Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 7: Dagmar Kovar
Tell us about your work? In the essence, my works explore how we connect with life. Time from time, in a whirl of our busy lives, we get disconnected from our selves and we forget who we really are, what we want and why, we forget how to listen to our intuitive voices. What we…
Read MoreArtist Interview 6: Ixchel Suarez
Tell us about your work? I am a textile artist and have been exploring possibilities through diverse textile techniques (weaving, batik, printing, dying, paper, etc.) Through this search, I found in weaving, a way to express my needs by the use of diverse materials and non-conventional tapestry techniques. Artist Ixchel Suarez Previous World of Threads…
Read MoreArtist Interview 5: Cynthia Jackson
Tell us about your work? Technically, my work is a combination of hand and machine embroidery presented in a three dimensional format. I prefer to use a traditional, highly skilled form of English embroidery known as goldwork. However, I am constantly experimenting and combining a variety of old hand techniques and traditional materials with modern…
Read MoreArtist Interview 4: Lorraine Roy
Tell us about your work? My first true love in textile was embroidery. Even though embroidery techniques were not taught in the area where I grew up, I sought out every possible source of information, including membership with the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild, and was able to master quite a few different types like canvas work…
Read MoreArtist Interview 3: Christine Mockett
Tell us about your work? I am working in fibre sculpture on the theme of connection between people and places. Each sculpture is an abstracted human form combined with the physical appearance of a place. Facial features are missing because the figures’ identities and actions are only possibilities. Groups of sculptures invent, recreate and sometimes…
Read MoreArtist Interview 2: Amanda McCavour
Previous World of Threads Exhibitions Amanda McCavour has exhibited twice in the Festival and co-curated an indipendent exhibition. She exhibited in the 2009’s Common Thread International Exhibition Part 1 in Oakville, Ontario. In 2012 she co-curated the exhibition Material Connections at Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto. In 2014 she showed an installation in strung out and undone…
Read MoreArtist Interview 1: Ulrikka Mokdad
Tell us about your work? My works of art consist of finely woven tapestries in wool on flax. I use five warps per centimeter and the weft is made of Norwegian spellsau wool. The technique is classical French “gobelin”. My tapestries are usually based on drawn sketches but sometimes they are based on collages which…
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