'Sitting Pretty Show' at Coast Collective Gallery

Here is news from Kathy Demchuck (1 of the artists) about an exhibition in the Coast Collective Gallery,  October 15 to 26, 2014. Meet the Artists Opening Reception: Saturday, October 18, 2-4pm

Hi,

We are pleased to let you know our latest artistic endeavours will be on display as part of the " Sitting Pretty Show "  at Coast Collective Gallery, link here

Please come and visit us and say Hi.  One of us will be there most of the time the show is on.  If you didn't come last year you are in for a big surprise.

We have had a lot of fun putting this show together. It is full of wit and whimsy.

Kathy

Articulation's Victoria Study Session Continues

On the ferry, crossing to Saltspring Island for the day: to visit Articulation member, Shannon Wardroper's home and studio, to check out potential gallery space and time for a little retail therapy. 

Stitches Fibre Art Supplies, http://www.stitchesfibreartsupplies.ca/ very kindly opened up their store just for us, even though it was Sunday.

Continuing our study of railway hotels across Canada, we took a tour of the Empress Hotel.

This is the view from a 6th floor corner suite looking out over the inner harbour.

A table in the present day Empress tea room, set for their famous afternoon tea.

On the tour we learnt the tables were made from the original hotel floor boards after it was replaced.

Articulation taking the harbour ferry from the Inner Harbour, below the Empress hotel, up to the Upper Harbour.

We got off at Point Ellice House where we walked the grounds and toured inside the house with its intact, original contents. All chattels both inside the house and in their archives are thoroughly cataloged making it a perfect place to research the Victorian era in Victoria.

Leann Clifford

We did stop for afternoon tea while sitting out on the lawn but passed on a game of croquet.

We toured Fisherman's Wharf with its floating restaurants and floating houses that make up the village. 

We continued our driving tour around the Victoria peninsular, stopping and walking the historic sights, including Ogden Point breakwater without a breath of wind and barely a ripple of water.

After a week exploring and researching in Victoria we have returned to our respective studios across Canada to make a body of work for exhibition some time in the future.

Pattern Design Course Progress

One of the morning exercises was to analyse different patterns and to find examples of different types of patterns to put in our Pattern Dictionaries.

Elisha is working out how this pattern was made.

Elisha working with a new stamp she carved.

See below the resulting pattern.

Charlotte's new carved stamp produces a number of appealing repeating patterns.

Another pattern Charlotte produced with her new stamp.

Connie made several stamps using hot glue. They make a distinctive mark.

Teaching at Victoria College of Art

I spent 2 days getting the Victoria College of Art's Lower Studio ready for teaching in this spring term.

This is the before shot.

Day 2 my well-trained assistant set up the print tables.

All ready for "Pattern Design for Artists"

I enjoy teaching this course because there are always great discoveries to be made.

Carole Sabiston Opens at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

We attended the opening of Carole Sabiston's exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, a retrospective solo called "Carole Sabiston: Everything Below All of the Above"

Curator Pat Bovey, a former director of the gallery and now from Winnipeg, spoke to a packed audience about her long friendship with Carole and her observations over the years as Carole's oeuvre grew.

Left: Pat Bovey, Carole Sabiston, Jon Tupper, Director

Pat's text panel.

 Hope you can read this.

http://aggv.ca/exhibitions/carole-sabiston

Mark Makers at Victoria College of Art

Victoria College of Art - where the Mark Makers are presently having their first public exhibition. 

In the Drafting Studio, first on the right.
I will be taking my turn sitting the exhibition tomorrow.
Lots of people have been visiting so it will be busy.

This is the first time 'Hemoglobin: Chlorophyll II' has been out of my studio.
The artist statement:

How many breaths has this well-worn, opened-out pillow case absorbed?

Capillaries, veins and arteries make up the lungs of our planet. The sister molecules, hemoglobin and chlorophyll, the red and green, are responsible for the rhythm of our lives.

Familiar, used domestic linens allow me to communicate without the need for translation, to reach across time, and to honour the often anonymous original makers.

Domestic linens were dyed red or green, strip pieced, then the motifs free-motion machine stitched.

Mark Makers at Victoria College of Art

Mark Makers is a group of fibre artists who took classes at Victoria College of Art and wanted to continue getting together after the courses finished.
Yesterday they installed their first public exhibition of work.
This is what the Victoria College of Art studio looked like before they began - a blank canvas....

....filled.
This is just a teaser of how the 82 works have transformed the space.
We do hope you are able to make it to the exhibition.
It is runs August 11th to 17th, everyday, from 10 to 4pm.
There will be a closing reception on August 17th from 1 pm to 3pm, with most of the artists in attendance.
We do hope you can come and celebrate their achievements with them.

Victoria College of Art Textile Graduates

Last night, at Victoria college of Art, 4 people were awarded Fine Arts Textiles Certificates: Esther Paterson (above), Dana Davies, Sonia Park, Michelle Mleinek.
Congratulations all of you on your achievements.

Kati and Sarah help Esther celebrate on graduation night.

Hand to Hand Opening

This evening we went to the opening of the Victoria College of Art faculty show at the Cedar Hill Gallery

10 faculty members are showing work

Here am I with my 2 works

Art history instructor, Yvonne Owens (on left with mic), with a pick up band treated us to a tribute to Kate Bush.
The Victoria School of Ballet's award winning students also performed for us.
It was a fun night out.

Hand to Hand: Works by Teaching Artists

Tonight I'm getting my work ready for this exhibition
I'm entering 2 knitted hangings
The opening on Thursday will be most entertaining!

Imagists Exhibition in Victoria

http://www.artopenings.ca/Art_Openings.ca/Imagists_Opening.html
Click on this link to get details about the Imagists current exhibition
It is a most interesting collection of work
Thanks Kate for putting this review up on your site

Mark Making with Thread

Su Mei
The 2nd Mark Making With Thread course at the Victoria College of Art is underway.
The students produced most expressive stitched colour studies as they refined their personnel colour palettes.

James

Sarah

Dana

Setting up Textile Studio

Yesterday morning i shopped for supplies for the new textile arts studio at Victoria College of Art.
In the afternoon I finished off painting the edge of the floor.
Ron and Barb McCaffrey turned up and took charge of laying down the floor tiles.
This is Barb looking mischievous. She has a plan.

When Barb arrived and saw the damaged grey side of the tiles laid out she was disappointed the room didn't look as new as it should. So she and Ron pulled them all up again and stacked them according to colour. Barb eliminated the pink tiles and with Ron worked out a pattern to use the remaining 3 colours.

When i returned from a meeting, i found this. It looks great. Just the effect i wanted - stimulating and not like any one's living room. Thank you Barb and Ron.

While we have been cleaning and painting, George, the Victoria College of Art illustration/animation instructor, has been upstairs above us painting a mural on his computer studio wall.
Here it is complete, another inspirational studio in the college.