Category: Contemporary Craft
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Paper Letters
Paper Letters explores the stories we tell in order to make sense of our experiences. These stories become the building blocks of our identity and shape our perceptions of events happening all around us, what psychologists refer to as “narrative identity.” If we wish to meaningfully transform ourselves and the way we see the world,…
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Sick Party
Sick Party explores invisible illness and the ongoing pressure to perform ‘wellness’ in everyday life, while feeling anything but well. The figures in Sick Party are arranged clumsily to resemble a human form, limbs and necks stretched, knotted, and tangled. The smile and eyes are hollow, a facade to hide within. The performance of wellness…
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Things I’ve never told anyone (before)
Things I’ve never told anyone (before)Paper, wooden beads, cotton string2022
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I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My Skin
I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My SkinWire, beeswax, wool, organics2022 I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My Skin explores the role of rest, care, and play in sustaining and supporting a long term creative practice. This work is part of Connie Chappel’s instagram gallery project Study Untitled Study, where artists are given Collin…
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I Know This Forest Like the Back of My Hand
I Know This Forest Like the Back of My HandVideo of hand spun wool and cotton weaving with layered lettering2022 I Know This Forest Like the Back of My Hand: A Love letter to the land of my childhood. The weaving was made in Winnipeg, Manitoba. You can hear the city sounds as I spin…
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I Can Feel This Time Etched Into My Bones
I Can Feel This Time Etched Into My BonesWire, beeswax, cotton, paper2022
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Encroaching Columella
Encroaching ColumellaVellum, cotton thread, water based pens2021 Sometimes it all just takes a really really really long time. And it’s worth it, but it might not seem like it’s worth it while you’re doing it. At times, but not all the time. That’s okay. It doesn’t need to be easy all of the time, but…
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Facia Knots
Facia KnotsCotton, naturally dyed silk organza, rose pigment screenprint2021. Rose petal pigment made by Francesca Carella Arfinengo
Katrina Craig 