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Bruneau, Carol, 1956-
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Swim, Laurie.
Textile artists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quiltmakers -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quilts -- Nova Scotia -- Pictorial works.
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Bruneau, Carol, 1956-
Swim, Laurie.
Textile artists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quiltmakers -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quilts -- Nova Scotia -- Pictorial works.
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No ordinary magic : the
art
of
Laurie
Swim
/ Carol Bruneau.
by
Bruneau, Carol, 1956-
Goose Lane Editions, 2023.
Call #:
746.46092 S977b
Subjects
Swim
,
Laurie
.
Textile artists -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quiltmakers -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.
Quilts -- Nova Scotia -- Pictorial works.
ISBN:
9781773103457 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Art
of
Laurie
Swim
Description:
101 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm. x 26 cm.
Summary:
"
Laurie
Swim
has worked as a fabric artist and quilter for more than forty years. Throughout her career, she has been among the most capable and passionate defenders of textile
art
. In her chosen
art
form,
Swim
captures the essence of the seacoast. For the ocean, she works with silk, pulling stitches until they pucker to create gentle ripples. For vegetation and seaweed, she combines quilting, embroidery, painting, dyeing, and other seemingly opposing techniques. As award-winning writer Carol Bruneau suggests in No Ordinary Magic, it's not only
Swim
's unconventional use of materials that is distinctive, it's her gift for narrative that makes her
art
both resonant and endlessly intriguing. In this retrospective volume, Bruneau explores
Swim
's history, her defiance of convention, and her reinvention of quilts as paintings-made-of-fabric. The result is a profound exploration of
Swim
's sometimes monumental yet astonishingly intimate work."
Carol Bruneau is the award-winning author of nine books. Her reviews, essays, and articles have appeared across Canada, and she has previously taught courses on writing for the arts at the Nova Scotia College of
Art
and Design. She lives in Halifax, NS.
Laurie
Swim
has worked as an artist for forty years, developing unique and innovative treatments to fashion her imagery in textiles with fabric and thread. She is the author of five books, including The Joy of Quilting (with an introduction by Alex Colville), Quilting, Rags to Riches: The Quilt as
Art
(with an introduction by Mary Pratt), and a children's book entitled Hope and Survival on the Halifax Explosion. Swims's works grace many private and public collections, including the
Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia
Art
Bank, Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council, the City of Toronto
Art
Collection, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
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Biographies.
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