This is a series of embroideries I created based on objects in and around my home. I created each at a 1 to 1 scale. These were the beginnings of some of my pieces based on my home interiors. I created these works by sewing into water soluble fabric and I worked from light colours to darker colours mimicking a cross hatching drawing...
Year: 2016 Dimensions: 35’ x 40’ x 10’ Medium/Technique: Thread, Machine Embroidery Location: Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA Photographer: Jeff Hoffman Produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Neon Clouds explores the contrast between thread’s subtle quality and its accumulated presence. This site-specific installation consists of several low-hanging “clouds,” or three-dimensional scribbles, made entirely of thread. Each cloud is built from hundreds of sewn elements, hung from the ceiling with thread. Together, this dense collection of sewn lines acts as a fog or smog in the gallery, referencing pollutants and obscured visibility. Toxic, saturated thread colours (neon green, yellow, orange, pink and blue) fill the space and create a synthetic environment. Neon colours are used to draw attention and highlight things, such as on caution signs, sticky notes and highlighters. A single neon thread is barely visible, but through the build-up of line, the threads create a neon atmosphere. Viewers move around the clouds and navigate the space. The clouds shift slightly with air movement, creating a surreal, artificial cloudscape. By making unnatural clouds of saturated colour, I am loosely referencing environmental issues and...
Year: 2025-2026 Dimensions: 22’ x 36’ (Dimensions Variable) Medium/ Technique: Thread/ Machine Embroidery, Nuno Felting Location: Museum London, London, ON. Double Shadow is an expansive, site-specific textile installation that is mounted to the wall with pins. Drawn from my Black and White Studies series, the work brings together more than 500 stitched elements that transform the Atrium wall into a field of airy, lace-like forms. Each piece hovers just off the wall’s surface, animated by shifting light and shadow. I create many of these works by free motion embroidering, appliquéing and hand stitching onto a special water-soluble fabric. Once the stitching is complete, the support is washed away, leaving behind a self-supporting thread drawing held together through layered and interwoven connections alone. What remains is only thread, fragile in appearance yet surprisingly resilient in form. Throughout the installation, intricate botanical motifs mingle with bold geometric shapes and dazzling patterns, gathering onto textured surfaces. Seen from a distance, the elements form striking graphic compositions; up close, they unfold into dense clusters of fine detail and careful handwork. Double Shadow invites visitors to slow down and look closely, tracing how thread, space and light interact. As individual elements accumulate and connect, the work offers a quiet reflection on material possibility and shared structures, suggesting how forms, like living organisms, find strength together. I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario. This work has been included in the following exhibitions:Exhibition: Double Shadow at Museum...
Year: 2022 Dimensions: 20’ x 20’ x 10’ (Dimensions Variable) Medium/ Technique: Thread, Machine Embroidery In this piece, I am imagining the blue world at the horizon line where the sky touches the earth. It is a journey leading to the distant line of the horizon, a world coloured blue. Through these large-scale installations, I hope to materialize this place that is so close and so far away at the same time. This work has been included in the following exhibitions: Exhibition: The Blue Afar at the Thames Art GalleryExhibition: Bleu Ciel at La Sarre Art...
In September 2026, I travelled to Calgary, Alberta, to install Ode to a Prairie at the Nickle Galleries on the University of Calgary’s campus. It was exciting to reinstall this work in the gallery space, which has towering ceilings and large concrete walls. We were able to install the work so that you can walk through what feels like a field of flowers. Many thanks to Jenelle M. Pasiechnik for curating this exhibition, which features work by Glenna Cardinal, seth cardinal dodginghorse and Dwayne Martineau. This exhibition runs from September 18, 2026 to December 12, 2026. Held. Together. is a group exhibition featuring Glenna Cardinal, seth cardinal dodginghorse, Dwayne Martineau and Amanda McCavour. Plants provide the curatorial point of departure for Held. Together. From this starting point, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage differently with questions of relationship, place and belonging. Attending to the ecological intelligence of grassland species, the exhibition considers reciprocity and care as forces that sustain human and more-than-human life. Situated where the Foothills Fescue and Foothills Parkland ecosystems meet, Guts-ists’i, Wîchîspa Oyade, Moh’kinstsis provides the ecological context for the exhibition. These grasslands and waters have known, held and sustained the Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda Nations and the Blackfoot Confederacy since time immemorial. Their enduring relationships with these lands and waters continue to shape understandings of place and community. Beneath the prairie, grasses form intricate networks of roots and relationships that stabilize soil, retain nutrients and create conditions for other forms of life to flourish. Much of this work is unseen, yet it is fundamental to the health and continuity of the ecosystem. Held. Together....
