Reception: Refocus on Fibre Art & Glimpses of St. Andrews 👩‍🎨

Reception at Sunbury Shores Art and Nature Centre in St. Andrews Friday, May 6, 5pm – 7pm, to open two exhibits, Fibre Art Network: Refocus on Fibre Art and Dawn Steeves: Glimpses of Saint Andrews.

Fibre Art Network: Refocus on Fibre Art

Through these challenging times and search for higher meaning in a post-lockdown world, these artists put their energies into exploring new possibilities in their respective fibre art practices and created works beyond the utilitarian. In their effort to integrate non-traditional materials into their rugs, quilts, felts and sculptures, they attempt to communicate dreams, movement, and colour to deal with the reality of our lives. In some ways, these fibre artists express this through the search for beauty in nature and comfort in textured forms.

Dawn Steeves: Glimpses of Saint Andrews

In this collection of oil and ink on paper, wood, and canvas, Dawn Steeves presents impressions of Kingsbrae Gardens and Salty Towers. She created these works during a residency at Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (KIRA) in September of 2021. 

“This work is a series of snippets or partial scenes which combine to create a visual adventure. I strive to create an experience for the viewer which they can explore. I am interested in creating mood using a particular palette and combination of colour which is not quite real, tending to lean to the warm side, reminiscent of old colour photographs, giving a feeling of nostalgia. The subjects in my work are often truncated or extreme closeups, scenes not quite filled in, which emulates the way memories sometimes create an incomplete picture of the past, or the way dreams provide only a partial view of a place or thing.” – Dawn Steeves