World of Threads Festival
Blog Archive: Fibre Artist Interviews
Since the series was launched in 2011, Dawne Rudman and Gareth Bate have been interviewing local, national or international fibre artists. We have published over 137 artist interviews to date. Join us as we create a comprehensive archive of some of the most exciting fibre artists in the world. People have subscribed from 96 countries.
Artist Interview 108: Cathy Breslaw
Tell us about your work? Artist: Cathy Breslaw working on installation, size variable, industrial mesh. Photo: Melissa Au. Where do you get your inspiration? Collections, 108″ x 54″, industrial mesh, yarn, rope, paint, plastic thread. Photo: Cathy Breslaw. I believe that the materials I use choose me as they are connected to my unique visual…
Artist Interview 104: Suzanne Morlock
Tell us about your work? Artist: Suzanne Morlock with Magic Carpet Ride, 80’x12’x15′, newspaper, spinning technique and knitting technique, Lodz, Poland, 2011 I have been increasingly interested in making “textile-like pieces” out of cast off materials, creating works with new narratives. Where do you get your inspiration? Overlay (in progress), newspaper, spinning technique and knitting…
Artist Interview 87: Kim Stanford
Tell us about your work? Artist: Kim Stanford Where do you get your inspiration? WifeMother; 2012; dimensions variable (approx 144″x30″x30″each piece); steel wool, adhesive tape, wire, skewers, stickers, acrylic paint, pvc filament I looked around my studio and look! It’s full of cloth and thread and fibres! Why did you choose to go into fibre…
Artist Interview 85: Anna Hergert
Tell us about your work? Artist: Anna Hergert Previous World of Threads Exhibitions Aquatic Embrace in the “Memento mori” exhibition in the 2012 World of Threads Festival at The Gallery at Sheridan Insitute in Oakville, Ontario. Curated by Gareth Bate. Where do you get your inspiration? Aquatic Embrace in the “Memento mori” exhibition in the…
Artist Interview 65: Lancelot Coar
Tell us about your work? Artist: Lancelot Coar I am very interested in the common language that underlies all materials and natural phenomena. Where do you get your inspiration? Installation at MMX with Patrick Harrop for the Transmedialle Festival in Berlin, Photo P. Harrop I have come to realize important things through the ‘lens’ of…
Artist Interview 55: David Hanauer
Tell us about your work? Artist David Hanauer How did your work evolve into the WorldWide Carpet Project? WorldWide Carpets #1, “6th & Flower St”, 140 x 190 cm, photograph printed on carpet material Also with The “WorldWide Carpets” you create this lovely appearance of contemporary Persian Rugs, using images from our times for creating…
Artist Interview 54: Dwayne Frederick Wanner
Tell us about your work? Artist: Dwayne Wanner Where do you get your inspiration? Circuit Board, 72 x 50″ For several years I owned a company that did robotic installations in manufacturing plants. I hung my quilts throughout our offices. My young engineers always asked what the quilts were about etc. Finally I decided to…
Artist Interview 41: Lizz Aston
Tell us about your work? Artist Lizz Aston Previous World of Threads Exhibitions Optical Lace Repeat, 2011, 27.5cm h x 29 cm w x 5 cm d, Paper, free-motion embroidery, Thread, konnayaku starch, burn-out. Photograph: Lizz Aston Optical Lace Repeat – detail 2, 2011, 27.5cm h x 29 cm w x 5 cm d, Paper,…
Artist Interview 33: Elisabeth Picard
Tell us about your work? Artist Elisabeth Picard Where do you get your inspiration? Flot, 2011, Zip-Ties, glass, painted steel and neon, 28.25 x 76.5 x 38.5 inches, Michel Dubreuil photo credit Detail: Flot, 2011, Zip-Ties, glass, painted steel and neon, Michel Dubreuil photo credit My relationship with fibre is based on manipulations and in…
Artist Interview 32: Liz Pead
Tell us about your work? Artist Liz Pead Previous World of Threads Exhibitions MacLaren Installation Dec 2008, Maple LEAF Tree, recycled hockey sticks and hockey cards on wooden armature, height is 14 feet tall, 2008. Bayside Field: A View to St. Croix Island, recycled hockey gear and oil paint on plywood, 120″ x 60″ x…