Studio: Textiles

Anna Xiaoyin Luo is a Chinese interdisciplinary fibre artist in Tkaronto (Toronto).  She is interested in the collaborative potential of craft and how it emerges as an antidote for crafting belongings in a world of flux and isolation. Her current works explore the role of materiality and tactility in contemporary art by reutilizing discarded fibre […]

“I grew up as a stranger to my own story, adopted and re-named, grafted into a new family tree. The discovery in adulthood of my Métis heritage was a revelation that set me on a path of discovery and my developing story as an Indigenous heritage woman and her quest for harmony with the natural […]

Khadija Aziz is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. A love for playfulness, patterns, collaboration and spontaneous art-making processes fuels her creativity. She investigates the making and transformation of patterns through the play of analogue and digital processes. Aziz creates installations, digital images, animations and Augmented Reality (AI) experiences by marrying slow textile-making techniques and tools […]

Clio Windust is a textile artist working primarily in printing and weaving. She is interested in the role textiles has played in the development of modern technologies and media arts, both in the realm of computers, with the Jacquard loom as a proto-computer, and with the craft of fabric transparencies, a part of early media […]

Olivia Mae Sinclair is a textile-book artist. Her intuitive and trauma-based practice is guided by sloppy craft and imperfection. She is addicted to infatuation and Redbull. She is a maker of books, love and other grotesque things. She has recently graduated from OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design program. She earned her […]

Moraa Stump is a Canadian, Kenyan artist and maker. Using textile techniques, Stump’s practice repurposes mixed medias and materials to make 2d images and soft sculptures. Stump’s work seeks to widen the scope of possibility and imagination when confronting the themes of race, physical space and safety. Having spent her formative years growing up in […]

Steph Cloutier is a francophone artist from Toronto, Canada. She received her BFA with Distinction in Sculpture and Installation, minoring in Material Arts and Design (Textiles) at OCAD University. She is a multidisciplinary artist driven by process, materiality and transformation. She is interested in the realms of architecture, urbanity and nature, the permanent and the […]

Juliana Scherzer is a textile artist working primarily in free-motion machine embroidery and quilted leaves. Her work explores the duality of the known and unknown roles of textiles in our everyday lives, as explored through the themes of biology, mending, community, and environmentalism. After graduating from Sheridan College in 2018 with a Bachelor of Craft […]