Sep 28 - Dec 21, 2024 Douglas family art centre

Amanda McCavour: BLOOM

colourful wire forms suspended from ceiling

Amanda McCavour, BLOOM, 2022, Powder-coated wire.

“In this new wire work, circular wire shapes based on mathematical roulette curves found in the popular Spirograph toys were translated into sculptural lines. I am attracted to the gestural, playful quality of working with wire along with the shadows it casts and its feeling of lightness. These patterns combine my interest in drawing toys with radial patterns found in textile structures of crochet rings and tatting. This interest in mathematical patterning embedded into textile structures results in this hanging, mobile work. This piece is dense collection of sewn lines suspended in the gallery ceiling and arranged to look like floating cloud of colour. Bright blues, pinks and purples colour the space, creating a vivid atmosphere filled with saturated lines suggesting a galaxy, a bouquet of flowers and a floating colourful cloud. Viewers will move around the work and will be invited to lay beneath it. The clouds will move slightly with the movement of air, creating a faux surreal cloudscape. This installation was built with oppositions in mind contrasting detail and transparency with large solid spaces, lightness with the weight of the architecture and the organic with the built environment.”
– Amanda McCavour

Amanda McCavour portrait

Amanda McCavour is a Canadian artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations.

McCavour holds a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and in May 2014 she completed her MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. McCavour shows her work in galleries nationally and internationally with recent solo exhibitions in Ottawa (ON), Virginia Beach (VA) and Vancouver (BC) and has completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio in Toronto, and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. She has received numerous awards and scholarships from the Ontario Crafts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, The Handweavers and Spinners Guild of America, The Ontario Society of Artists, The Surface Design Association and The Embroiderers Guild of America.

Logo for the Ontario Arts Council.

Did you know?

Kenora’s Huskie the Muskie was built as a special roadside attraction during the building of the Trans-Canada Highway in the 1960s.  The name Huskie was chosen because it was submitted with a slogan: Huskie the Muskie says, “prevent water pollution”