Craft Awards

Elycia SFA
Helen Frances Gregor Award

Elycia SFA is a textile artist based in Toronto. Her work explores personal narrative and the de/reconstruction of memory, nostalgia, and loss, by portraying these concepts in the form of handwoven cloth. She attended OCADU for Material Art and Design: Fibre, and graduated in 2015. Elycia was accepted into Harbourfront Centre’s Artist-In-Residence program and awarded a scholarship in 2016.

Using weaving to fabricate images of locations and objects in transition over time, the textile becomes a material archive of representing memory within a changing landscape, re-making and distorting the image within the woven cloth. In recent works, she has thematically explored the preservation and deconstruction of memory, with a focused interest in domestic dwellings and the objects that inhabit them. While considering weaving as a tool for image making, she incorporates woven inlay and embroidery which allow her to draw with thread and create representational imagery within the body of the cloth.

www.elyciasfa.com

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Test of time
Handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017 12.5 x 8.25

Lost Mail
Handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017 30.5 x 10 x 6.5 (airplane), 14 x 14 x 9 (crumpled paper), 17.5 x 9 x 6.5 (paper boat)

Lost Mail (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017 17.5 x 9 x 6.5 (paper boat)

52.610604, -106.986990
handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016 58.5 x 12.5

Correspondence 2/2
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017 20.5 x 25.5 (paper), 7.5 x 11.5 (photo)

Air Mail
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016 23 x 11.5 (air mail envelope), 23 x 11.5 (security envelope)

Air Mail (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016 23 x 11.5 (security envelope)

Correspondence 1/2 (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017 20.5 x 25.5 (paper)

Video Stills
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread and linen wrapped steel inlay, 2017 35.5 x 82.5

Video Stills (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread and linen wrapped steel inlay, 2017 35.5 x 82.5

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