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Amanda McCavour - Toronto, Canada
Installation
Pattern Study is a large-scale textile collage that explores pattern, texture and line in space by looking closely at the structures found in textile-felts, knits and woven fabrics. This work will zoom in on these fibre constructions to explore their lines and patterns and will then expand the scale of these textile structures to the scale of architecture. Moving from systems that suggest disorder (the scribble of felted fabric) to systems based on the grid (woven fabric), this installation will move from disorder to order and back again.
Hanging in space, viewers will be invited to move through the various layers in this installation that hang overhead, where lines overlap and dissolve into each other.
This work finds its visuals in the structures of fabrics we wear and uses donated fabrics from the H&M Garment Collecting Program to create this large-scale work. This project attempts to shift the proportion of textiles to a monumental scale and draws attention to the fabrics that touch us every day. These fabrics are a resource and can be re-used and re-cycled. This project is a re-imagining of these interconnected and flexible systems.
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who explores line in the context of embroidery, drawing and large-scale installation. Her work explores thread and fiber’s duality- it’s subtle quality versus it’s accumulative presence and it’s structural possibilities versus its fragility.
DeSales Unviersity
MIchele Mrazik, one of our publich services librarians, helping students with their research.
I had another one posted of him staring down at his prey (although maybe unpleasant, I like it!) but after having a look through my shots again, I think this one is slightly (not much in it) clearer. Cropped heavily so poor quality really. Pity he didn't land in my garden so I could have got a bit closer but still it's a bird I didn't have a picture of yesterday :-)
CalArts School of Critical Studies reading featuring visiting artists John D'Agata and Lisa Teasley
CIA-20080312-3081
Photo by Steven A Gunther
© CalArts 2008
A macro study of fire sprinklers using my G9. I wanted to see how it stood up against my 30D with EF100mm f.2.8 Macro lens.
Taken on a Mamiya C330F, on Ilford FP4+. Processed in DD-X.
Read more about this event on my Steam trains and sunshine: Pickering 1940s Weekend blog article.
Silver Gelatin print quotes available on request.
Read more about this event on my Steam trains and sunshine: Pickering 1940s Weekend blog article.