World of Threads: mixed media and weaving artists

Elizabeth Babyn from Caledon, Ontario, Canada

Jeanette  upcycled textiles assemblage 

This piece is from the series: Her Industry, Reclaimed.  a body pf work that began as an homage to my mother and the generations of other women who have toiled with textiles in our domestic, industrial and creative spaces.  Utilizing various approaches with up-cycled textiles that include deconstructed men's suits, I recast and subvert the meaning of these materials in a more feminine light to create large complex multi-layered wall hangings.   

B R Goldstein  North Carolina and Toronto, Current Conditions

Materials are limited to low quality, often repurposed industrial textiles in their unaltered states. In our everyday lives, such discarded or abandoned objects, the detritus of consumerism, become buried from consciousness as they are stored or disposed out of sight.   

Current Conditions VI  Deer parchment, plastic sheeting, linen, burlap

The materials referenced in these works were manufactured for single use and yet often find their way to providing long term shelter for those displaced by systems of neglect. 

Current Conditions IX  artificial sinew, burlap, canvas, tarp, parchment, rust and steel

The seams create contrasting qualities of line, of borders, or containment.  Irregularities and asymmetries in the found materials have been intentionally unaltered to reference systemic erosions.    B R Goldstein

Tina Poplawski from Tiny, Ontario, Canada

An ongoing group of works have been inspired by the crocheted doilies created by my grandmother during WW 2 while imprisoned in Russia's Gulags.

Come away, O human child!  To the waters and the wild, With a Faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.  (sing the Chickadees)

Tina Poplawski

These sculptural paintings are made from crocheted rough-hewn jute, embedded with earth, dried botanical matter, acrylic mediums, glitter and winter stone, a self-setting clay.

Tina Popawski

paintings of chickadees, Fishers, squirrels, Ontario Turtles with botanical matter and crochet.

For me, these pieces bear witness to lives in peril and can be read as reliquaries and evocations of protection for the displaced persons, animals and natural world I venerate.  Tina Poplawski

The work is informed by the decorative folk painting and ornamentation of early Eastern European cultures who worshipped Matka Ziema - Mother of  Plants and Animals.  Tina Poplawski

Tuija Hansen, Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada

A selection of works from my research and practice documenting regional plant dyes through foraging, dyeing, record-keeping, and then displaying via the traditional Finnish weaving method known as Raanu.  The series begins in Finland using regional plants to connect with my family history, followed by exploring Northeastern and Northwestern Ontario plant colours during the pandemic.  

Raanu Vier Blanda / Mapping Via Plant Dyes                                                                                         foraged plant dyes, cotton, wool handweaving by Tuija Hansen

Tuija Hansen, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Raanu Old Roots New Seeds Community Dye Garden, cotton and wool,  fraged plant dyes, digital jacquard hand weaving.
 

Note to my blog readers:  Thank you for sticking with this blog.  I am going to try to put another World of Threads post up for before the New Year.