World of Threads Festival
Botanical Realm
2018 Exhibition: Artwork
Gardens teaming with flowers, birds and butterflies. This melding of abstract and symbolic imagery explored colourful and textural interpretations of our beautiful botanical world.
Photography by Gareth Bate
Ellen Ramsay
Seattle, Washington, USA
Curators
- Canada: Ontario: Toronto: Gareth Bate
- Canada: Ontario: Oakville: Dawne Rudman
Artists
- Canada: Thornhill: Rosemary Pucholt, Toronto: Ganaele Langlois, Sandra Dammizio.
- Norway: Oslo: Ragnhild Monsen.
- USA: Georgia: Atlanta: Leisa Rich, Michigan, Ann Arbor: Susan Moran, Washington: Seattle: Ellen Ramsey.
Leisa Rich
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Gallery
- The Corridor Galleries at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre.
City
- Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Dates
- Oct. 13 - Nov. 25, 2018
Ragnhild Monsen
Oslo, Norway
Synchronistic Curating
Something that's different about World of Threads Festival is that we let the art guide us. Festival curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don't have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose our concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions we receive.
To find our main exhibitions we look for connections and common themes between thousands of artworks. These works were made by hundreds of artists from around the world. Often artists seem to be on the same wavelength during a particular period. Over time, through many hours of sorting through artworks, the exhibition themes just emerge and become clear to us. This method has been very successful and resulted in compelling and unique exhibitions.
Sandra Dammizio
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rosemary Pucholt
Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Ganaele Langlois
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Susan Moran
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
