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You're invited to "Hooking Goes Pop: Contemporary Rug Hooking" by Terri Whetstone and Rose Wilson.
This exhibition brings together two visual artists working with rug hooking, exploring contemporary approaches through technique, materials, and personal narrative as subject matter. Rug hooking, and fibre arts in general, has seen a surge in popularity in recent years, driven by people’s search for activities during the Covid pandemic and also by the development of new tools and novel materials. This exhibition highlights the emergence of new themes and ideas being expressed through rug hooking that go beyond the traditional motifs so often seen in our community. It seeks to encourage individual exploration of the medium as a form of self-expression and narrative (pictorial) story-telling.
There is both graphic and text-based work, which compliment each other in their wry humour while riffing on mass culture. The work can be considered contemporary Pop Art in both its content and its visual impact; and thoroughly Post-Modern in its tongue-in-cheek, confrontational self-awareness of style.
Rose’s work is reminiscent of both tattoo art and comic book illustration, while Terri’s text-based work with stylized consideration for the “right” font to match the word plays
with expectations of appropriate language and the written word.
About the Artists: Rose Wilson and Terri Whetstone were mutual admirers of each other’s work, prompting them to meet online through Instagram’s International rug hooking community. They have similar sensibilities in their approaches to rug hooking,
both drawing inspiration from popular and commercial culture through the lens of their personal experiences and interests.
Rose lives in Ottawa where she works in communications. Her summers are spent at her home on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland. Rose grew up in Halifax, NS. Terri lives in Blandford on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, having made a blind move to that tiny village from the bright lights of Toronto 35 years ago. She is originally from Edmonton.
[email protected]
You're invited to "Hooking Goes Pop: Contemporary Rug Hooking" by Terri Whetstone and Rose Wilson.
This exhibition brings together two visual artists working with rug hooking, exploring contemporary approaches through technique, materials, and personal narrative as subject matter. Rug hooking, and fibre arts in general, has seen a surge in popularity in recent years, driven by people’s search for activities during the Covid pandemic and also by the development of new tools and novel materials. This exhibition highlights the emergence of new themes and ideas being expressed through rug hooking that go beyond the traditional motifs so often seen in our community. It seeks to encourage individual exploration of the medium as a form of self-expression and narrative (pictorial) story-telling.
There is both graphic and text-based work, which compliment each other in their wry humour while riffing on mass culture. The work can be considered contemporary Pop Art in both its content and its visual impact; and thoroughly Post-Modern in its tongue-in-cheek, confrontational self-awareness of style.
Rose’s work is reminiscent of both tattoo art and comic book illustration, while Terri’s text-based work with stylized consideration for the “right” font to match the word plays
with expectations of appropriate language and the written word.
About the Artists: Rose Wilson and Terri Whetstone were mutual admirers of each other’s work, prompting them to meet online through Instagram’s International rug hooking community. They have similar sensibilities in their approaches to rug hooking,
both drawing inspiration from popular and commercial culture through the lens of their personal experiences and interests.
Rose lives in Ottawa where she works in communications. Her summers are spent at her home on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland. Rose grew up in Halifax, NS. Terri lives in Blandford on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, having made a blind move to that tiny village from the bright lights of Toronto 35 years ago. She is originally from Edmonton.
Admission
Pricing: Free
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