peel Art GalleryAmanda McCavourSeptember 7, 2023Featured(0)One Sentence Summary: My installation Floating Garden is paired with Jannick Deslauriers’ Phasmes to explore...Read MorePublic Art: Floral Canopy at Albee Square NYCAmanda McCavourAugust 31, 2023Featured,Latest Updates(0)Short Summary: My new installation Floral Canopy transforms native New York plants into hundreds of suspended wire...Read MoreOnline Course: Embroidery with a sewing machine with DomestikaAmanda McCavourAugust 7, 2023Latest Updates(0)Short Statement: My new Domestika course is now available online! Date: August 2023 In November...Read MoreStudio: Prairie PlantsAmanda McCavourJanuary 19, 2022Latest Updates(0)A look into my works in progress for an upcoming show at the Chazen Museum...Read MoreStudio: Wire SculpturesAmanda McCavourAugust 9, 2021Latest Updates(0)This summer, I've been working on a new installation using wire to create lines in...Read MoreExhibition: Spirals, Loops and Circles at Harbourfront CentreAmanda McCavourJune 8, 2021Featured,Latest Updates(0)I created a floor mural that will be up for the summer of 2021 in...Read MoreWorkshops 2021Amanda McCavourFebruary 20, 2021Workshops(0) I will be teaching some online workshops about water soluble...
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. She is interested in thread’s assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. McCavour uses a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations. By sewing into fabric that dissolves in water, she can build up stitched lines on a temporary surface. The crossing threads create strength so that when the fabric is dissolved, the thread drawing can hold together without a base. With only the thread remaining, these images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works raveled strength. Through an exploration of line and its 2-d and 3-d implications, stitch is used in her artwork to explore various concepts such as connections to home, the fibers of the body and more formal considerations of thread’s accumulative presence. Amanda’s work explores embroidery’s duality- it’s subtle quality versus it’s accumulativepresence and its structural possibilities versus its fragility. Through experimentation and creation within her studio, she continues to investigate line in the context of embroidery, drawing and installation. McCavour holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and installation and has recently completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. McCavour shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions in Gatineau (QB), Williamsport (PA) and Vancouver (BC). She has received grants and awards from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Crafts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America,...
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. She is interested in thread’s assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. McCavour uses a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations. By sewing into fabric that dissolves in water, she can build up stitched lines on a temporary surface. The crossing threads create strength so that when the fabric is dissolved, the thread drawing can hold together without a base. With only the thread remaining, these images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works raveled strength. Through an exploration of line and its 2-d and 3-d implications, stitch is used in her artwork to explore various concepts such as connections to home, the fibers of the body and more formal considerations of thread’s accumulative presence. Amanda’s work explores embroidery’s duality- it’s subtle quality versus it’s accumulativepresence and its structural possibilities versus its fragility. Through experimentation and creation within her studio, she continues to investigate line in the context of embroidery, drawing and installation. McCavour holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and installation and has recently completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. McCavour shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions in Gatineau (QB), Williamsport (PA) and Vancouver (BC). She has received grants and awards from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Crafts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America,...
