Canadian Quilt Associaltion 2010

More work in Articulation's booths at CQA.
Vickie Newington's work.

Vickie Newington and Wendy Klotz's work.

Ingrid Lincoln and my work.

Two of Vickie's works.

Continuing Tour - CQA

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 2 exquisitely hand embroidered purses and a 3 dimensional table piece inspired by a vigorously growing dandelion.

More from Articulation's CQA Exhibit

(Left) Wendy Klotz's 'Gates Puzzle' silk piecing and applique and Vickie Newington's stump work and stamping.

Donna Clement's 'Spruce' and 'Cedar', free motion embroidery on cotton, silk, linen and paper.

Wendy Klotz's 'Colours of the Forest', hand dyed, hand/wet felted, machine embroidered wool and organza.

Vickie Newington's work. (not sure of the title of the left hand one, 'Alley' or 'Concrete Reflection', but it is from her Winnepeg series), painted, printed, burned, felted, machine embroidered, layered. Right, 'A Hole of My Own', cotton, rubber, metal , plastic has been hand dyed, embroidered by machine and hand and layered.

I think Articulation's work was successful in showcasing a wide variety of stitching techniques and materials.

The Dialogues Continue

Gardening vs Nurturing. This dialogue has been going on for several months now. The black landscape fabric is still visible as it holds debris on top of it but the crocheted doilies are blending right into the ground. There is no sign of decay or staining on them.

I feel as though it is time for me to respond. But what could I say....

Next sunny day I need to sit beside the textiles with my sketchbook and wait for something to happen.

This is the side view of my old sweater staked out on the grass. The new growth is pushing up on the sweater because it can't work its way through the fabric. It looks like there is a pregnant body inside which is interesting because that is why I stopped wearing it. That plus the tomato soup stain on the front.

More Articulation work at CQA

I am posting images of the Articulation exhibition at CQA on 2 different blogs - mine and Articulation's.
Left - Ingrid's "Night" is an abstract response to the city she has lived in for many years. There are lots of layers here: screen printing, applique, mark making by hand.
Middle - Gloria's work started as a black piece of cloth that she discharged, cut up and reassembled. The black boarder is lost on the black curtain.
Right - My work. While I was researching the Tyndall stone quarried just outside Winnipeg, I found a reference to it also being known as 'Tapestry Stone', which just begged me to make a stone block in a tapestry technique.

Here are 2 different responses to being in the rain forest.
On the left is Donna's work and I find her response as a prairie girl most interesting. With a life-long perspective of the flora being below her knees, she has emphasised the continual falling of leaves and debris from above as a unique aspect of the rain forest ecosystem.
The work on the right is Vickie's. Her perspective is as a more distant observer looking at the rain forest as details move in and out of focus. She has a more atmospheric response.

The work on the right is Leann's, another life-long prairie girl, and like Donna, she too responded to the mass of many greens and leaves falling from overhead.
The work on the left is Donna's from the Winnipeg body of work. She explored in a number of works the ethnic diversity of the immigrants to Canada as they came to claim their grid-surveyed plot of land.

While in the rain forest on Vancouver Island, Vickie looked down and in the decay of an old stump saw new life growing. She layered 9 fabrics and, using the reverse applique technique, she revealed the stump's growth rings and rotting core. She used stump work techniques to show the new sapling (nice pun there).

Babes In the Woods

Last post I mentioned the classic image 'Babes in the Woods' then thought people may not know which image I was thinking about. So I found this 1935 version of it to explain what I was reminded of when the 2 children sat down in front of my work 'Succession'.

Succession/Regression at CQA

Over a number of earlier posts I showed you the development of some work for Articulation's Rain Forest body of work. I couldn't show you the finished work because we had a contract to have a certain amount of new work at the Canadian Quilters' Assoc conference in Calgary.
And here they are, out in the world for the first time.
On the left, 'Regression', on the right 'Succession'
Once it was hung I was thinking about how they were made to be suspended from a ceiling, to be viewed from all sides. And how they don't look as full of life against black curtains with low light.

But once these  2 children ran up to the work and sat down in front of it, I felt everything was alright.
 The boy called out to his mother, "Look Mom, its real." I just had to take a picture (with Mom's permission).
The children's reaction to my work made me feel it was successful. I had achieved what I had intended with the work.

This reminds me of that classic photograph 'Babes in the Wood'.

CQA Conference

Wendy Klotz talks about her work.

I talk about my work.

Gloria Daly's 'Stalwart' and Donna Clement's response to the arbutus tree, both works from the Rain forest body of work.

Ingrid Lincoln' 'Graffiti' and 'Cityscape' from the Winnipeg collection and my 'Meadow' from the Rocky Mountain collection