Here is my Postcards From Fundy series where I looked at the history of human settlement in the Bay of Fundy through the textiles the people made, wore and used. When people entered the gallery Wendy Klotz’s “Lost at Sea” work greeted them. It was so moving to talk to a man who had worked as a […]
Read More...The 1st showing in Canada of the Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters exhibition opens in a month, at the Cre8ery Gallery in Winnipeg. The name of the exhibition explains how the it came about and also it’s content. Articulated Materials – Articulation, a Canadian group of fibre artists teamed up with a similar group called Material Girls, […]
Read More...I have started working on a new body of work It began with an Articulation study week, where we explored the Bay of Fundy.Here we are stopped for a roadside lunch I have decided to explore all things red because it struck me as the dominant colour whereever we went around the coastline.Fields of red-leafed low-bush blueberries. […]
Read More...To continue the tour of Articulation’s exhibition at CQA, here are 2 works by Vickie Newington. On the left is the companion work to ‘Ally’ called ‘Concrete Reflection’ and on the right ‘Big Sky Country II’. Next to that is Vickie’s ‘Colours of History’. On the table was my ‘Nana’s Garden’ series….. …and Miriam Birkenthal’s […]
Read More...I am working with these images to make another piece in my ‘Urban Textures’ series that will be exhibited with Articulation in the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery in September. Along with other works in this series it is a tribute to those early domestic and professional textile workers in Winnipeg who played a major and […]
Read More...This week Donna Clement & I travelled to Edmonton to take down Articulation’s exhibit of Winnipeg inspired work that has hung in the University of Alberta Hospital McMullen Gallery for the past couple of months. This a bag made by Miriam Levi Birkenthal that was a late entry to the exhibition because the courier person […]
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