Articulation Textile Group - Textiles: Continuity and Diversity

By -

As a textile collective, Articulation Textile Group has been producing work and staging exhibitions for sixteen years. The group provides a direction for its members from time to time and guides the practice of its members. Equally important, the members have developed their individual skills and interest into personal bodies of work which exhibit diversity in both technique and content.

Lesley Turner
Succession

This textile comes off the wall and becomes a large (60"w x 96"h x 36"d) standing structure. Lesley uses a knitting technique to explore the movement of fluids in organic structures. 


Ingrid Lincoln
Bird Head Figure (detail)

Ingrid continues to work on figure-based pieces. She incorporates diverse materials, organic and inorganic, with linen and stitch. This head also features paper and resin. 


Wendy Klotz
Blanket For My Grandfather (detail)

Working with her personal reflections on war, Wendy uses her felting skills and her ability to infuse emotion into her work to make a blanket for the grave of her grandfather who was killed in battle. 


Amanda Onchulenko
Child's Play

Amanda quilted a hopscotch with deep personal meaning for her family. It references the experience of her daughter whose school trip was cancelled due to an attack on the airport. 


Donna Clement
Putting Up Preserves (details)

Donna uses canning jars to display aspects of her culture. She preserves these artifacts from her past and their association with violent events and the trauma of human dislocation. 


Leann Clifford
Fractured Stability (detail)

Metal and rust are used by Leann in this piece. The history of New Iceland, the Icelandic settlement in Manitoba, was her inspiration.


Textiles as a medium are used by these artists to express various concepts. Their individual and group participation has moved their response to the medium forward. These works show the diversity that results.

Location: Canada

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Art as Therapy From the Weyburn Mental Hospital, Saskatchewan

By -
Image
In 1930 Weyburn Mental Hospital, Saskatchewan was the largest building in Canada. Post WWII battle disorders caused a peak of the in-patient population in the hospital. The Soo Line Historical Museum in Weyburn has a large room of artifacts from the hospital, many of which are rather horrifying. They also have a collection of art painted by patients as a result of the art therapy program. A project Articulation members are working on is a personal response to war. Some of the members are looking at how war affects the whole family not just those who go to war.  The Soo Line Museum proved to be a rich primary resource for some members. Ingrid Lincoln, Donna Clement, Mandy Onchulenko. Equipped to carry out research: sketchbook/notebook, camera, a bag to hold pens, glue stick and gathered materials, sturdy walking shoes, dressed in layers and prepared for all weathers. But we do stop for meals. Leann, our host, had scouted out a number of different places for u
Read more

Elephant Rock Collapses - Hopewell Rocks, Nova Scotia

By -
Image
Elephant Rock at Hopewell collapses  .Read the news article here. It is a bit sad the Elephant Rock has collapsed to half its previous size. This is what the Hopewell Rocks looked like when Articulation visited in 2010 during their annual study session. Luckily several Articulation members preserved in their artwork the popular rock as so many thousands of tourists remember it. Wendy Klotz, Home and Away, wool, felting, hand stitching Here is Wendy Klotz's depiction of the rock as it was. Donna Clement, Erosion at Hopewell Rocks,  dyeing, painting, machine sewing And Donna's, worked in a different textile technique. Donna Clement, Erosion at Hopewell Rocks, detail
Read more

Gimli - a Little Bit of History

By -
Image
'In 1875 a group of Icelandic immigrants who had arrived in [Canada] moved to the west shore of Lake Manitoba where they had been granted a reserve of land by the Canadian Government...The immigrants formed their own administration based on a centuries-long tradition of democratic government...The Republic of New Iceland was created.' The Rural Municipality of Gimli was established in 1887. 'The early immigrants came full of hope for a new life of opportunities and settled the land made available through homestead rights. The free offer of a 1/4 section (64 acres) to common people, most of whom had never owned land was a major attraction. But there were many difficulties - dense bush, flies, field stones and harsh winters which had to be endured.' Quotes from various historic markers. The Icelanders brought their pagan religion with them and found many parallels and an affinity with the First Nations peoples' beliefs. This Unitarian church, bui
Read more