World of Threads Festival
2016 Festival, Exhibition Menu
Visit the 2016 World of Threads Festival! Exhibitions included our major gallery show Cosmic Geometry. We mounted 19 Solo Shows and 7 Installations including the major group show Late in the Season. Smaller group shows included Quiet Zone II, Cat Walk and Kimono Road and www. We also had two off-site exhibitions me and you, and a survey show of Judith Scott.
Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman
Cosmic Geometry
Cosmic Geometry was our major 2016 Festival exhibition. Patterns, shapes, and forms that we find everywhere and always, were the focus of this vibrant and absorbing show. It demanded not only our close attention but also our capacity to appreciate the universal aspect of things.
Late in the Season
This group show featured two major installations and several smaller works. As autumn fades and the chill of approaching winter can be felt in the air, we take refuge in the lingering colour of fall leaves, deep brown earth, and the rare fragments of summer green. This exhibit paid tribute to the richness of a dying season.
Quiet Zone II
A sequel to our much appreciated 2012 exhibit Quiet Zone, this show gave visitors the opportunity to pause, to breath, and to relax amidst muted colours, receptive forms and an imperturbable stillness. Artwork in this show came from 15 countries!
Solo Shows: Part 1
With this exhibit, we entered a world where variety, innovation and a sustained vision had the upper hand. Part 1 featured the work of 7 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows: Part 2
With this exhibit, we entered a world where variety, innovation and a sustained vision had the upper hand. Part 2 featured the work of 7 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Solo Shows: Part 3
With this exhibit, we entered a world where variety, innovation and a sustained vision had the upper hand. Part 3 featured the work of 5 artists from very different aesthetic and cultural traditions.
Installations
Festival 2016 featured seven installations by artists from Canada, Israel, New Zealand and USA.
Cat Walk and Kimono Road
Clothing has always provided the most clearly recognized use for fibre/textiles. In this two part exhibit, which combined western design with eastern, we saw how seemingly limitless were the opportunities for variation.
Judith Scott
American artist Judith Scott was best known for her engrossing, enigmatic fibre sculptures. Scott began making art at age 44. She was deaf and born with Down syndrome. She would go on to produce a complex and masterful body of work in the eighteen years that followed to her death. Surveyed here in Canada for the first time.
Me and You
me and you used textiles and fibre arts as a means to address contemporary issues. Works drew upon personal narratives as they pertained to self, and reflected on issues concerning experience, relationships and social-political circumstance.
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