“Katrina Craig and Jolee Smith will give a joint presentation on their independent creative practices, which both deal with hybrid text and textile methodologies in relation to trauma. In her studio practice, Katrina repurposes written text as the material for her textiles work, whereas Jolee has been drawing on the techniques of textile practices as […]
Category: Art Practice
Katrina’s art practice, and the processes involved.
Frosty Autumn: Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 10th, 2019 Prarie Autumn Snowfall. When summer meets winter.
Plants and Pollinators: Winnipeg, Manitoba
The magic of soil, water and sunshine creating a new ecosystem. Bees and monarch eating nectar, aphids and spider mites eating the leaves, lady bugs and wasps eating the aphids and spiders (and staying out of our drinks).
I Hold Myself Close
I Hold Myself Close
It’s Gone to Seed
Sprouting, growing, eating, thriving, seeding, dying, drying.
Among the Marigolds
I bought African Marigolds this year by accident, but the happiest accident. I’m just trying to blend in and not make too many waves
Slow Little Twists: St Malo, Manitoba
A welcome slowed down pace. I love when I can find materials in my immediate space. Well, I can always find materials in my immediate space but they look different in the forest than they do in my apartment in the city, don’t they?
The Work That Hurts
I’ve been doing the work that hurts. Cutting my stomach open and looking at my guts, my heart. Who are you? I whisper to myself. It’s becoming clearer and fuzzier at the same time. The more I cut myself open the more I find the rotten parts, meticulously cutting them from the healthy tissue. Where […]
Bubbles: Art City, True Colour
I love playing with weird materials, trying to figure them out. Some dollar store ball pit balls. Needle and thread? nope, too rigid. Using interfacing and the end of a hot glue gun to grommet them? Works like a charm. the shape controlled by the orientation of the balls in relation to each other. This […]
A Much Deserved Service
I keep all of the messages in a folder in my email, and save the screenshots on my phone. Why? In case I need them in the future. So I have a record. Lettering them forced me to read them as a series. Foreign and familiar patterns reminding me of who I am, and who […]
Tablet Weaving and Warming Weather: Russell, MB
We got the car stuck when we stopped to take the outdoor photos. The weather had warmed up, and we sunk down a few inches. The car wheels kept spinning. A kind stranger who knows how to push a car out helped us push it out, and we were back on the road in ten […]