The Hanging

Friday morning Wendy and Bob hang the last works.

People coming to the exhibition in the Victoria College of Art, open the front doors and see my 'Reading the Past I' from the Badlands body of work.

Then they look up the stairs, to see Vickie Newington's Winnipeg - 'The Colours That Lie Within', which leads to the 3rd room of the exhibition.

Continuing along the corridor visitors see 2 works from Articulation's next body of work, Prairie, just a taster of what is coming next. These 2 works are by Leann Clifford,'Wheat' and 'Dirt Devils'( a poor image of this work, it is much richer in colour than shown and has lots of layers).

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).

More McMullen Gallery Work

These are the 3 works Leann Clifford put into Articulation's 'Urban Textures' exhibition currently hanging in the McMullen Gallery, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton.

McMullen work continues

...and around to the left wall, work by Leann Clifford & Ingrid Lincoln (left),...

...Wendy Klotz's 3 buildings, which sold before the opening (congratulations, Wendy) and my 'Tapestry Stone' panel.

Leann and Gloria's work.....

...with Wendy's 'Kelly Building'.

Farm Study

We (Articulation -the fibre arts group) had an amazing time this year (each year we go somewhere special together) ...

...out on the Saskatchewan prairies during harvest time.

Over the week, our host, Leann Clifford, a farm girl herself, kept us busy from dawn 'til dusk exploring all things unique, interesting & exciting to be found in the Land of Living Skies.
Each of us now has full flash cards, bulging sketchbooks, grain samples & an armful of brochures to work with to produce a body of work.
Thanks Leann for a wonderful, unforgetable week,