While in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, recently one of the most moving experiences we experienced was visiting the place where female convicts and their nursing babies were transported to Australia from the British Isles from 1788 to 1853. The story of the Cascades Female Factory has only recently begun to be told. Above is an image […]
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Steaming the wrinkles out of Origins after it traveled in a box from Gimli, Manitoba to Duncan, British Columbia. This is minutes before the Artists’ Reception of Vancouver Island Surface Design Association’s annual exhibition, Current Threads 19. This work is about a group of Icelandic people settling in Canada bringing with them their material culture and […]
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The Surface Design Association’s 2019 biennial conference, Beyond the Surface, was in St Louis, Missouri. It was held in conjunction with the Innovations in Textiles 2019 a three-month-long event held every four years. With 43 participating venues and a large number of other museums and other historic buildings in the St Louis area, SDA members attending […]
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The ubiquitous garden-variety, plastic chair… …and its variations found throughout the world. I have come across this chair in almost every place I have travelled to. It is inexpensive, light, portable, stackable and weatherproof making it accessible to so many people. It has enabled people around the world to sit in comfort alone and in […]
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The exhibition is on all summer at the New Icelandic Heritage Museum in Gimli Manitoba. Research for this body of work began with a study session covering Winnipeg, Gimli and the Inter-Lake area of Lake Winnipeg. I posted earlier about the trip here and here. When we Articulation members were back in our respective studios, we got to […]
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Lesley, Lingrid, Laura, Louise Opening Reception Dualities exhibition, Cre8ery Gallery website, Winnipeg May 9 to 21, 2019 What began in the studio results in an exhibition with many steps and stages in between. Ingrid Lincoln standing by her work at the Opening Reception, May 9, 2019. Nearly half, if not more of an artist’s time is […]
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‘Dualities’ is the brainchild of Ingrid Lincoln. She invited three other artists to join her in expressing this concept: Laura Feeleus, Louise Lamb and me. The four of us are exploring two very different geographical locations – the vast expanse of the Canadian prairies with its continental climate of extremes and native plant cover of […]
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Cedar Wind Drawing, detail The Artist Reception for Articulation’s ‘Forest and Sea and the Place Between’ exhibition at Portals Gallery, Duncan is on Saturday 13th from 3 to 5 pm. Artists Wendy Klotz, Ingrid Lincoln, and Lesley Turner will be in attendance to talk about their work and they look forward to answering questions about […]
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Jellyfish in the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea. Articulation has had 2 week-long study sessions exploring Vancouver Island’s coastal areas. The first was in 2007 and based in Duncan while the second was ten years later in 2017 and based in both Sidney and Tofino. All areas are within the Salish Sea biosphere boundary […]
Read More...Friend or Foe linen, cotton, wood, metal; laundering, hand stitching, painting, installation Domestic teatowels made of linen or cotton have been surprisingly uniform in size over the last ninety plus years. Perhaps they are the width of a household table loom. Previously they were all woven in the home now they are mostly machine woven and […]
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