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Landscapes are the physical space that surrounds us. It can be the land, the water, or sometimes in outer space.
Nine Patch on Jupiter received the Juror’s Choice Award at the Art Gallery of Burlington’s Fibre Content 2018. Susan Warner Keene, a well-known Toronto artist and recipient of the 1992 Saide Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Crafts, was one of three jurors for this exhibition. She commented: The image of Jupiter’s clouds in space emerges as shifting colours and stitched lines coalesce delicately in a circular form that suggests, rather than states, the presence of the planet, floating in mysterious space. The underlying grid seems to allude to human effort to infinite space and time, while the careful and detailed making of the quilt, stitch by stitch, introduces a palpable sense of the maker’s presence and slow labour. The tension between states of matter, between the personal and the planetary, is intriguing.
The swirling free form mass of Jupiter’s clouds is revealed against the motion of shifting space as it overlays a grid of traditional 9-patch forms.
Hand stitching on natural cotton. Photo transfer.
one (more) is a series of images drawn from photographs of children in sub-Saharan Africa during a period of turmoil.
Acquired by the Michigan State University Quilt Collection
Inspired by the poem “Colossal Squid” by Souvankham Thammavongsa
“Justin Bieber: Steps to Stardom”, opened in Stratford (Justin’s home town), in February of 2018. In a hectic but inspired seven weeks, we conceived, designed and developed and installed the exhibit. Here are some process and exhibit photos.
“Who Was Tom Patterson?” Celebrates the life of the founder of Stratford’s world-renowned Shakespeare Festival. It was created to coincide with Patterson’s 100th birthday, and the opening of the new Tom Patterson Theatre in 2020. Both the theatre and the exhibit were delayed in opening to the public until a full year later because of the pandemic.
“The Road to Woodstock”, celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival, chronicled the lives of three local musicians whose band The Revols eventually took them to the “big time”. Richard Manuel (The Band), John Till (Janis Joplin), and Ken Kalmusky (Ian & Sylvia).