Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 117: Heike Blohm
What does your artwork involve? I am a textile artist who incorporates paint, paper, beads, recycled fabrics in my work – and a long list of items waiting for me to try with stitch. If I can use fabric or stitch with a technique in some form, it is fair game. I started off doing…
Read MoreArtist Interview 116: Shanell Papp
For this interview Toronto fibre artist Catherine Heard contributed some questions. Tell us about your work I have macabre interests and I make labour intensive/detailed/tedious things. I enjoy working with uncomfortable subjects over a long duration. I like to think about uncomfortable things and prepare myself for the future. The work is my personal inventory…
Read MoreArtist Interview 115: Carmella Karijo Rother
You work in felted sculpture, please tell us about it: I make sculptures in felt that I describe as organic forms made with curved lines and in natural colours, rendered in a minimalist style. I build on the warm and tactile nature of felt to create pieces that leave an imaginative space to breathe, reflect…
Read MoreArtist Interview 114: C. Pazia Mannella
Tell us about your work? The process of creating a work of art is the point of it. I believe the emotion and labour of the maker can be translated to the object. I am fascinated by the structure and potential conceptual application of fibrous materials. I use contemporary and historic techniques and equipment to…
Read MoreArtist Interview 113: Karen Goetzinger
Tell us about your work? My work has changed over the past few years. Formerly, I worked with fabric, stitch and found objects such as bits of metal. There was a strong connection to the quilt tradition in my work then. In 2010-11 a shift commenced as I experimented with ways to mount the textile…
Read MoreArtist Interview 112: Andrew MacDonald
Tell us about your work? The main focus of my studio has been building and producing sculptures with an emphasis on knitted textiles. I think of my work as installation too, but that usually takes place in the context of an exhibition or gallery. Conceptually, the work looks at and comments on reductive modernist sculpture…
Read MoreArtist Interview 111: Jeanne Williamson
Tell us about your work? My artwork is a combination of printmaking, painting, collage, and sometimes stitching, on fabric. Most of the time, I mount the mixed media fabric on the boards. When I do this, they look like paintings and not at all like fabric. I also create wall pieces and installations with single…
Read MoreArtist Interview 110: Catherine Heard
Tell us about your work? I have been interested in the history of the body as a site of anxiety throughout my career, from the early 1990s to the present. I have explored this theme through images of the female body, the monstrous body, the doppelganger, the abject body and the dead body. I believe…
Read MoreArtist Interview 109: Rosemary Hoffenberg
Tell us about your work? My work is primarily two fold: First, I create the “surface design” on white fabric. Then, I develop a composition in the form of a quilt. This is done through a variety of processes: dyeing, screen-printing, batik, mono printing and painting. Artist: Rosemary Hoffenberg. Where do you get your inspiration?…
Read MoreArtist Interview 108: Cathy Breslaw
Tell us about your work? Making art has been a continuous thread throughout my life. Punctuated by the joy and reverence I have for nature and a relentless curiosity about the world around me, my work combines sculpture, painting and drawing. Many of my ideas stem from research and reading about space and time as…
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