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Bill Morton | Tinctorium

Translator Bill Morton’s exhibition Tinctorium opens tomorrow night at 8 pm at Stride Gallery in Calgary, Alberta and runs until October 19, 2012. I feel privileged to have contributed a text for this exhibition of work by my friend and mentor Bill Morton. … Continue reading

06. September 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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Bill Morton exhibition opening soon…

Translator Last week I had the opportunity to take a few shots of Bill Morton at work on a new piece for his upcoming exhibtion Tinctorium, opening September 7 at Stride Gallery in Calgary. The exhibition will feature several new … Continue reading

13. August 2012 by Mackenzie Frère
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ArtClothText | Best of 2011

Translator2011 was a busy year on ArtClothText and I was hard-pressed to pull only a few highlights to share with you this New Year’s Eve. I suppose a good place to start would be Studio Practice, a series of posts … Continue reading

31. December 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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enmeshed…

TranslatorA few months ago I started enmesh. Here are some of the things I’ve been posting there…

31. December 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | Installation

Translator Installation of Recollect 2 was a breeze thanks to Kat Perez the exhibition coordinator. I was happy to have the work installed near my primary inspirations for this project – Laurie Herrick’s Purple Polychrome and Tree of Life. I … Continue reading

13. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | Finishing

Translator Today was the day (after six final hours of weaving) to hem stitch then cut Recollect 2 from the loom. After some repairs and wet finishing it will be ready to hang tomorrow. Here are a couple images of … Continue reading

13. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | Inertia

Translator Weaving continues this week. Slowly. I am aiming to cut the cloth from the loom no later than Thursday evening leaving a little time for finishing (overnight basically) before hanging in the gallery Friday afternoon. The finished work will … Continue reading

10. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | From the loom…

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07. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | Pattern variation

Translator I began weaving today with a tie up composed of three interleaved sequences of random integers. The plan is to change the tie-up each time I run out of treadling variations (approximately once a day). The blocks in the … Continue reading

04. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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MoCC Portland Residency | Threading

Translator Four-hundred forty done, three-hundred twenty left to thread. Weaving begins tomorrow.

03. May 2011 by Mackenzie Frère
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