Showing posts with label bundles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bundles. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2015

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)

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Canadian Pioneer

 Canadian Pioneer, 48" w x 64" h, re purposed wool blankets, wool fabrics, wool yarns

 hand pieced, slashed, mended, bundle-tied, felted, quilted
completely hand stitched

Exhibition History

Ontario Craft 2013 :  Ontario Craft Council Gallery   October 2013  Toronto, Ontario
International Design Show in the Ontario Craft Council booth, November 2013, Toronto, Ontario

Lucky Protection: Northern Art Gallery   solo exhibition at the northern art gallery (Artists on Elgin) February 1 - 28, 2014 Sudbury, Ontario

Quilts=Art=Quilts:  Juried into this exhibition by Kathleen Loomis and Valerie Goodwin
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center,  November 1 2014 - January 4 2015, Aurburn New York, USA
awarded first prize

The Perspective From Here  Thunder Bay Art Gallery  summer of 2017  an exhibition to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday and includes 150 artists from North Western Ontario.  Thunder Bay Ontario Canada  June 23 - September 10, 2017 

Entered the permanent collection of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in mid November 2017.

The World We Know - a group exhibition (12 artists) of new acquisitions of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery - April - June 2022

Friday, December 21, 2012

pioneer babies

Pioneer  Babies, vintage domestic linens wrapped and then stitched around cut spring branches to make bundles
all have been embroidered with red silk thread
 some are wrapped with cotton tape

sizes variable,  8 inches in height to 16 inches in height.  Five shown (eight have been made)
most are filled with flowering pussy willow or forsythia branches

One has been exhibited. The one on the extreme right was reworked and included in the Lucky Protection exhibit, Feb 1 - 28 2014, (solo) at The Northern Artist Gallery (organized by Artists on Elgin) in Sudbury, Ontario.