Double Shadow is now on view at Museum London, and this exhibition runs from May 23, 2026 to March 14, 2027. Double Shadow brings together over 500 stitched elements from my Black and White Studies series. Botanical motifs mix with bold geometry across the wall, shifting with the light as you move through the space. Planning Installing a piece like this comes with a little bit of uncertainty and excitement. The Atrium wall at Museum London is so much larger than my studio, so before anything went up in the gallery, I installed part of the work on my living room wall to work out how many pieces I’d need to cover that amount of square footage. My home became a temporary test site, with stitched elements mapped across the space. But no matter how carefully you plan, the first time you actually see the finished installation is when you’re installing it. There’s no way to fully preview 500+ pieces coming together on a wall of that size. The Install The process started with a diagram — mapping out the general arrangement of circles, then scaling that to the dimensions of the Atrium wall so every circle had precise measurements. That diagram was projected directly onto the wall surface, and each circle was marked out with blue tape and labelled with a letter. From there, I divided the 500+ pieces proportionally across each circle. This step mattered a lot — I wanted the botanical motifs, the abstract patterns, the different techniques, and the balance of black and white distributed thoughtfully across the whole wall. Once the pieces were sorted...
This week, photographer Christine Lim visited my new Toronto studio. She captured a few images of what I’ve been working on. I pulled out some current projects for the shoot: black and white embroidery and nuno felted pieces in progress for an upcoming show at Museum London, plus the watercolours that served as source material for the patterns. I also brought out wire pieces from an upcoming commission, along with a few finished, powder-coated examples. Here’s a peek into the studio space, some works in progress, and a few samples. Take a look at more of Christine’s photography...
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, Stipend/Tuition Remission, Temple University Handweavers & Spinners Guild of America, Convergence Conference Grant Surface Design Association,...
Group Exhibition: Held. Together at Nickle GalleriesIn September 2026, I travelled to Calgary, Alberta, to install Ode to a Prairie at...Read MoreExhibition: Double Shadow at Museum LondonDouble Shadow is now on view at Museum London, and this exhibition runs from May...Read MoreStudio VisitThis week, photographer Christine Lim visited my new Toronto studio. She captured a few images...Read MoreWindow Display: Hermès New York CityOne Sentence Summary: My embroidered installation at Hermès Madison Avenue features Pegasus in Bloom, where the mythical...Read MorePublic Art: Ode to a Prairie at The University of Wisconsin MadisonThis summer, I traveled to Madison, Wisconsin, to install two large-scale works in the new...Read MoreArt Installation: Gladstone House in TorontoIn June 2025, I installed Sunset Canopy, a permanent artwork in the Tower Suite at...Read MoreExhibition: Of Wonders Wild and New at The Burlington Botanical GardensShort Statement: My installation Ode to a Prairie at Royal Botanical Gardens creates an immersive...Read MoreExhibition: Rewilding at The Canadian Museum of NatureI’m honored to share that my work is currently featured in Rewilding – the David...Read MoreExhibition: Bloom at The Lake of the Woods MuseumOne Sentence Summary: My wire installation at Lake of the Woods Museum creates a floating...Read MoreExhibition: AgriCULTURE at the Longmont MuseumIn June 2024, I participated in agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land, an innovative exhibition...Read MoreExhibition: The Blue Afar at the Thames Art GalleryShort Summary: My latest exhibition at Thames Art Gallery explores the longing of distance through...Read MorePublic Art: Garden of Clouds in TaipeiIn 2024, I completed Garden of Clouds, a large-scale embroidered installation for Tok Eats café...Read MoreExhibition: In Her Garden at the Peel Art GalleryOne Sentence Summary: My...
