‘Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters’ is open in the Frazee Gallery in the Saint John Arts Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick. This is one of 5 galleries in the building and what a beautiful building. ReBecca Paterson, who lives in New Brunswick, was responsible for getting the exhibit into this beautiful space and she has done all of […]
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...Something Fiber Articulation member, ReBecca Paterson, posted this YouTube clip on her blog as part of a class assignment in her Digital Communication class. I am posting it as well for 2 reasons: because it is a gem of wisdom and also to test another way to get images into a post – a real […]
Read More...Now that Articulation’s exhibition in the Victoria College of Art is over, I am back to work on my dissertation for my BA(Hons) degree studies. The subject of my dissertation is a study of my mother’s embroidered afternoon tea cloths as I seek to explain why women embroider flowers.I have put images of the cloths […]
Read More...Here is more of Articulation’s works presently hanging in the Victoria College of Art.My ‘Provisioning’ in the Winnipeg body of work. Gloria’s 5 encuastic handstitched views of Winnipeg architecture.On the right, ReBecca’s ‘Winter Willow’. Miriam’s exquisite bags, ‘Tyndall Bag’ and ‘The Memory Bag’, from the Winnipeg body of work. I donated a work from my […]
Read More...Donna and I drove up to Edmonton yesterday for our 2nd workshop in the McMullen Gallery. We encouraged those who came into the gallery to sit down for a while to play with some design methods: doodling within a divided basic shape & notan (dark & light) – a Japanese based exercise where one uses […]
Read More...On the last day of our residency in The Banff Centre, we all drove back to Calgary in the morning. Ingrid & ReBecca weren’t flying home until the next day so once we had unpacked the cars, we walked over to the Alberta College of Art + Design campus. Fortunately we caught the Fibre Department’s […]
Read More...+Quality time together so Articulation was able to move to the next level as a successful textile arts cooperative. +Time to share & learn from each other while we all speak the same language. +Experiencing life in the mountains as contemporary women+Developing empathy for the women who came to this place before us +Appreciating The […]
Read More...Loose Threads: Works In ProgressSome of the work we did during our month-long stay in The Banff Centre, as self-directed, Leighton Colony artists-in-residence.The Hanging -Ingrid, Donna ReBecca Linda MacKay, who arrived the day before. ReBecca’s wall -silk fabric & threads dyed using a variety of dyes & techniques. The grey & the draped pieces are […]
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