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Contemporary Fibres at Mary E. Black Gallery and a NEW fibre arts blog from Rilla Marshall

artclothtext — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:55:00 +0000

My woven textile artwork will be exhibited at the Mary E. Black Gallery, Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia from Feb. 26th – April 12th, 2009. Contemporary Fibres is a four person exhibition featuring J. Penney Burton, Joanna Close, Margaret Forsey and myself, Rilla Marshall. The four of us graduated from NSCAD University in 2004 where we all studied textiles together. Five years later, we are all practicing textile artists, each exploring our chosen medium in very diverse ways. The opening for the exhibition takes place on Thursday, Feb. 26th at 6pm

I have also recently started an on-line blog – a great way for me to have a (free) on-line home base for my weaving practice, including both my production scarves and my artwork. Feel free to visit at: http://www.marshallarts79.blogspot.com I am updating it daily with thoughts and images about my work, inspirations, the art/craft community, and the business of craft.

submitted by Rilla Marshall

Suzanne Swannie at MSVU Art Gallery

artclothtext — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:41:00 +0000

Danish Modern: Suzanne Swannie Textil
MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

October 18 to November 23, 2008

“Suzanne Swannie is a Halifax-based designer and weaver who creates functional textiles, tapestries and large architectural installations for private and public environments. She also weaves pictorial tapestries and is known for unique fabric constructions such as the gallery installation Repassage. Both the woven works and the constructions display the “Danish Modern” principle of repetition of modular units as a means of generating surfaces and structures with a typical emphasis on rich colour harmonies.”

VIEW more work by Swannie

READ the catalogue essay by Rachel Gottlieb

Shellfish Purple Lecture at NSCAD University

artclothtext — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:00 +0000

NSCAD U Visitor Presentation
Shellfish Purple Dyeing by Dr. Takako Terada
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12 noon in D500 (NSCAD Boardroom)

Dr. Takako Terada is a professor at Kwassui Women’s College where she teaches in the Faculty of Wellness Studies. Shellfish purples from molluscs are her specialty and she has presented academic papers about her murex research in Norway, India, USA, El Salvador, and China.
Dr. Terada is currently engaged in a Japan-Canada project to be presented at a dye archeology conference in Istanbul this October.

Her recent commissions include a chasuble and murex-dyed vestments for the bishop of Nagasaki.

Dr. Takako Terada will talk about the historical/archaeological aspects relating to shellfish purple dyeing and its colouring properties. She will also present her own artistic work.

submitted by Anke Fox

Meta Incognita at The Mary E Black Gallery

artclothtext — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:50:00 +0000

image: Summer Progress by Lesley Anne Turner

February 22 to April 6

Opening Thursday, February 21 at 6pm

The Mary E Black Gallery at the NSCCD presents 11 fibre artists: Donna Clement (AB), Leann Clifford (SK), Gloria Daly (BC), Wendy Klotz (AB), Miriam Levi Birkenthal (MB), Ingrid Lincoln (MB), Linda MacKay (AB), Vickie Newington (AB), ReBecca Paterson (NS), Joan Saunders (AB), Lesley Anne Turner (AB) who have produced “Meta Incognita” an exhibition to accompany the new opera “Frobisher” a co-production of The Banff Centre and Calgary Opera.