Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists Murray Gibson /// Jane Kidd /// Ann Newdigate
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Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists Murray Gibson /// Jane Kidd /// Ann Newdigate overandunderandoverandunder… /// 1 overandunderandoverandunder... Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists Murray Gibson /// Jane Kidd /// Ann Newdigate overandunderandoverandunder… /// 1 Murray Gibson Pages 14–21 Jane Kidd Pages 22–29 Ann Newdigate Pages 30–37 Foreword Page 4, overandunderoverandunder... Ann Newdigate List of Works Page 38, Murray Gibson Jane Kidd by Deborah Forbes Pages 5–12 ver under dund 14 /// o and andoveran er… Colophon Page 40 Murray Gibson Ann Newdigate Numbering Familiar Series: of Days, 1994 Carrie A Cross Jane Kidd 153 x 92 cm inherited Wonderland Wool and silk Ann Newdigate considerable Series: Folly, 2016 Familiar Series: property provided 182 x 121 cm Sad Little that she did not Wool, cotton, Coptic Ancestor., marry certain rayon, silk, linen n.d. people., n.d. 28 x 23 cm 28 x 23 cm cotton, silk, linen, cotton, silk, linen, cotton, wool and cotton, wool and some synthetics some synthetics overandunderand overandunder... FOREW/RD LIST OF WORKS JANE KIDD I n a time of instantaneity MURRAY GIBSON and the global outsourcing of to the significance of the ubiq- 1. Wonderland Series: skilled labour tasks, tapestry uitous and enduring practice of 1. Statue of Limitations, 1990 Curiouser and Curiouser #2, by artist-makers rather than tapestry, bolstered by thoughts 173 x 160 cm 2015 artist-designers is rare indeed. from the three artists. Wool 8. Plot, 2014 46 x 183 cm Nevertheless, weaving is one 44 x 44 cm Wool, cotton, rayon, silk of humanity’s most ancient Ann Newdigate’s ongoing 2. Cross Town, 1991 Wool and cotton with mounted on a wooden shelf creative and technological prac- artistic and educational practice 170 x 163 cm embroidered embellishment tices, and in some form has spans four decades and multiple Wool and silk Collection: Alberta Foundation 2. Curiosities Series: Pairing #2, existed for at least 12,000 years. continents, earning her the for the Arts 2013 The works by Ann Newdigate, Saskatchewan Lieutenant 3. Babel, 1991 66 x 56 cm Jane Kidd and Murray Gibson in Governor’s Life Time Achieve- 157 x 155 cm 9. Revenge: Tereus, Philomela, Wool, cotton, silk, mounted on overandunderandoverandunder... ment Award. The Saidye Wool Procne, 2014 a wooden board and shelf raise provocative and pertinent Bronfman Award, part of the 44 x 164 overall questions about the use of Canada Council’s prestigious 4. A Numbering of Days, 1994 Wool and cotton 3. Curiosities Series: Pairing #3, traditional skills, changing Governor General’s Awards, Thanks also to Kelly Hartman 153 x 92 cm 2013 6. Wonderland Series: Folly, perceptions of time, and how recognized Jane Kidd’s lengthy, of Hartman Design Studio for Wool and silk 10. Arachne, 2016 66 x 56 cm 2016 tapestry, a seemingly anach- varied and continuing contribu- her imaginative and sympathetic 57 x 60 cm Wool, cotton, silk, mounted on 182 x 121 cm ronistic practice, is relevant tions to the fine craft of tapestry design of the publication, and 5. Annunciation: Conturbatio, Wool and cotton a wooden board and shelf Wool, cotton, rayon, silk, linen as contemporary art. in 2016. Murray Gibson, to the Canada Council for the Cogitatio, Interrogatio, Woven while holding an Arts himself an alumnus of ACAD Arts and the City of Medicine Humiliatio, Meritatio, 1995 Nova Scotia Creation Grant 4. Curiosities Series: Pairing #4, 7. Land Sentence: Arbour, 2009 Herself an artist and educator, who studied with Jane Kidd, Hat for their ongoing support 50 x 35 cm (each) 2013 83 x 205 cm Deborah Forbes has brought exhibits internationally while of Esplanade Art Gallery’s Wool and cotton 11. Valkyrie: Web of War, 66 x 56 cm Wool, cotton, rayon, silk, linen her considerable experience teaching in Nova Scotia, and exhibitions, publications and 2018 45 x 117 cm Wool, cotton, silk, mounted Collection of the Alberta as a tapestry-maker to her was named a Master Artisan programs. 6. The Lady of Shalott, 2008 Wool and cotton on a wooden board and shelf Foundation for the Arts role as guest curator of by Craft Nova Scotia in 2015. 60 x 60 cm Woven while holding an Arts overandunderandoverandunder... We are privileged to present Joanne Marion, Wool and cotton Nova Scotia Creation Grant 5. Curiosities Series: Pairing #6, 8. Land Sentence: Zoo, 2012 for which we are grateful. their intricate and accomplished Director/curator, 2013 99 x 200 cm CONTENTS I thank her also for the main works in the exhibition and the Exhibitions & Collections 7. Unknowing, 2012 12. Ariadne, 2018 66 x 56 cm Wool, cotton, rayon, silk, linen text, in which she applies her catalogue, and thank them for Esplanade Arts & 60 x 45 cm 57 x 47 cm Wool, cotton, silk, mounted Collection of Salt Spring Island astute, questioning intelligence their many contributions. Heritage Centre Wool and silk Wool and cotton on a wooden board and shelf Public Library 4 /// overandunderandoverandunder… overandunderandoverandunder… /// 15 overandunderandoverandunder… /// 23 overandunderandoverandunder… /// 31 