Happy mid -summer to all of you.
And what a crazy heat wave too! Hope you are all keeping cool. I, myself spend my time preparing for our upcoming fiber festivities- MOKSHA – Fibre Libre. Badbad Grape (jim)and I would like to invite you all up to the Mile End from Tuesday the 28th of August to the 2nd of September. Especially festive-the Thursday night vernissage-5-8.
As an added event/promo/bonus we have been asked to present at the Makers Faire the Saturday prior to our exhibit. We look forward to showing a preview of the fibre fantasy, then getting down and dirty with a little yarnbombing-demo at the parc Olympic site.
The Galerie Mile End will be open tues-fri 12-6, sat-sun 12-5 -with the extended vernissage hours thursday until 8. We look forward to seeing you there.
Happy and creative ‘canicule’ to you all.
About Pan-oramic Fibre Arts
Pandora Hobby
Pandora’s Fibres
Artistic Biography-Fibres
Pandora Hobby is a fibre artist living and working in Montreal, Quebec. She studied at the Dawson New School (1988-90) examining various art techniques then turned her talents to cultural studies (1992-99) and education (2002-Present) for the duration of her formal training.
One day in the mid 80’s, Ms Hobby, then a high school student, had a daydream of her future while repairing a pair of her own worn out jeans. Ms. Hobby knew then that recycling clothes and modifying fibres/ unique textures would drive her work for the rest of her life. Years before, while living in British Columbia she had learned to weave, crochet and knit. By the age of 19 she was working on Montreal’s Mont-Royal avenue with its recycled clothing, ‘friperie’ boutiques as a raccomoder/ finisher.
After the birth of the artist’s first child she turned to the medium of fibre as art and hasn’t looked back. Her crocheted works vary between artistic and artisanal. Craft shows and workshops include Puces Pop, kid pop, the Rusty Plum/Madam Coeur, La Lumiere café workshop series, Geek out, Montreal Homelearners, & classes at Ariadne Knits. Her crochet classes revolve around free-form and recycled art themes and she has expanded into work-shopping felt techniques in collaboration with FiberAlley.
Since 2009 Ms. Hobby has concentrated on workshopping and writing through Feltunited (2009-present), Old skool craft (2010-present), Expozine (2010) and her blog https://artattackz.wordpress.com. Her first essay/zine on creative process hooked in was released 2010. Spring 2011 brought a fascination with public art and yarnbombing and Ms. Hobby later spoke on this subject at the Greasygoose symposium entitled scraps.
Pandora Hobby
Pandora fibres
Demarche artistique
Pandora Hobby est une artiste de fibres basée à Montréal, Québec. Elle a étudié à Dawson New School (1988-90) explorant différentes techniques artistiques, menant ensuite à des études culturelles (1992-99) et de l'éducation (2002-present).
Un jour, au milieu des années 80, Mme Hobby, etudiante au secondaire, s’est mise a rever de son avenir en reparant une paire de ses jeans usés. Mme Hobby savais a cet instant que le recyclage des vêtements, la modification des fibres et des textures uniques dominerait ses projets pour le reste de sa vie. Des années auparavant, alors qu'elle vivait en Colombie-Britannique, elle avait appris le tissage, le crochet et tricot. À l'âge de 19 ans, elle a travaillé a Montréal sur l’ avenue du Mont-Royal avec ses vêtements recyclés et ses boutiques «Friperie» en tant que raccomodeuse /finisseur.
Après la naissance de sa premiere enfant, elle se tourna vers le milieu de la fibre et n'a pas regardé en arrière. Ses œuvres au crochet varient entre l’artistique et l’artisanale. Des expositions d'artisanat et des ateliers comprennent Puces Pop, kid pop, leRusty Plum / Madame Coeur, La Lumière café série d'ateliers, Geek out, Homelearners Montréal, et les classes à Ariadne Knits. Ses classes crochet autour de thèmes d'art de forme libre et recyclés, et elle a augmenté dans les ateliers les techniques de feutrage en collaboration avec FiberAlley.
Depuis 2009 Mlle.Hobby s'est concentrée sur atelier et de l'écriture par le biais Feltunited (2009-présent), Old skool craft (2010-présent), Expozine (2010) et son blog ; https://artattackz.wordpress.com. Son premier essai / zine sur le processus créatif Hooked in est sorti en 2010. Printemps 2011 a apporté une fascination pour l'art public yarnbombing et Mlle.Hobby parla plus tard sur le sujet de scraps au symposium Greasygoose.
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