‘Current Threads 19’ Vancouver Island Surface Design Association Exhibition, October 3 – 24, 2019
Surface Design Association Conference, Beyond the Surface, St Louis, Missouri
Marie Bergstedt, In There, fulled fabric sculpted wall hanging, 48″ x 35″ x 3.5″
Second place award
Marie’s website https://mariebergstedtartist.com/home.html
Time Notes: Day, detail
Here is another work with computer-programmed, machine-knit work in a scale making it readable only from the other side of the room.
Ann Clark, Time Notes: Day, knit fulled wool, 93″ x 66″ x 0.25″
Ann made this work as a rug. As fabulous as it looks on the wall I imagine the impact of the image would read differently when viewed from above while walking.
I was delighted there are so many knit works in this exhibition showing ‘the best of contemporary work by SDA members.’
Check out Wendy Klotz’s blog post about what she saw during the SDA conference, here and see more on what there was to see and do in St Louis.
Have you ever thought about who designed this plastic chair?

Articulation’s Current Exhibition Connected Heritage, 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 work sifting through all our research materials narrowing down a mass of images, stories and information to a focus which caught our imaginations enough to want to go deeper while being guided by the “Connected Heritage” concept the group had settled on.
Being an Artist Outside the Studio and the Skills Required
Dualities Exhibition at Cre8ery Gallery Winnipeg May 9 – 21, 2019

- coastal forest + internal self-talk – Laura
- coastal forest + external dialogue – Lesley
- continental grasslands + internal soliloquy – Ingrid
- continental grasslands + external conversations – Louise
Ingrid’s work, while identified with the prairie city of Winnipeg, expresses her inner voice as a soliloquy. The conversation she holds with herself about her adopted city includes references to its people, the climate and the surrounding environment.
Laura grew up in Winnipeg but now strongly identifies with the waters of Coastal B.C. Her art expresses a visual monologue between the two locations.
Louise Lamb’s external conversations with her chosen materials and painting processes are influenced by her childhood home on the West Coast as well as her present home on the prairies.
My textile work is firmly grounded in British Columbia’s maritime rainforests where I undertake external dialogues with the trees to develop a more intimate relationship with the place I currently call home. I reference childhood memories of growing up in New Zealand’s temperate rainforest, an earlier home I knew well.
Each one of us intuitively works within a defined quadrant providing context for our work, which is highlighted by our different choices of media and processes.
We will be arriving at the Cre8ery Gallery, website here to install our work together. We have never exhibited together before and not all of us has yet seen each other’s work. I am really looking forward to searching for the commonality and duality in our individual bodies of work once it is up on Cre8ery’s walls. It is going to be so interesting to see how the multi-layered concept of duality will be expressed in this exhibition.
We do hope you can come to see the exhibition while it is on May 9th to May 21, 2019.
The Opening Reception will be on May 9 from 7 to 10pm. We four will be there and would love to meet you and talk to you about our work.
Articulation’s Forest and Sea and the Place Between Artist Reception April 13th, 2019
Articulation’s Salish Sea Biosphere Study Sessions
WAR: A Personal Response, Body of Work, ‘Friend or Foe’
