Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 37: Lindy Pole
Tell us about your work? The current fabricated sculpture series than I’m working on, exhibits an intricate grouping and layering of fabrics and adornments as seen in elaborate period costumes and headdresses. However, these techniques are now presented in a pictorial, often symbolic or allegorical fashion, as stage-like settings. Translation of colour, shape, texture and…
Read MoreArtist Interview 36: Melanie Chikofsky
Tell us about your work? The three main components that drive my art practice are: primarily the expression of the idea, the second is the physical act of creation, and the third is the material explorations. These three elements are inseparable in my process as they coalesce, and are essential to most everything I do.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 35: Laurie Lemelin
Tell us about your work? Hand embroidery has long been thought of as charming samplers and tablecloths, created for domestic pleasure but the degree of embellishment that has been produced all around the world for centuries is from where I take my inspiration. My work starts with a life-long fascination with fashion. My earliest memory…
Read MoreArtist Interview 34: Emily Jan
Tell us about your work? On the surface, my work concerns the natural world, especially the animal kingdom. I find that creatures are a good back-door way into talking about all kinds of human issues which are either ethereal and difficult to pin down, or alternately sticky and contentious. Though much of my work has…
Read MoreArtist Interview 33: Elisabeth Picard
Tell us about your work? As movement transforms matter in the universe, my work is oriented to the exploration of natural phenomena and their impact on the physical environment. The relationship between growth and transformation and the complexity of the structures they engender, guide my practice. As I work on many pieces at the same…
Read MoreArtist Interview 32: Liz Pead
Tell us about your work? I was originally drawn to textiles and surface design as being the closest thing to painting I could find in the school I (thankfully!) found myself in – the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. I loved the pictorial nature of tapestry, batik and silk painting. I pushed the…
Read MoreArtist Interview 31: Milena Radeva
Tell us about your work? I’m working in a textile medium creating mainly wall hangings and three-dimensional textile sculptures. I use any possible fibre or other natural materials that strikes my fancy at the particular moment of creation. I heard someone say once “a painter paints, but an artist produces art with anything that passes…
Read MoreArtist Interview 30: Rochelle Rubinstein
Tell us about your work? I am a Toronto-based printmaker, painter, book and fabric artist. Lately, I have been immersed in block printing, painting, and carving large wood panels, then over-printing and over-carving to create layers and textures. Concurrently, I am block printing, painting, and embroidering silk works which morph from wall hangings to standing…
Read MoreArtist Interview 29: Martha Cole
Tell us about your work? I consider myself to be a landscape-based artist whose work is deeply informed by the prairie region of Canada. The work is often panoramic, in both scope and scale, although I also do “close-ups” of various prairie flora. All of my work has a basis in a personal deep ecological…
Read MoreArtist Interview 28: Susan Strachan Johnson
Tell us about your work? My work is informed by nature and the rural landscape where I live and is only partly abstracted. I want to show how I see the world and each piece invariably has an environmental theme, since I believe artists cannot say too much about how we need to care for our…
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