Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 127: Jim Arendt
Tell us about your work: My artwork grows out of the need for me to understand our shifting relationship with labour and work. I grew up on a farm outside of Flint, Michigan, birthplace of General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union. Our region underwent a radical shift in economics as the industrial and…
Read MoreArtist Interview 126: Merce Mitchell
You taught yourself to felt and have been doing it now for 20 years. Tell us how you got started: I started in college with photography. But I decided the chemicals I was using to develop my prints were not what I wanted to work with, so I switched to making paper, and art out…
Read MoreArtist Interview 125: Louise Keen
Tell us about your work: In my work I have developed a piecing together and synthesis of form that references the historical art movement known as Synthetic Cubism. It was this movement that sparked the modernist’s optimistic use of ‘real world objects’ in painting and collage. In the canvas works I use a lot of…
Read MoreArtist Interview 124: Rosemary Claus-Gray
Rosemary Claus-Gray Poplar Bluff, Missouri, USA Artist Interview Rosemary Claus-Gray is a late blooming artist. The sleeping artist awoke as she neared retirement from a career as a clinical social worker. She creates abstract art in a painterly style, layering translucent fabrics creating value transitions. She paints sheer silk with an acrylic wash, creating lines…
Read MoreArtist Interview 123: Mary Giehl
Tell us about your work: My work is about introducing the audience to ideas that are important to me. For many years my work focused on issues about children especially how fragile they are. I would use different materials to express my concerns about this issue. I have never been able to settle in on…
Read MoreArtist Interview 122: Emily Hermant
What do you think of us placing your work within the context of fibre art and how do fibre techniques and materials relate to your practice? My background and training is in fibres and material practices, so fibres have influenced my ideas, my material choices, and the ways in which I work with those materials.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 121: Robin Wiltse
Why did you go into fibre art and how you decided on this medium? In my family there are many artists, painters, designers, carvers and weavers. My Granny, for one, was a marvelous knitter and needlepoint artist, who was always challenging herself with new projects. I have many tactile and visual memories of time spent…
Read MoreArtist Interview 120: Barbara Klunder
In your art practice you have been involved in many fibre mediums over the years. Tell us where you started, and how you moved into the other media. I started knitting and sewing when I was a kid … 10 or so. I started doing more complex knitting in the Mary Maxim style, when I…
Read MoreArtist Interview 119: Megan Skyvington
Tell us about your work? Thematically my work runs in two parallel lines. The first explores the external (artificial) world and the impact it has on the self. This I examine by exploring the ridiculous and fascinating world of fashion and beauty (and it’s implications for the body and our feelings about the body). I…
Read MoreArtist Interview 118: Rachel Brumer
Tell us about your work? My present work is fibre based. The concepts and ideas I begin with are translated into 2 and 3 dimensions, from individual and discrete objects to room sized installations and pieces with community participation. I deeply enjoy the labour of the work, whether it be dyeing fabric, discharging that piece of fabric,…
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