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...
