Studio: Textiles

Sasha Shevchenko is a Ukrainian, Tkaronto/Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She is inspired by her experience as a Ukrainian person of diaspora, and her practice bridges sculpture, textile, archaeology and intimate ethnography. Combining contemporary and ancient story-telling methods, Shevchenko creates propositional spaces where tradition can whimsically extend into cultural futures. Her work has been exhibited at the […]

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 […]

Akash Inbakumar’s practice, based in Tkaronto / Toronto, explores the queering of the human body concerning material and craft practices. They conceive material-kin through partnerships with multiple mediums, tools and processes (material-kinship). These kin become symbols of the symbiotic relationships built during their conception and gateways to Inbakumar’s futuristic world: a future where craft objects […]

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 […]