---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------July 19 -August 12, 2012
Stitch & Burnt Exhibition
Featuring textile artworks, carvings, pyrography, and collaborative works by Sarah Haxby and Gerald Morrisseau
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Artist Statement and Gallery Submission
My work is hand-drawn on to the surface of the canvas using vintage, new and reclaimed threads. I juxtapose and overlap ideas of high and low brow art by placing needlework in the realm of fine art and the traditional painted surface -with a sense of humor, detail and intimacy- that is best conveyed by experiencing the work in person. My work seeks to be: wry in a Canadian fashion.
I am seeking further opportunities for exhibition of my work -preferably a solo exhibition, but I would consider a a group exhibition, especially it it featured other textile artists.
My Hooped! Canadian Identity Series is featured in a multi-page spread in the forthcoming book: Hoopla. <see below> and some of the Home and Hearth Series will be featured in the Stitch and Burnt exhibition at Coastal Patterns Gallery July 19- August 6, 2012 and at The Gallery at Artisan Square along with work by some members of the Fibre Arts Guild in January 2013.
I would like to hold an artists talk, host a Fiber Arts Social and offer some textile art embroidery basics and crazy quilt basics classes for youth and their grandparents (all ages with the adults helping the youth to learn. I would like to facilitate classes that encourage a true inter-generational mentor-ship model.
Thank you for taking the time to review this portfolio,
Sincerely,
Sarah Haxby
Stitch & Burnt Exhibition
Featuring textile artworks, carvings, pyrography, and collaborative works by Sarah Haxby and Gerald Morrisseau
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Artist Statement and Gallery Submission
My work is hand-drawn on to the surface of the canvas using vintage, new and reclaimed threads. I juxtapose and overlap ideas of high and low brow art by placing needlework in the realm of fine art and the traditional painted surface -with a sense of humor, detail and intimacy- that is best conveyed by experiencing the work in person. My work seeks to be: wry in a Canadian fashion.
I am seeking further opportunities for exhibition of my work -preferably a solo exhibition, but I would consider a a group exhibition, especially it it featured other textile artists.
My Hooped! Canadian Identity Series is featured in a multi-page spread in the forthcoming book: Hoopla. <see below> and some of the Home and Hearth Series will be featured in the Stitch and Burnt exhibition at Coastal Patterns Gallery July 19- August 6, 2012 and at The Gallery at Artisan Square along with work by some members of the Fibre Arts Guild in January 2013.
I would like to hold an artists talk, host a Fiber Arts Social and offer some textile art embroidery basics and crazy quilt basics classes for youth and their grandparents (all ages with the adults helping the youth to learn. I would like to facilitate classes that encourage a true inter-generational mentor-ship model.
Thank you for taking the time to review this portfolio,
Sincerely,
Sarah Haxby
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NEWS:
Nov 2011 Quoted in the National Post!
Sept 2011 The book: Hoopla The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, will feature a multi- page spread of my Hooped! Canadian Identity series as well as an interview about the series. Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it’s never gone before, in an astonishing, full-color display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as needlepoint nipple doilies and a ransom note pillow; it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work.
http://www.leanneprain.com/
Hoopla will be released Fall 2011, by Arsenal Pulp Press, by Leanne Prain, author of Yarn Bombing, (Yarn Bombing The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain.) yarnbombing.com www.arsenalpulp.com/bookinfo.php?index=294
Stay tuned for upcoming events:
Meet the Artists and the Author: talks and events such as stitch-ins were held in the Fall of 2011
More information TBA. Email me if you would like to be notified of event details.