Experience Exhibitions Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame 1960–2000

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame 1960–2000

4 November 2023 – 18 February 2024

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Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame 1960–2000

About the Exhibition

Curated By

Michele Hardy, Timothy Long, and Julia Krueger

Organized in collaboration with

Nickle Galleries and the MacKenzie Art Gallery of Regina

Galleries

RHW / Hill / Rawlinson Galleries

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960–2000 looks back to the explosion of innovative textile-based art on the Canadian Prairies during the second half of the twentieth century.

With a focus on weaving and other interlace practices, such as rug hooking and crochet, the exhibition examines how artists of diverse backgrounds wove new histories of fibre during a period of intense energy and collective creativity.

This touring exhibition, a collaboration between Nickle Galleries (Calgary, AB) and the MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK), features sixty-one artworks by forty-eight artists and draws on public and private collections from across Canada.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.

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WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION

Red textile artwork hanging on display as if it's flying through the air horizontally. Other textile works can be seen in the background hanging on the wall.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Large textile works on display, one looks like a brown tree stump, one on the wall looks like colourful barnacles, others can be seen in the background.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Three large textile works are hung on the wall in the background, a tree like sculpture is placed in the middle with crochet and yarn boobs on top.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Uniquely shaped, large textile work hung on the wall featuring warm colours that relate to the title of the work.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries Eva Heller, Heat , 1983, Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Very large textile piece made of multiple panels hung on the wall.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Kaiji Sanelma Harris, Sun Ascending , 1985, Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, gift of Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd., Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Small sweaters are piled one on the other in the middle of the gallery floor. Two large textile pieces are hung on the wall in the background.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Hooked rug depicting traditional Métis floral designs and the artists home in south Saskatchewan.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. Margaret Harrison, Margaret's Rug , c. 2005, Private Collection. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.

Tree with bare branches made of wire and wool is seen hanging from the ceiling. Beside it is a large textile work hung on the wall.

Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000 (installation view), Nickle Galleries. L-Charlotte Lindgren, Winter Tree , 1965, Collection of Confederation Centre Art Gallery, CM 67.1.36; R-Whynona Yates, Hanging , 1974, Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Photo: Dave Brown, LCR PhotoServices.