World of Threads Festival
Wings
2023-24 Exhibition: Artwork
This small group exhibition features artworks about birds. In our synchronistic curating method we found that beautiful birds were a repeating motif in several submissions.
Photography by Gareth Bate
Leisa Rich
Howe Island, Ontario, Canada
Curators
- Canada: Ontario: Toronto: Gareth Bate
- Canada: Ontario: Oakville: Dawne Rudman
Artists
- Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver: Barbara Heller, Ontario: Howe Island: Leisa Rich, Markham: Kelly McLeod.
- England: Kent: Tunbridge Wells: Anne Kelly.
- USA: Arizona: Tempe: Carol Eckert.
Barbara Heller
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Gallery
- The Corridor Galleries at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.
City
- Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Dates
- Oct. 10, 2023 - Jan 14, 2024
Kelly McLeod
Markham, Ontario, Canada
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.
Anne Kelly
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Carol Eckert
Tempe, Arizona, USA
