Fibre Sculptures
MTHER Embroidery Thread, Metal 2024
Check In, reclaimed leather couch on wood board, 2026, 2 ft x 2 ft
Created in partnership with The Canadian Mental Health Association.
Windowpane reclaimed leather couch, thread, 2025, about 6 feet x 2.5 feet.
This piece was created for a collaboration with Habitat for Humanity. It began with a donated blue leather couch where I removed the leather from the couch frame, cut it into many strips, and then, using a tweed Windowpane pattern as reference, I wove the strips while keeping the edges unfinished to invite a discussion around participatory fibre art. With my father’s side of the family being cattle farmers in Ontario and before that, farmers from middle England for hundreds of years (where many tweed patterns originated from, made for farmers and the working class to wear and keep warm) and not eating beef for 30 years, working with leather was a charged experience. I was thinking a lot about animation/reanimation through art, collective practices of fibre work (quilts, hand stitching, domestic labour), and the ways industrious women have created using the scraps around them: reenvisioning “waste” into something useful, beautiful, and meaningful.
Spool 1, 2, 3 are a reflection on my earliest introduction to fibre arts through Spool/Corking knitting. Taught by my grandmother, this small-scale action led to creating site-specific fibre sculptures. Inspired by nostalgia, wall hung sculpture, and the juxtaposition of materials, this sculpture highlights line, geometric forms, and repetitive hand work. As a site-specific fibre-sculpture, each opportunity to display the Spool series results in a new arrangement of spools. Whether tightly hung in the corner of a room or vertically extending towards the ceiling, we are being asked to consider the conversations between each individual piece, as a collective, and with the space itself.
Spool 1
