Cloud of Time

Cloud of Time
7.5 feet high x 9 feet wide
Artist Canvas, damask and silk fabrics, cotton embroidery floss, hand stitched
Part of the exhibition The Cloud In Me - October 2017 at David Kaye Gallery in Toronto Ontario Canada

This piece was reconfigured in 2017.

previously, the work had been a continuous strip.  It was exhibited as part of The Mended World exhibition in this earlier format.

Cloud of Time 2014
re-claimed linen damask and variety of blue fabrics
cotton floss, artist canvas, hand stitch    33 cm x 1806 cm   (13" x 711")

A measurement of one year of time.  (365 days)
One complete skein of embroidery floss is used to represent one day.

exhibition record:
2013  Mended World exhibition, Thunder Bay Art Gallery  September-October 2013
2014  Mended World exhibition, Art Gallery of Sudbury  January - February 2014

and
2015  Mended World exhibition, Homer Watson House and Gallery, May -June 2015

Studio photograph of Cloud of Time by Nick Dubecki, Sudbury
Gallery photograph of Cloud of Time reconfigured
installed at the David Kaye Gallery is by Frank Myers, Burlington

Cloud of Time will be exhibited twice more in its new configuration,
(photo of Judy Martin by Frank Myers)

at Mary E Black gallery in Halifax
as part of Cloth of Time exhibition with Penny Berens  July 13 - August 26 2018
and
at World of Threads festival in Oakville
in a solo exhibition   October 13 to November 25 2018

available for purchase: please contact David Kaye

red moons

Red Moons 2014

re-claimed wool blanket, wool threads, hand stitch 52 x 361 cm (20 x 142 ")

Made from a re-constructed 90+ year old wool blanket, this cloth holds time and memory.  The several threadbare areas evoke the man, woman or child who lay with the blanket and repeatedly pulled it up as a covering.  Many of the worn areas are mended with darning stitch by the artist and the edges strengthened with blanket stitch.  These areas of recent handwork add another layer of human touch.

exhibition record:

2015
Hard Twist 10:  Memory
Gladstone Hotel  1214 Queen Street W,  Toronto M6J 1J6

2014: 
Red Moons was included in Judy's solo exhibition, Lucky Protection 
The northern artist's gallery:  artists on Elgin 168 Elgin Street, Sudbury, Ontario
lower two photographs: Nick Dubecki, Sudbury

little bundles

little bundles  2014
Cotton, thread, hemlock twigs 
74 individual units, variety of sizes  (all can be held in your hand) 

bandaging, wrapping, shrouding, accumulation, repetition, doll-figures, ritual chant, hand touch, body gesture, the protection tradition of red thread

The process of wrapping is healing.  Inside each of the 74 bundles are four hemlock twigs collected and wrapped in 2011.  (see here) 

exhibition record:
The little bundles are an important component of Judy Martin's feel better installation.   The photos above show the installation in POP FOLK TEXTILES, la Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury, Ontario March 21- April 18 2015  (curator Sophie LeBlanc)

POP FOLK TEXTILES will also be exhibited in Toronto June 26-August 9 at the Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen Street.   Sponsored by Le Labo Gallery (586 Richmond St W)

Time, Dream, Memory series

Time, Dream, Memory: Time  Vintage materials , van dyke print, hand stitch, frame within a frame under glass  20 inches square  2014  Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory: Dream    vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame within a metal frame under glass  20 inches square  2014    Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory Memory     Vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame under glass within a metal frame, 2014  Judith e Martin

Time, Dream, Memory: Mother   vintage materials, van dyke print on hand made paper, hand stitch, vintage frame under glass within a metal frame (not shown)  2014  Judith e Martin

Exhibition history:

2014:  Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island
2014:   time, dream, memory: memory and time, dream, memory: mother showed at the Manitoulin Fine Arts Association Members exhibition in September 2014 at the Centennial Museum of Sheguiandah, Manitoulin Island
2014  the David Kaye Gallery ,Toronto, Ontario  time, dream, memory: time and time, dream memory : dream
September 2015: Craft Ontario's Craft on Tap fundraiser,  time, dream memory: mother was part of the silent auction in the distillery district of Toronto.
2016:  David Kaye Gallery, Gallery Artists exhibition included the Time and Dream pieces,
2018:  le Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, Sudbury fundraiser exhibition: time, dream, memory: time
2019:  Guildworks, Bloomfield Ontario, time, dream, memory: dream 

Lake

Lake  Indigo and hand stitch on silk, 2014  Judith e Martin

168 cm h x 133 cm w   (66" h x 52" w)

Materials: re-purposed linen damask, hemp silk blend fabric, indigo dye, cotton embroidery and quilting threads  (bamboo batt)

Techniques:  paste resist, hand embroidery, hand quilting.   (Entirely hand stitched)

the tuck that seams the two pieces of indigo dyed cloth together creates a horizon line.

2015  Perivale Gallery Spring Bay Manitoulin Island.  May 17- September 15 2015
2015  Quilts=Art=Quilts  Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center  Oct 31 2015 - Jan 3 2016
2016  World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario  Oct 29  - November 27 2016

Duet

Duet 

18" x 32" , 2014

materials: felt, silk threads, vintage table linen

technique:  hand stitch, framed under glass

Someone stitched this cloth years ago.  
Neglected for years, yet saved because it is beautiful. 
I strive to make my marks harmonious with hers.
Time is caught with thread.  

Exhibition Record

2014   Included in the Lucky Protection solo exhibition at the Northern Artist Gallery (Artists On Elgin), in Sudbury Ontario for the month of February, 2014
2014 , Stitches Across Time:  (invitation)  Dufferin County Museum and Archives, Ontario September 12-November 9.  Judith e Martin was a juror for the Stitches Across Time exhibition.
2015  Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island.   for the season - May - September 2015

naata cloth

Naata Cloth  2014
60 cm x 76 cm  (24 x 30)
Materials:  silk brocade, linen, cotton perle threads
Technique:  raw edge applique, chain stitch, french knots, bead stitch, all by hand
Matted and framed in shadow box under glass

 

Materials:  linen, silk brocade, cotton perle threads

Technique: hand stitched applique, embroidery

Photo:  Judith e Martin

Exhibition Record

2014:  Lucky Protection solo exhibition, Northern Artist Gallery in Artist on Elgin premises,

          Elgin Street, Sudbury    

Sold into private collection

Mended World Exhibition

Thunder Bay Art Gallery Installation, September 13-October 27, 2013, photo Klaus Rossler

   Art Gallery of Sudbury Installation, January 19 – March 2, 2014, photo Judy Martin

  Art Gallery of Sudbury Installation, January 19 – March 2, 2014, photo Judy Martin

The Mended World Exhibition consisted of the four meditation panels of the Manitoulin Circle Project,  Trinity (the small panel), Book of Hands (two books).
Included in the Mended World exhibition are the stitched journals Not to Know But To Go On and Cloud of Time.  

A catalog for the exhibition was published by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.  Dr. Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, scholar in material art, was invited to write the catalog essay.  

Cover image for the Mended World catalog is of Not to know but to go on , photo Judy Martin