Line and Gesture: Drawing with Materials
October 13, 14 + 15
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Amanda McCavour
Materials Fee: $50 (paid to Instructor)
Students: 12
In this highly creative and playful three-day workshop, students will explore expressive techniques, including drawing with ink, threads and wire, coiling yarns and experimenting with hand and machine stitching as well as working with water-soluble fabrics. Students will create a series of experimental 2 and 3-D samples that will serve as a basis for future full-scale work. As well as guiding hands-on sessions, Amanda McCavour will share her process with creating large-scale textile installations.
Open to all levels of experience.
Amanda McCavour is an artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. By sewing into fabric that dissolves in water, she builds up stitched lines on a temporary surface. The crossing threads create strength so that when the fabric is dissolved, the thread drawing can hold together without a base. With only the thread remaining, these images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works raveled strength.
McCavour holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and in May 2014 she completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. McCavour shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions in Ottawa (ON), Virginia Beach (VA) and Vancouver (BC) and has completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio in Toronto, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. She has received numerous awards and scholarships from the Ontario Crafts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America, The Ontario Society of Artists, The Surface Design Association and The Embroiderers Guild of America.