Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 17: Judith Tinkl
Cyclops, 2005, 84″x 65″, textile hanging/quilt, machine pieced, hand quilted. The design derives from only two shapes, one equilateral triangle and a square with the same dimensions, divided into two or four smaller triangles. The geometric patterns generated using these shapes are infinitely variable. Colour, both hue and light/dark contrasts can cause particular shapes or…
Read MoreArtist Interview 16: Joanne Young
Tell us about your work? I like to create textiles with body and texture. I construct multiple layers and then stitch them together by hand. Currently, I am working on weavings which combine strips of vintage Japanese cloth with strips of old clothes and a disintegrating Waterloo County quilt. I also like to make dolls.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 15: Allyn Cantor
Tell us about your work? I combine fabrics I created through various dyeing and printing methods with reclaimed or found pieces that I’ve been collecting for years. My compositions are machine sewn and assembled with canvas or linen, then stretched and primed. The finished pieces are textural assemblages that reference topography and the juxtaposing forms…
Read MoreArtist Interview 14: Pat Burns-Wendland
Tell us about your work? My work is all about the cloth. I hand dye and weave all my fabrics to produce my garments and accessories. Natural fibres such as silk, wool, cotton, tencel and now bamboo are the basis for my work. Procion MX and Weak Acid dyes are used to paint the warps…
Read MoreArtist Interview 13: Barbara Wisnoski
Tell us about your work? I create ‘2.5’-dimensional murals and wall installations from repurposed clothing using a method inspired by traditional quilt-piecing techniques. Cloth is sewn together and then repeatedly slashed apart, re-sorted and re-sewn, fracturing and dispersing individual fabrics in a process that melds surface and structure, and embodies the beauty, comfort and absurdity…
Read MoreArtist Interview 12: Robert Davidovitz
Tell us about your work? My work is a combination of two media: paint and textile. I use the traditional technique of hand-weaving to create paintings. Each piece begins with a process of extruding strands of acrylic paint, that once dry, are woven like thread. Contrasting in colour, pattern, and texture, these tactile objects explore…
Read MoreArtist Interview 11: Amy Bagshaw
Tell us about your work? Inspired by the textural and process based qualities of burlap, I manipulate this fibre to create large-scale installations, as well as smaller scale fibre-paintings. These abstracted fibre-paintings explore my response to the emotive and sensory experiences I have in the woods. Artist Amy Bagshaw Previous World of Threads Exhibitions Amy…
Read MoreArtist Interview 10: Jesse Harrod
I use fibre and craft as a platform to explore assumed, relative meaning via contextual remixing and queering. Tell us about your work? My art practice explores the relationship between the so-called traditional processes of fiber including embroidery and embellishment, and those newer technologies that attempt to replicate hand-based techniques such as laser technologies. I…
Read MoreArtist Interview 9: Emma Nishimura
Tell us about your work? My most recent work stems from my grandmother’s story, her journey, which in turn has become a part of my own. Four years after my grandmother’s death I found a box labeled ‘Baachan’s sewing patterns’ in the basement of my Mother’s home. Inside lay over two hundred miniature paper articles…
Read MoreArtist Interview 8: June J. Jacobs
Tell us about your work? My work covers various genres; wearable garments and functional items…scarves, hats, shawls, jackets and accessories, blankets, and runners. I also like to create sculptural vessels and 3D hangings which allow me to push the textural, colour and composition of works. The concept based sculptural work has forced me to push…
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