38 /// overandunderandoverandunder… overandunderandoverandunder… Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists Murray Gibson /// Jane Kidd /// Ann Newdigate By Deborah Forbes, 2018 JANE KIDD I Divided and Undivided? MURRAY GIBSON ARTIST STATEMENT destructive relationship to III have had a passionate interest ARTIST STATEMENT the world around us (Land in tapestry since, as a teenager, The complexities embedded in As an artist, I explore ideas that Sentence Series 2009 – 2012). I dropped down a rabbit hole our understandings of the word I have been a tapestry artist for reference my experience of the More recently I have become in the millefleur of the Unicorn tapestry are similarly embedded almost 35 years. During this world. I work almost exclu- increasingly interested in the Tapestries (1495–1505 CE) at However one looks at it, the in trying to decode the place The Drapery Series is a collec- time my artistic concepts, designs sively with woven tapestry, use of technology to manipulate the Cloisters in New York City. word tapestry seems to draw us tapestry weaving occupies in tion of tapestries inspired by and technical approaches to which I find to be a compelling and engineer the environment. Later, I learned to weave into thinking about relatedness contemporary art. The follow- women of myth and legend, weaving have changed and dev- medium because it provides a Recent advances now provide tapestry in Edinburgh from and rich complexity. Interest- ing discussion with and about poetry and prose who are eloped, but there is a common means to develop content the means to disrupt evolution- ARTIST BIO Archie Brennan, internationally ingly, in trying to write words three contemporary Canadian textile practitioners; with their thread that runs throughout my through imagery. I am drawn ary biology, altering genetic ARTIST BIO overandunderandoverandunder… renowned tapestry artist. with meaning about contemp- artist-weavers, Murray Gibson, practice, they control the lives practice; that is, my concepts to the material identity of material to create genetically Ann Newdigate holds degrees Although my art practice has orary art and tapestry weaving, Jane Kidd and Ann Newdigate, and deaths of others, and at and imagery are best realized as tapestry and committed to modified organisms, clones, and Jane Kidd taught at ACAD ANN NEWDIGATE in African Studies and English Three Contemporary Canadian Tapestry Artists moved away from tapestry, it has been difficult not to talk reveals that what makes tap- times, of themselves. These woven cloth, rather than being My most recent tapestries ARTIST BIO finding meaning and relevance hybrids. For a layperson such from 1980 – 2011 and has ARTIST STATEMENT Literature from Cape Town Murray Gibson /// Jane Kidd /// Ann Newdigate I remain curious about the about everything at once. How- estry weaving a pursuit so tapestries share a common more suited to presentation in reference women of literature in the process of handwork. as myself, these developments exhibited in numerous solo University, South Africa, and breadth of contexts that adopt ever hard I try to keep clear, distinct, and so grounded in aesthetic of an abstracted some other art form, or being and myth who are textile Murray Gibson studied are both intriguing and disturb- and over sixty group exhibitions I believe that artists do not has a BFA and MFA from the the word tapestry, as well as focused sections, the ideas run a continuum of history, is its background overlaid by a woven “translations” of other practitioners; their practice in tapestry weaving at the Alberta For a number of years, ing (Curiosities Series: Pairings in Canada, the USA, Japan, choose to make Tapestry. University of Saskatchewan. This publication was produced the breadth of contemporary away into collisions at inter- ability to construct meaning in delineated image. The artistic media, unless this some way involves life and College of Art and Design I explored the implications #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #6, Poland, Hungary, and Australia. Tapestry chooses the artists. She completed a post-graduate by the Esplanade Art Gallery in contexts and content that make sections; everything is talking ongoing contemporary worlds. abstracted background is approach is the means to an death. The Three Fates (ACAD) with Jane Kidd, of accumulating, collecting 2012 – 2016 and Wonderland Kidd’s work is held in private Tapestry is a tyrant. year in the Tapestry Department, conjunction with the exhibition Guest Curator: Deborah Forbes their way into tapestry weaving. and colliding at the same time Even in current contemporary derived from images of gowns end rather than the end itself. spinning, measuring, and graduating in 1985. After ten and displaying objects from Series 2014 – 2017). and public collections including But it is a generous tyrant that Edinburgh College of Art, overandunderandoverandunder... Text: Deborah Forbes There is a book or article in so that only fragments surface times, the history of tapestry these heroines wear in other, cutting the Thread of Life are years of studio practice, material culture and the natural Canada Council Art Bank, bestows many rewards, and Scotland.