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Textile sculptures detail beauty and fragility
June 1st, 2018
Textile artist Jannick Deslauriers takes delicate fabrics and creates detailed sculptures of objects that seem to be lost in time, broken and decaying. Her work evokes a sense of the ephemeral nature of commonplace items that we assume are solid and unchanging—telephone poles, an apartment building or a piano, for example. The Montreal-based artist’s recent […]
Sculpted silhouettes
October 1st, 2015
London artist Benjamin Shine says he has spent more than a decade exploring the idea of bringing the line to life through “painting with fabric.” His tulle works are created by pleating and manipulating the material into a form, centering on ideas of strength, fragility and the fleeting moment. His latest tulle exhibition, The Dance, […]