World of Threads Festival – Interview with Leisa Rich

Leisa Rich is a fibre artist, producing sculptures and installation works.   She believes that art is not always beautiful or appealing and should absolutely, always, have more than ordinary significance, should provoke a response, or should alter the viewer’s perception in some way.

To read her interview

http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artist_interviews/079_leisa_rich_12.html

Interviews produced by Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman


Leisa participated in the Solo Shows & Installations exhibit of Festival 2014 in the Corridor Galleries at our main festival venue at Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Centre in Oakville

http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/exhibitions_pages/2014_oakville/solo-shows-installations-qep.html

For Festival 2012, Leisa had work showing in De rerum natura (On The Nature of Things) at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, in Oakville.

http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/artwork_pages/2012/de_rerum_natura_joshua_creek_12.html


Above is Undue Growth, one of Leisa’s sculptural pieces featured in Festival 2012.