World of Threads Festival
Flow
2018 Exhibition: Gallery
Our main 2018 festival exhibition Flow was inspired by the natural processes and rhythms of the world around us. Some works draped and hung from the ceiling, others used found and repurposed materials. These elemental works brought to mind swirling rivers, cascading waterfalls and gradual erosion. Some works evoked a universal scale with floating gas and star dust. Others were more grounded and felt like mud slides, bubbling lava, dripping sap, decaying plants and churning debris. This show was filled with the energy of one form changing into another over long periods of time.
Photography by Gareth Bate
Curators
- Canada: Ontario: Toronto: Gareth Bate
- Canada: Ontario: Oakville: Dawne Rudman
Artists
- Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver: Anna Heywood-Jones. Northwest Territories: Yellowknife: Hermina Joldersma. Nova Scotia: Bedford: Pat Loucks. Ontario: Aurora: Lori Birkbeck, Fort Frances: Carolyn Mount, Oakville: Ixchel Suarez, Sault Ste. Marie: Barbara Ramsay, Toronto: Mary-Anne Wensley. Quebec: Beaconsfield: Helena Scheffer, Vaudreuil-Dorian: Tina Struthers.
- Denmark: Copenhagen: Charlotte Ostergaard.
- Northern Ireland: Belfast: Hazel Bruce.
- Norway: Oslo: Ragnhild Monsen.
- USA: California: Malibu: Elise Vazelakis, New Jersey: West Orange: Szilvia Revesz.
Gallery
- The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.
City
- Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Dates
- Oct 13 - Nov 25, 2018
Synchronistic Curating
Something that's different about World of Threads Festival is that we let the art guide us. Festival curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don't have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose our concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions we receive.
To find our main exhibitions we look for connections and common themes between thousands of artworks. These works were made by hundreds of artists from around the world. Often artists seem to be on the same wavelength during a particular period. Over time, through many hours of sorting through artworks, the exhibition themes just emerge and become clear to us. This method has been very successful and resulted in compelling and unique exhibitions.
