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The most powerful art might be made of garbage

The most powerful art might be made of garbage

Carlyn Yandle photo The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol and, most recently, Francis Bacon and the...
Getting ready to scream ‘Woo!’ with the rest of you

Getting ready to scream ‘Woo!’ with the rest of you

You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
More strange bedfellows: quilts and graffiti

More strange bedfellows: quilts and graffiti

This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years:  blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
Discarded doilies demand attention

Discarded doilies demand attention

Wrap (I), polyethylene fibre, 96″ diameter In my fourth-year sculpture class venerable artist and (now newly-retired) Emily Carr instructor Liz Magor took one look at my first installation of a kazillion doilies stretched across the cavernous classroom and said,...