Like a Star in My Sky

Like A Star In My Sky 2020
wool, hand stitch
33" square  or 84 cm square

A Star in My Sky detail

A Star in My Sky (reverse side)
Wool and hand stitch  33" square or 84 cm square

April 2020:  Featured in the Toronto Star in article about Visible Mending
May 2020:  Sold through Perivale Gallery, Spring Bay Manitoulin Island and is now in private collection.

red catalogne

Red Catalogne
48" square when draped, 48 x 60" when extended
jounral paper, vintage damask table cloth, red cotton threads, hand stitching (couching)

The paper is stitched in horizontal rows, similar to the woven strips of used clothing in the French Canadian bed covers called catalognes.  Strips cut from journal pages filled with dreams, lists, thoughts, and phone call doodles were couched to a linen table cloth and form a safety blanket for the interior world.

Exhibition Record:  Fall of 2019,  Hard Twist 14: Entwined Gladstone Hotel,  curated by Chris                                             Mitchell and Helena Frey until January 2020

my open heart

My Open Heart  2017
58 inches wide by 48.5 inches high or 147 cm x 123 cm
wool with plant dyed silk, silk and wool threads, hand stitched

The circle in a square represents the inner self.  (Carl Jung)

Be sparser

Be emptier

I use a lengthy amount of time and touch

they are gifts for my viewer

Exhibitions:

2017:  The Cloud in Me,  David Kaye Gallery Toronto Ontario solo exhibition
2018:  Be Emptier, World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario, solo exhibition
2019:  Beauty, Emotion, Spirit, Soul, One Sky Gallery, Sudbury Ontario, solo exhibition
2019:  sold into private collection through Guildworks in Bloomfield Ontario

Basic Goodness

 Basic Goodness
stitch resisted cotton, procion dye, silk and cotton threads
hand stitched

36 inches high x 35.5 inches wide or 92 cm h x 90 cm w
2017

Exhibition record:

Basic Goodness is one of the seven new pieces created for Judy Martin's solo exhibition in October 2017 at the David Kaye Gallery, Toronto.
It is now in private collection.

Click on The Cloud In  Me, to see images and descriptions of the entire exhibition.
October 5 -29  2017  David Kaye Gallery, Toronto

Prayer Flag For Canada

 Prayer Flag For Canada   2017   57 inches wide x 90 inches high   (145 cm x 228 cm)

vintage women's handkerchiefs, red threads, handkerchief linen, wool dyed red

Premier exhibition in Gore Bay Museum's exhibition for Canada's 150th birthday celebration entitled Prayer Flags For Canada. The entire community was invited by Nicole Weppler, the curator of the museum,  to create more traditionally sized prayer flags and approximately 150 are the result.  Judy Martin was invited to create a large prayer flag.

Gore Bay Museum at Harbour View Centre throughout the summer (June 23 - October 5) and also outside the museum proper.

Some of the red threads bled.  The artist chose to leave this detail as a metaphor for women and for Canada's history.

photographs in this post by Sudbury photographer, Nick Dubecki.

moon cloth _ female figurine

 Moon Cloth     2016     Hand stitched hanging sculpture.
dimensions variable (135 cm h x 50 cm w x 16 cm d)
wool, indigo dye, cotton thread, silk thread, hand stitching   

Worked from the back of the cloth, strips cut from the bottom that were then couched in angles and circles.  The fabric became energized with hand work.

Inspired by the rotation of the moon, ancient female figurines from pre-history and the immensity of our vulnerable inner selves.

exhibition

Hard Twist 11  Spin  Augut 26 2016 - January 8, 2017, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Ontario Canada.

Perivale Gallery Manitoulin Island for the 2017 season

Time Passes Over the Earth

Time Passes Over The Earth    2015
silk rayon velvet, plant dyes, bamboo batt, backed with wool gauze, cotton and silk threads
hand pieced and hand  quilted
24.5" h x 20'5"w

What it FEELS like to live on Manitoulin Island.

Exhibition Record:
2016  My Corner of The World: Canada
          Stratford Perth Museum, Stratford Ontario, a SAQA exhibition (Studio Art Quilt Association).
          Michela Fitzsimmons; juror, Bethany Garner; co-ordinator
          Toured until 2018
2018  Available through David Kaye Gallery Toronto Ontario
2019  Beauty Emotion Spirit Soul exhibition at One Sky gallery, Sudbury month of April
2019  Available through Guildworks Bloomfield Ontario

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

self hug

self hug   2015  silk thread hand embroidery

self hug   2015   vintage monogrammed linen pillow case, silk thread, hand embroidery

self hug 2015 and gathering myself 2009, feel better installation

exhibition record:

2023:  included in Judy's solo exhibition Stardust, up for the entire summer at the Gore Bay Museum
2015:  P0P FOLK Textiles at la galerie du nouvel ontario, Sudbury, Ontario, Sophie LeBlanc curator
(They were part of Judy Martin's larger feel better installation which included 75 bundles and an interactive area where participants could wrap their own bundles)

2010:  Convergence at Tom Thomson gallery, Owen Sound Ontario  (juried exhibition) 

2010:  Be Safe My Love (solo exhibit)  Greenwood Quilt Gallery, Guelph, Ontario 

three moons

Three Moons  15" wide, 40" long, 2015,  silk charmeuse, indigo dye,  hand stitch resist and hand stitch with silk thread.(detail above)

Three Moons, 40" x 15", 2015   silk, indigo, stitch resist

Three Moons detail, 2015

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 

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