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Kate Jackson is a visual artist based in Canada. She recently finished a 3 year artist residency at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries across Canada and internationally and is part of many private collections. Jackson has received awards for her work including The Artist Project Untapped Award 2009, The Helen Frances Gregor Scholarship -2008, OCC Scholarship-2008, and Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition Best in Show - 2007. Jackson studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design in the Material Art and Design Program (1999-2006) and also the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1999). She lived and worked at The Banff Centre from 2009 to 2011 and now calls Toronto her home city.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Eyelet Casualties Series

I am affected by images of dying soldiers and the violence of war.
Eyelet cloth, an inherently feminine cloth is used as both a canvas and a drawn line to convey images of war that are both sobering and whimsical.
Images of soldier life and death are on fabrics which evoke feelings of femininity, softness, safety, warmth, beauty, and domesticity - the embroidery and applique- execution is clean, tight and made with precision ensuring that feelings of love and devotion are inherent within each stitch.     
 
Materials: eyelet cloth, machine embroidery, hand embroidery
The actual size of the following work is 10"x10"








The following work is 5"x5" 

 

The following work is 20" x 20"






I continued with the same theme but made the work larger and appliqued antique lace which i hand dyed.
Title: Snow
Sixe of Work: 30"x30"



Title: Cogs




I also made some smaller work for the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition in 2008.



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