The tenth annual edition of the Gladstone Hotels signature show of textile-based art explores the many and complex relationships between cloth and memory.

Join us for #HardTwist10 Opening Reception September 10th, 7-10pm in the 3rd and 4th floor Galleries exhibiting from Aug 27 to Dec 27, 2015.

Memory winds its way through textiles, a constant thread that runs through the earliest archaeological fragments, the latest experimental synthetics and everything in between. Textiles hold memory, recall memory, record - and occasionally obscure - memory. In some recent incarnations they even have memory.

Hard Twist has become an important annual event within the Canadian textile art community as well as being a signature event for the Gladstone.

2015 Participating Artists:

Jamie Ashforth, Libs Elliott Joshua Davis, Dylan Fish, Michelle Forsyth, Jen Hamilton, Harneet Heer, Jenny Iserman, Paula John, Mary Kroetsch, Nickolas Lascot, Andrew MacDonald, Judith E Martin, Andrew McPhail, Joyce Melander-Dayton, Lise Melhorn-Boe, Lheila Palumbo, Sam Pedicelli, Leslie Putnam, Anu Raina, Elycia SFA, Rob Shostak, Rebecca Siemering, Alec Sutherland, Lukus Toane, Andrea Vander Kooij, Helene Vosters,

Curators:

Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell

2015 Jurors:

Melanie Egan - Head of Craft and Design, Harbourfront Centre

Elizabeth Elliott - Textile Artist, Toronto

Sarah Quinton - Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada