I’m excited to announce that Black Cloud will be included in this year’s exhibition at Cambridge Galleries! The show runs from September 2nd to November 2nd and will showcase 24 Canadian artists working in fibre.
This week I was installing my work in an empty storefront window in Warkworth, Ontario as a part of “Sunday Drive Projects”. It was great to see “Stand-In For Home” and a portion of the “Living Room” piece in such a different context.
I was delighted to be included in an exhibition curated by fellow Harbourfront textile studio artist-in-residence Marianne Burlew at Red Head Gallery. The premise of the show was interesting- a series of collaborations between Burlew and 12 artists whose work inspires a physical response. Burlew encased pieces in plastic and then filled the forms with air.
These hands will be finished in the next few days and then shipped to the Fuller Craft Museum: to be part of the “Game Changers: Fiber Art Masters and Innovators” exhibition that runs from July 5th to November 23, 2014.
Today I packed up my studio at Tyler School of Art and headed back home to Toronto.
Here are some pictures from my studio this week!
It’s happening! My thesis exhibition Flux is now open at Temple Contemporary!
This week was spent installing at Temple Contemporary.
I’ve been taking pictures of my studio floor lately. Here are some of them as I work toward my thesis exhibition at Tyler School of Art.
I’m excited to announce that my piece Living Room will be included in the exhibition Fail-Safe: Discomforts Close to Home.
Here are some images from my studio this week. I’ve been thinking about the structures found in minerals and I’ve been translating these forms into embroideries, sketches, and small sculptures made with tape, wood and paper.
This week I was back in Toronto at a place that feels like home- Harboufront Centre. From 2007-2010 I was an artist-in-residence and for the exhibition Studious curated by Melanie Egan and Patrick Macaulay, I was invited back to exhibit with current residents and other alumni like me. It was very exciting to be back at Harboufront Centre and to see some friends that also worked in the studio like artist Patrycja Zwierzynska who was in the metals studio when I was a resident. Our works were next to each other in the show and I think they made a great pair. It was also exciting to see my piece Black Cloud on the front cover and interior spread of the Toronto Design Offsite brochure.
For the past little while I have been using the Digital Embroidery machine to create some tests and samples. The results have been exciting and what I like are some of these close-up views of the threads and stitches within each piece.
Early in January I was offered the opportunity to attend Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee for a week long forum. The forum had an open format where the 12 artists who also work with textiles and fiber materials would work in the studio and talk about our work. The studio was great and it was awesome to have some time working alongside other artists. I worked on drawings, collages and some coiled forms.
