Quiet Zone - World of Threads Festival

More great work in the Quiet Zone exhibition.

Dominique Arlot, Black and White 1

Gesso and acrylic paint on old sheets.

With hand and machine stitching.

Catherine Dormor talks about her work resulting from her PHD studies.

Catherine talks about her work to Articulation.

Ingrid Lincoln, Joe Lewis, Catherine Dormor

Dawne Rudman, Festival Chair and Curator, Gareth Bate, Festival Curator.
These 2 did an amazing job pulling off such a huge event with overwhelming success.

Quiet Zone - World of Threads Festival

Maggie Tchir, Kathleen Hill, Earth Nest

Merino & Romney wools, barley seed, maple branches.

Kerstin Bennier, sitz.kugel - white, hand made merino wool felt, cotton fabric.

Catherine Dormor, Shimmer, digitally printed silk organza, silk satin.

This was my favourite exhibition of the festival. Each work was so quietly powerful.
The Winter 2013 edition of Fiber Art Now also has an article on the World of Threads exhibition with an image of the Quiet Zone showing that power.

Myth Making - World of Threads Festival

Maximo Laura Inner Cosmology,
A Peruvian tapestry weaver.

 

Our Intimacy

 

The vibrancy of the colour was arresting.
The latest issue of 'Fiber Art Now', Winter 3013, has an article on Maximo Laura's background, how he works and how influential he is.  Laura's website www.Maximolaura.com 

Variegated Threads

Variegated Threads, a World of Threads Festival exhibition in the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville, featured an eclectic collection of fibre works.

Barbara Rehus, Thanks, Ma.
A mechanically animated installation that made me grin.

This intensely stitched and buttoned work...

...made Mikey of Mallory by Marie Bergstedt.

Fibre Collage at Abbozzo Gallery

This was a small, interesting exhibit where 6 artists collaged a wide range of materials in individually different ways.

Allyn Cantor, Dusk Treeline, cotton canvas, linen, reclaimed textile.

Natalie Bertin, Torment of the Heart, rabbit fur, leather, brass bullet casing, gold & silver pigment, bead texture medium, acrylic.

Alice Vander Vennen, Pilgram, new & found textiles, copper, willow, found objects.

Sheridan Institute Textiles Department

After attending the Memento mori exhibition opening I looked in on the textiles department of the Sheridan Institute.
Burners for natural dyeing and protein fibres.

Washing machine and dryer

Various steamers 

Materials prep counter

Vented box for mixing dye stuff

Long padded print tables and racks of silk screens 

Light table

Long firm print tables.

What a place to be a student!

World of Threads Festival Exhibitions

Ingrid Lincoln also had work in the De rerum natura exhibition.

Either/Or, machine stitched cotton and batik fabric.

Danger Water Rising, machine stitch and applique on cotton and silk.

While the De rerum natura exhibition celebrated life, the Memento mori  exhibition 'dealt with the themes of death, mortality and grief and the quest for immortality.' The curator Gareth Bate's selection focused on works using established fibre techniques but non-fibre materials.

 Megan Bostic The First Year of Grief: everyday never feels like the yesterday I need it to.

 
Silk organza, powdered drink mix, tea, and waxed linen thread were hand stitched then covered in wax.

 
Susan Lukachko, Splinter

 
From what I could see, Susan painted a canvas with oil paints, interfaced the canvas, cut it up then sewed it back together again like patchwork.

Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre

The Joshua Creek Gallery housed the World of Threads Festival exhibition De rerum natura ( On The Nature of Things). The festival curator, Gareth Bate, looked at all of the work submitted then decided on groupings and themes. He "observed that environmental work is the most dominant theme in contemporary fibre art."
These are some of the works I particularly liked in this exhibition.

Leanne Shea Rhem, Armour, 2011

Hand-made kozo paper and lambskin leather were stitched together to make a dressed, life-size human form.

Kozo was a popular medium in the festival but no 2 artists used it in the same way.

Emily Jan, Durer's Rhinoceros, 2011
Emily's title refers to the woodcut Albrecht Durer made in 1515, of a rhinoceros, an animal he had never seen. He worked from a description written by an explorer who had returned to Europe. Durer modeled it after what he was familiar with - metal and leather amour.

Wiki - "probably no animal picture has exerted such a profound influence on the arts".

Emily, likewise has made a rhinoceros from the familiar materials we cover ourselves with - our clothing. 

Recycled garments & textiles and resin.
Knitting, crochet, eyelet embroidery, button fastenings, lace edgings.

This suspended rhino made everyone smile.