We exhibited some of the Lizz Aston´s work at Festival 2012.
The most important source of inspiration for Lizz is to be constantly engaged in looking at what is going on in contemporary art and craft today. She also enjoys going to galleries, looking at art and doing research online, as well as attending lectures and workshops
Catherine Dormor of Cambridge, England, came to textiles through ecclesiastical embroidery, now working in sculpture and installation. She often uses photography, incorporating her images into textile pieces. Her inspiration stems mainly from everyday observations and theoretical and language-based texts/thinking.
Emily Jan is from Oakland, California, USA and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A lot of Emily’s work focuses on the animal kingdom, it often has a mythical quality with political undercurrents. Emily: “I find that creatures are a good back-door way into talking about all kinds of human issues which are either ethereal and difficult to […]
Emma Nishimura from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, draws a lot of inspiration for her artwork from the complicated history of her grandparents. They were interned as Japanese Canadians in WWII. Using photographic records, she explores the relationships and interactions between the sites where these stories occurred and the memories themselves. Emma has also traveled to these locations, witnessing what remains, forming new memories – an extension and continuation of the original story.
