[BCMA] Media release: Interface Group Exhibition

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

*What does “interface” mean to you?*


Thirty tapestry artists – 15 from Canada and 15 from England – have woven
small-format tapestries that reflect their personal interpretation of the
word “interface”. The small scale of the works - no larger than 25 cm.
square – challenged the artists to concisely express their artistic
concepts.



For each artist, interface is ultimately about connections and
relationships: within families and cultural heritage; between human
presence and the natural environment; within society and contemporary
politics; or the abstract interface between the artist and tapestry loom.
With tapestry, the warp threads held taut on the loom interweave with the
colorful weft fibers passing over and under and under and over. Warp and
weft are the interface that simultaneously creates both the cloth itself
and the image of the tapestry.



The realization of this exhibition, featuring the tapestries of artists
from two countries & with different levels of weaving experience, has been
the interface for communicating with creative expression.

TAPESTRY TOURING INTERNATIONAL is a not-for-profit group whose core aims
are to provide opportunities for tapestry artists from different countries
to work together on a theme, creating small-format hand woven tapestries
and to exhibit together in online and international gallery-based touring
exhibitions.



INTERFACE is the second in a series of touring exhibitions featuring
tapestry artists from different countries. ELEMENTS: earth, wind, air, fire
toured England, Australia, and the United States during 2016-2019. Future
online and touring exhibitions will involve tapestry artists from other
countries, with exhibits based on a new theme.



TAPESTRY TOURING INTERNATIONAL projects are created and directed by Jane
Freear-Wyld, Coventry, England.



INTERFACE is sponsored in part by *yarnworthy* – hand-dyed yarns from
Shropshire, UK.



Presented by the StFX Art Gallery, in partnership with MSVU Art Gallery,
and The Department of Canadian Heritage: the Government of Canada.


*Interface *

*Group Exhibition*

March 11 – April 22, 2021



CCBC Gallery

1386 Cartwright Street

Vancouver, BC

V6H 3R8






*jasmine hynes*

she|her|hers

community initiatives coordinator

craft council of bc

craftcouncilbc.ca <http://www.craftcouncilbc.ca/>



1386 cartwright street

vancouver, bc V6H 3R8
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