Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 87: Kim Stanford
Tell us about your work? My assemblages and installations are absurd, a little off the edge. Viewers often are undecided about their opinion, which is great. I’m interested in the tiny moments in our lives that are repeated over and over and over, in how their monumental repetition informs, yet also cuts across the grain…
Read MoreArtist Interview 86: Ingrid Lincoln
Tell us about your work? My work is eclectic. I am interested in the nature of the materials and I like to combine different materials with textiles. For example, I have worked with resins, ice, metal, corn silk. The work has also tended to move towards a more sculptural expression. Yet at the same time…
Read MoreArtist Interview 85: Anna Hergert
Tell us about your work? My work is primarily about the visual and formal – line, shape, colour, texture, negative and positive space, and how these design elements communicate with each other and the onlooker. I translate these elements into fabric and pliable non-textile materials, such as plastic food film, because I recognize their possibilities.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 84: Joy Walker
Tell us about your work? Right now, what’s really interesting to me is process – the series of actions that happen before the final work. Most recently, I’ve been making pieces with tape directly on the wall of my studio, photographing them in different stages, removing them and starting over again. When I’m not doing…
Read MoreArtist Interview 83: Maximo Laura
Tell us about your work? Tapestry-making requires a progressive, slow and irreversible system of work that allows for the miniscule, patient and intimate meeting of technical and visual solutions, leading to the opening of an infinite repertoire of possibility, subjected to the communicative intentionality of the work. In my case, I look for a language…
Read MoreArtist Interview 82: Marie Bergstedt
Tell us about your work. Currently, I am reconstructing memories from my childhood. I use a combination of recycled materials, mostly handmade, with my own work. Hand building techniques such as crochet, knitting, embroidery, button work, painting, wire sculpture, papier-mâché and appliqué, dominate the construction. Recycled materials play an important, but less obvious, role that…
Read MoreArtist Interview 81: Alice Vander Vennen
Tell us about your work? My work can best be described as textile assemblage. I use textile like paint, sewing different fabrics, cutting and repositioning nearly to the point where one would call it an abstract painting. I assemble the textiles with sculptural objects like willow branch, copper, copper wire and stones. Artist: Alice Vander…
Read MoreArtist Interview 80: Xia Gao
Tell us about your work? I do concept-based textile/fibre installation, 2D, and 3D works. My work has also been categorized in printmaking, sculpture, and installation. I use broadly defined fibre material and engage textile/fibre way of making, which is often labour intensive, repetitive, and meditative. My work shows the respect of textile/fibre tradition, but it…
Read MoreArtist Interview 79: Leisa Rich
Tell us about your work? I am attempting to create a unique world – through the individual artworks and installations I create and the incorporation of found, recycled, new, man-made materials and natural objects – into which viewers and I can experience temporary escape. Using the senses of sight and the tactility of materials that…
Read MoreArtist Interview 78: Megan Q. Bostic
Tell us about your work? My work is conceptual and is about articulating difficult emotion into visible form. Increasingly sculptural and installation-based, my work relies on material exploration and textile-based techniques. I constantly strive to make my work evocative, experiential and indicative of the emotionality contained within the concept. Artist: Megan Bostic, photo: Cliff Hollis…
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