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Anie Toole
HELEN FRANCES GREGOR AWARD

Weaving and natural dye are at the core of Anie Toole's transdisciplinary studio practice and extend into printmaking, clay, and sound explorations. Her use of colour and natural dyes is intuitive and contrasts with her cartesian, planned and calculated approach to weaving. Weaving and its systems of notations model translation, translanguaging and writing. Through materialization she manipulates language and its forms: spoken, printed, hand scribed. Failing to model the vibrations and the space of simultaneous translations, her studio research speculates dual spaces that accommodate two languages at once. In Toole's transdisciplinary studio practice, nothing stands on its own: she works in loops. Printmaking from her handwoven textiles extracts the meaning, shifts the focus on the trace of a message, as languages fold one into the other. Colour research and sampling develops her intuition as pigments cross over between mediums.

Anie Toole holds an MFA from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2021), a Fine Craft diploma in Constructed Textiles from Maison des métiers d'art de Québec (2018), and a BSc Honours in Mathematics from the University of Ottawa (2001). She exhibits across North America and was awarded residencies at La Bande Vidéo (Québec) and Penland School of Craft (North Carolina).

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Connecting Band
Wool spun in New Brunswick and PEI, natural dyes from plants grown in Kamouraska, QC: camomile, dyer’s cosmos, indigo, mugwort and weld; hand twisted reindeer hide from Jokkmokk. Handweaving on a floor loom, natural dyes. Reindeer fringe by Katarina Spik Skum, Sami artisan. 7.8 meters X 19 cm, 2022

Connecting Band (detail)
Wool spun in New Brunswick and PEI, natural dyes from plants grown in Kamouraska, QC: camomile, dyer’s cosmos, indigo, mugwort and weld; hand twisted reindeer hide from Jokkmokk. Handweaving on a floor loom, natural dyes. Reindeer fringe by Katarina Spik Skum, Sami artisan., 27.8 meters X 19 cm, 2022

Tissage A, Variation II
PIndigo pigment on St. Armand cotton and abaca paper, Handweaving on a digital Jacquard loom, cotton
101 X 76 cm, 2021

Tissage A, Variation II (detail)
Indigo pigment on St. Armand cotton and abaca paper, Handweaving on a digital Jacquard loom, cotton
101 X 76 cm, 2021

Tissage B, Variation IV
Red iron oxide and raw sienna on St. Armand cotton and abaca paper. Handweaving on a digital Jacquard loom, cotton and Seine cotton twine.
101 X 76 cm, 2021

Mornings at the Press
Monoprints and embosses from a daily on-site small loom handweaving of Seine cotton twine. Handmade inks from lake dyes (cochineal, brazilwood, chamomile, black walnut and myrobalan) and pigments (indigo and red ochre) on St. Armand abaca and cotton paper and Stonehenge cotton paper, brush dyed paper with madder and weld, indigo dipped paper, handmade indigo wax crayon and indigo watercolour paint. Installation, Dimensions variable, 2021

Frappologie (English, French and Spanish uppercase and lowercase keyboard keys on cube)
Linen, cotton, wood. Handweaving on a digital Jacquard loom, hand sewing and embroidery
2.5 X 2.5 X 2.5 cm per cube, Installation dimensions variable, 2021

I Don't Know, ce que je sais, February 24, 2021
Wool, cotton. Handweaving on a digital Jacquard loom, hand sewing and embroidery, natural dyes of brazilwood, osage orange and chestnut.
211 X 164 cm, 2021

A Pixel is a Thread, a Pattern a Cloth, a Textile a Memory
16 frame digital artwork shown on a traffic control message board that moves throughout the city of Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
30 X 56 Pixels, 2021

A Pixel is a Thread, a Pattern a Cloth, a Textile a Memory
16 frame digital artwork shown on a traffic control message board that moves throughout the city of Corner Brook. On view at Marble Mountain, Steady Brook, Newfoundland.
30 X 56 Pixels, 2021

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