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VIDEO tour: ‘Joyful Making in Perilous Times’

by | Apr 21, 2021 | Activism, Art Discourse, Art School, Art Show, Artist Statement, Braided Rug, Braiding, Collaboration, Community, Conceptual Art, Conceptual Craft, Construction, Craftivism, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Critique, Crochet, Denim, Domestic, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Exhibition, Experimentation, Exploration, Fabric, Fiber, Fiber Artist, Film, Found Materials, Found Objects, Free Store, Handmaking, Handwork, Hearth, Homelessness, Installation, Joyful Making In Perilous Times, MFA, Pattern, Project, Quilt, Quilt Block, Research, Resurge, Scaffolds, Scraps, Slow Craft, Soft Sculpture, Tapestry, Trash Art, Tyvek, Video, Video Tour, Zero-waste Art

Click HERE for a 10-minute journey through the methods and motivations behind this MFA thesis. (Film made by Ana Valine, Rodeo Queen Pictures, August 2020)

Attraction, repulsion wrapped up in one sculpture project

by | Jun 5, 2019 | Activism, Assemblage, Children, Collaboration, Community, Creative Process, Environment, Experimentation, Fiber Arts, Foraging, Found Materials, Found Objects, Foundlings, Innovation, Knotting, Mixed Media, Playing, Project, Sculpture, Styrophobe, Trash, Trash Art

At first I thought all this must still be debris from the Japan tsunami. But that was eight years ago and the surf in my remote neck of the woods keeps throwing up snarls of monofilament netting, plastic shards, nylon rope, bits of fibreglass hulls, and styrofoam. So...

Packing it all in for the Toronto design fest

by | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Show, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Hub, Culture, Dear Human, Design, Exhibit, Fabricating, Festival, Fiber, Fibre Arts, Fuzzy Logic, Gallery, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Knitting, Lecture, Maker, Openings, Playing, Process, Project, Rachael Ashe, Spore, TO DO, Toronto Design Offsite, Vancouver

It’s getting close to a decade since I packed it all in: my needles and wool, my sewing machine and fabrics, my mid-level-management career. There was more to explore.I’ve been mixing it up with a wide range of materials (and makers) ever since but even...