There was a collection of other things in the box I won at the auction. A large printed table cloth and 2 plates…. One is a rather lovely painted, wooden plate from Russia (I’m guessing) and a Finnish Arabia plate, produced between 1971 and 1975. …and this odd assortment. These crocheted kitchen items were made […]
Read More...The Joshua Creek Gallery housed the World of Threads Festival exhibition De rerum natura ( On The Nature of Things). The festival curator, Gareth Bate, looked at all of the work submitted then decided on groupings and themes. He “observed that environmental work is the most dominant theme in contemporary fibre art.”These are some of […]
Read More...I have been doing a lot of dyeing to get materials to work with for my BA studies. I have not yet been entirely successful with getting the right red I am looking for. So I am persevering and learning lots in the meantime. Not a good image but this one worked out well. It […]
Read More...Now that i have sent this semester’s module of work to the UK for assessment it is time to clean up my studio. All of the left over yarn that i had hauled out, i sorted by hue. I have all of my yarns and threads sorted into 24 different hues, each with their own […]
Read More...This is another dialogue i have going on with a Douglas-fir and an arbutus. I staked out under these 2 trees a grid of round knit and crochet doilies and squares of agricultural cloth. I was anticipating the plants in the ground would grow up through the knitting/crochet…. …and be suppressed by the agricultural cloth.This […]
Read More...Kris Hold, a 4th year sculpture student, crocheted “authentic smelling twine & translucent fishing line to build structural pieces that cover human bodies.” In this image I love the way the backs of the heads of those in the audience mimic the textures in the structural pieces. She is exploring “human form & sculpture”, a […]
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