Hard Twist 11: SPIN

The Gladstone Hotels Annual Group Fibre Art Show

August 26 to January 9, 2016

HARD TWIST 11 SPIN, the eleventh annual edition of the Gladstone Hotels signature show of textile-based art, invites artists to give us their own spin on spin.

To spin is to transform. Whether its turning a fleece into yarn for a cozy sweater or rotating a dubious fact through angles of truth, spinning changes what you started with into something very different.

Hard Twist has become an important annual event within the Canadian textile art community as well as being a signature event for the Gladstone. Hard Twist is curated by Chris Mitchell and Helena Frei.

HARD TWIST 11 PARTICIPANTS:

Stacie Go Eun Baek, Claire Bartleman, Annabel Berthoff, Jessica Bromley Bartram, Valerie Carew, Valerie Dennis, Lise Downe, Judy Duggan-McCormack, Martina Edmondson, Margot Fagan, Shannon Gerard and Liam Blackburn, Amanda Gresik, Connie Lynn Higgs, Wilma Kenny, Ketzia Kobrah and Laurel Sherman, Lynne M Mack, Judith E Martin, Kathleen Morris, Natalie Nadeau, Jenna Richards, Brooke Ripley, Rob Shostak, Jennifer Wigmore, Jen Wilson and Wenzi Li

HARD TWSIT 11 JURORS:

Julie Nicholson- Design advocate, Curator Do Design, co-founder TO DO Festival.

Dorie Millerson AOCAD, MFA Chair, Material Art & Design

Paula john Hard Twist 10 Artist

Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell Hard Twist curators

Lukus Toane Director of Exhibitions, Gladstone Hotel ex-officio