Craft Awards

Elizabeth Pead
Mary Diamond Butts Award in Embroidery and Needlecraft

Liz Pead graduated from NBCCD in 1993 Fabric Surface Design and 1995 Textiles. In 2007 she completed her BFA at OCADU as the Medal Winner in Drawing and Painting. She makes Canadian landscape installations from just about anything she can get her hands on including recycled hockey gear, wool, thread, and sometimes oil paint. Liz likes to write about other artists. She has a
dirty little ink drawing habit. Liz plays ice hockey and has spent a lot of time in Iceland, playing hockey and being inspired by the landscape and artists that live there. In October 2013, she completed her Icelandic ‘Hattrick’; all three National Ice Hockey Arenas have her work in their collections. In May 2014, she went to Blönduós, Northern Iceland for a month-long residency at TextileSetur, researching traditional Icelandic materials, techniques and patterning.

Recent explorations use textile as extended paint, exploring landscapes through drawing with thread on knitted and woven metal substrates. In 2016, Pead attended workshops in Weaving Copper Wire with Sayward Johnson (from Ottawa) and Advanced Machine Knitting Techniques with Ursula Rautenbach (Heriot Watt University, Scottish School of Textiles; Galashiels, Scottish Borders). Her Toronto studio is at Dupont and Symington in the Junction.

www.lizpead.com 

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Louis Riel and the Church at Batch, 1885
Hand tufted wool into linen, backed with acrylic gel, 2014 200 cm x 500 cm x 50 cm

The Hills of Blonduós, Iceland
Hand tufted wool into linen, backed with acrylic gel, 2014 60 cm x 60 cm x 4cm

SLS21 New Scotland to Happy Valley, Ontario
Thread on 100 copper mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2016 12.5cm x 18.75 cm

SLS34 Galashiels to Stow, Scotland
Thread on 100 copper mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2016 12.5cm x 18.75cm

SLS57 Saskatchewan Fields
Thread on 100 brass mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 15cm x 15cm

SLS59 The Drive To Dornoch, Scotland
Thread on 100 brass mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 15cm x 15cm

SLS61 Thermal Stream, Reykjanes Iceland
Thread on 100 brass mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 15cm x 15cm

SLS66 Blaskógabyggð, Iceland
Thread on 100 brass mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 15cm x 27cm

SLS68 Owl's Head, The Beach At Alma New Brunswick
Thread on 80 copper mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 12.5cm x 18.75cm

SLS74 Peterhead, Old Deer, Scotland #3
Thread on 83 stainless steel mesh, machine and hand stitching, 2017 12.5cm x 18.75cm

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