Articulation Textile Group

An exhibition we all enjoyed was 'All Beings Confluence,' an interactive community art project spearheaded by Saskatchewan artist Martha Cole. She runs workshops in different communities across North America giving guidance on how to make large, transparent panels. She then loans collections of panels, according to the number requested, to be hung in a wide variety of spaces in many different communities. Viewers walk between the panels to enjoy works up close and to see the layered effects as different panels work together, such as these hens scratching beneath the flowers behind. Each panel is about one living being. It was interesting to note how many weedy-type plants were chosen when so much of the landscape is covered in commercial crops. This female connection with 'weedy' plants is from the time when women gathered them to feed and care for their families. This ancient knowledge continues to surface in women's artwork today. It is typical o

Here is Articulation working hard on their 2015 Retreat - at Moose Jaw's Temple Gardens Hotel and Spa . From left: Lesley Turner, Ingrid Lincoln, Amanda Onchulenko, Donna Clement, Wendy Klotz and Leann Clifford taking the picture. Unfortunately, Shannon Wardroper couldn't make it to this retreat. Here we all are, off to our water yoga class in geothermal water with the same mineral composition as the waters in Bath, England. After going through the yoga possess outside on the rooftop patio, we transitioned into the hot pool and moved through the poses again. We sipped an ice cold glass of water then rested. One of the main activities of the week was to get an idea of the sort of fibre art currently being produced in Canada's western provinces. Weyburn was the perfect stop with its 'Fibre Art Destination 2015' event with 16 different exhibitions. We had to work hard to see them all over the 2 days we had in Weyburn. The first stop was at t

The 3rd Canadian showing of Articulation and Material Girls' bodies of work opened in the Frazee Gallery on November 8th, 2013. ReBecca Paterson made it all happen. Bay of Fundy work and the River Thames work was hung together. Touching is allowed/encouraged       The exhibition is open until January 10th, 2014 Congratulations ReBecca, on presenting the work so well in the beautiful space you found.

Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters is opening in New Brunswick at the Saint John Arts Centre. Articulation, a Canadian exhibiting art group working with textiles and fibre as a fine art medium, takes traditional fiber art techniques in new and contemporary directions. Since 2004 they have organised annual study sessions to unique places in Canada, which serve to unify the resulting individual bodies of work when shown in their group exhibitions across Canada. A recent study of the Bay of Fundy coastline has generated a new path for Articulation leading to exhibiting internationally with another contemporary fiber arts group, Material Girls, based in London, England, who were inspired by their iconic River Thames. The resulting combined body of work, ARTICULATED MATERIALS: BRIDGING WATERS, consists of one 2D artwork each from ten Material Girls members and ten Articulation members. In addition, each group will have available more works to include in the exhibit

Articulation and Material Girls' exhibition 'Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters' was installed in the Tulista Park Gallery, Sidney, BC. It hung for 14 days.... ...while over 900 people visited it. Now it has been packed up and shipped across the country to the Bay of Fundy where it will be installed in the Frazee Gallery in the Saint John Arts Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick. This is a well travelled exhibition.

Our co-exhibitors The Material Girls have been getting lots of press with our show. Here is a wonderful article published in WORKBOX magazine about the exhibit...

Show #2 in the United Kingdom is coming up. Next weekend features a textile event in Horndon on the Hill, Essex . Their poster for the event... This is the continuation of the a joint venture between Articulation (Canadian textile group) and Material Girls (UK textile group) upon iconic waterways in their respective countries - the Bay of Fundy in Canada, and the River Thames in England. This show will travel the UK in 2012 and move to various locations across Canada in 2013 and 2014.