Women of Fibre, at the Whyte - part 2

Photos of the six Articulation artists, along with their artist statements...

And here we all are, dressed in our artist black with identifying scarves, for the reception that evening.

Left to right: Vickie Newington, Ingrid Lincoln, Wendy Klotz, Gloria S. Daly, Donna Clement, Lesley Turner.

Show at the Whyte Museum of the Rockies

November 26 was the opening of our latest exhibition in Banff, Alberta at the Whyte Museum. Called WOMEN OF FIBRE, we shared the main gallery with 94 year old Mary Garnham Andrews, a local weaver who has just donated her life's work to the Whyte.

The signage outside:

and walking into the gallery:

 Gloria S. Daly's piece titled Glacier.

and Vickie Newington's felt and glass pieces.

Exhibition Opening 'ARTICULATION'

Exciting news is of our exhibition opening this Saturday night (November 26th) at 7pm at the Whyte Museum of the Rockies in Banff with my textile group "Articulation".

The exhibition at the Whyte Museum is the result of our two artist residencies at the Leighton Studios at the Banff Centre for the Arts back in 2008 and 2009. The show is based upon mountain culture and women who have lived through the years in the Rocky Mountains. Our working title was WOMEN ROCK.

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 "ARTICULATION"
Where? Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff AB
When? November 26, 2011 to January 29, 2012

Opening Reception - Saturday, November 26 at 7pm with all 6 participating Articulation artists attending. Demos will also be done throughout the evening by Articulation.

Attending artists:
Donna Clement
Gloria S. Daly
Ingrid Lincoln
Lesley Turner
Vickie Newington
Wendy Klotz

Quilt Canada 2010

As invited stitch artists to the national QUILT CANADA 2010, our group Articulation was thrilled to be a part of this major show. Held at the Convention Centre in downtown Calgary this past week, we talked to a large number of the approximately 2000 people who entered the doors each day.

We started the week with three cars loaded to their brims with art, tables, ladders, a tool box, and easels.




Once we entered the building and started hanging the show... two days had past!




Gradually it all came together and we gathered to do our ritual tour where each artist talks about their pieces so that when the time comes to tour other people around, we can all talk about every piece in the show.

We had two scheduled 'gallery talks' during the four day show and were able to break into smaller groups as seven of the nine Articulation artists had travelled to Calgary for this week. For all the rest of the time we would talk to people individually and explain who we were and the stories behind our art.


above: Gloria S. Daly's Tangled - and Leann Clifford's (top) Autumn Leaves (bottom) Wheat


Ingrid Lincoln's Graffitti and Cityscape - and Lesley Turner's Meadow


Vickie Newington's Alley - and Wendy Klotz's The Kelly Building


Lesley Turner's Provisioning - and Donna Clement's Motif de Fleur

Banff - Day 22

Snow! Just when you think spring has sprung - the last couple of days have been about +10c - you wake up to fresh snow, lots and lots of it! Because we are safely hunkered in and don't have to shovel it or drive in it, we could just sit back and admire how gorgeous the mountains look blanketed and muffed by it, while hearing reports of how Calgary was snowed in. My husband reported that the snow was over the top of his shovel and because it was so wet and heavy, it was exhausting shoveling it.

Here are some shots of my Rundle mountain and those pine from yesterday...


Meanwhile we were safe and warm in our cabin in the woods and everyone was working at being very productive. Wendy... Gloria... Ingrid... Lesley...

I was working on a couple of pieces. One was the squares I was attaching by hand that I finally finished and am now considering the next layers. I am between a gridded sheer, a hand dyed silk, or a combination of the two - leaning towards the combination.


Then I got back to my Rocky Mountain flowers and making dye samples for when we return to the dye studio on Monday. I have a hand-painted cotton background that I stamped the first week with hand-made stamps of the Brown Eyed Susan, Queen Anne's Lace and Indian Paintbrush flowers. Then I have been playing with squares of hand-dyed silks and their positioning. I have decided to echo the original spiral shape and sew them on with free machine embroidery. The next step is to put them into a dye pot where I will dye the cottons one colour and the silks another colour.

Banff - Day 9

I have been querying others in the group about their general themes for their work in Women Rock and will report on them in the next couple of days.

First up is Gloria S. Daly. She focuses on hand stitching and brought to Banff one piece that she will work on for her entire time here. Her main themes are glaciers, ice and cold. This is what she has been working on for the past week (while the four others of us were playing in the dye studio, she has been hard at work in the Leighton Colony studio.) The background is a composite of her hand dyed Indigo pieces, and she is adding Indigo dyed silk ribbons, Swarovski crystals and french knots. The size is approximately 40" by 40".

full piece:

close up #1:

close up #2: