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Love Lace

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Anne Mondro | Detroit's Shadow, 750 x 500 x 500 mm, thin steel and copper wire crochet | image: Patrick Young

134 artists from 20 countries unleash their passion for lace in this spectacular exhibition of winning entries and finalists in the Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award.

Shane Waltner | Another World Wide Web, 1500 mm (approx), Shetland lace knitting using shirring elastic | photo: Marinco Kojdanovski

Lace offers the mystery of concealment and the subtle interplay of space, light and shadows. Its layering can enhance the human body and create alluring effects in interior design and architecture. Though lace is usually associated with textiles, curator Lindie Ward broadened the definition of lace to include any ‘openwork structure whose pattern of spaces is as important as the solid areas’.

The exhibition ranges from bold large-scale installations and sculptures to intricate textiles and jewellery. Materials include gold and silver wire, linen and silk as well as mulberry paper, tapa cloth, horse hair, titanium and optical fibre.

Kim Lieberman | Tribe, 300 x 150 x 80 cm, bronze figures with bobbin lace

See and read more on the museum’s website.

Love Lace runs until April 2012 at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.

Links to artists in this post: Anne Mondro, Shane Waltner + Kim Lieberman

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Q the Arts | This Saturday only!

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Fairy Tales Presentation Society and Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre are thrilled to present Q the Arts, Calgary’s inaugural Queer Arts & Cultural Festival! The festival will feature a broad spectrum of artistic genres, including visual art, theatre, music, dance and spoken word, with artists from Calgary and across Canada.

As Calgary’s Queer Arts & Culture Festival, Q the Arts will embrace artists who are LGBTTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit and questioning), and also those who subscribe to culturally, politically, artistically and otherwise alternative and innovative ways of contributing to society. Queer is a vista, a way of looking at the world differently, with an eye towards diversity, critical thinking and inclusion.

Don’t miss this landmark event! This one-day festival is a celebration of Calgary’s LGBTTQ community and of our city’s diversity and inclusivity. Mark your calendars for March 5 and prepare yourselves for a decidedly queer evening of art & culture.

Featuring: Light Fires , Backyard Betties, Lindsay Brandon, Emanuel Ilagan, Laurie MacFayden, Travis McEwen, Jessica McMann, Jennie & Julie Orton, Brianna Strong, Jamie Tea, Chantal Vitalis

Q the Arts will also be turning into a dance party after the show featuring DJ Michelle C

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Warm up…

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Took a walk at lunchtime with two colleagues (thanks Barb and Roisin!) to see a car covered in crochet and knitting. As we are experiencing a chinook here in Calgary it was a gorgeous, slushy, sunny afternoon.

I am posting a couple images here because I am unsure who made this thing. It is laid over a car parked near the Sunnyside train station in Kensington…anyone?

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Knitted Knotted Netted

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Abigail Doan, Knitted Flotsam 01, 2009, Crocheted, twined, handspun and recycled fiber, string, balloon, paper, 12" x 7" x 6", courtesy of the artist

Abigail Doan, Knitted Flotsam 01, 2009, Crocheted, twined, handspun and recycled fiber, string, balloon, paper, 12" x 7" x 6", courtesy of the artist

Knitted, Knotted, Netted is at the Hunterdon Art Museum, October 11, 2009 – January 24, 2010. The opening reception is tomorrow, Sunday October 18, with an artist panel discussion at 4:00pm. Exhibiting artist Abigail Doan is posting photos on her artist blog, including the work of Leslie Pontz, Ann Coddington Rast and Kazue Honma and others – definitely work checking out!

Knitted, Knotted, Netted provides an opportunity to sample some recent art made with knitting, knotting and netting. These techniques with ancient lineages have had a resurgence in the art world through the creativity and ingenuity of contemporary artists. Each of these methods involves the looping of a thread or cord; this differentiates them from braiding and weaving, in which elements may interlace but not necessarily loop through each other.

Two-and three-dimensional artworks use not only plant and animal materials but also industrial and synthetic materials, creating looped structures never envisioned in earlier contexts. Such work is innovative and surprising, inspiring to practitioners of textile and fiber arts and intriguing to a broader audience. Among the artists in this exhibition are several celebrated practitioners whose work explores the fluid boundary between the traditionally defined categories of “art” and “craft.”

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Josh Faught wins Betty Bowen Award

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Untitled, 2008, crocheted hemp and garden trellis - Lisa Cooley Fine Art

I recently discovered the work of Josh Faught reading an articlre by Jen Graves on SLOG. Faught is the latest winner of the Seattle Art Museum’s $15,000 Betty Bowen Award. He is represented by Lisa Cooley Fine Art in New York where he has an upcoming solo exhibition in early 2010. From his bio…

Josh Faught lives and works in Eugene, Oregon. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Fibers at the University of Oregon and has exhibited widely in the United States. His work not only graces the sleeves of the band Grizzly Bear’s recordings Horn of Plenty and Friend but also is included in the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Untitled 2008 woven fabric 4 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches JF012

Untitled, 2008, woven fabric, 4.5 x 8.25 inches - Lisa Cooley Fine Art

Click either image to view more of Faught’s work.

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