- Scrolls: October 20, 2022 – January 17, 2023
- Pojagi: January 19, 2023 – April 18, 2023
- Boro: April 19, 2023 – July 18, 2023
- Colour: July 20, 2023 – October 17, 2023
In March of 2020, members of the North Shore Needle Arts Guild were locked down along with the rest of the province. The result was the cancellation of their in-person meetings and the abrupt absence of the sharing environment they previously had enjoyed.
Their members are diverse in their knowledge base, professional backgrounds and needlework techniques but not as skilled with the technology required to be able to meet virtually. Through the sharing by those members with technical knowledge, all members learned how to meet via Zoom. This technology allowed for the continuation of learning, inspiring each other and sharing the love of the art form that had brought them together in the first place.
As the pandemic continued to isolate the most vulnerable, North Shore Needle Arts Guild pulled together and pulled through, exploring and sharing their ideas on 4 different subjects over the course of 2 years.
This exhibition shows the results of one of those subjects – Colours: Members of North Shore Needle Arts Guild have explored the subjective nature of colour, the context and time of colour symbolism and how colour is seen and used by artists. Members have been exposed to colour theory and some of the guidelines surrounding the use of colour through traditional colour wheels and encouraged to create colour studies of their own using their choice of stitch techniques. And they have created art pieces bases on their individual knowledge of colour and stitch.
“Pull Together- Pull Through” is made up of 4 exhibitions each spanning 4 months. Each rendition of the theme will have its own sub-theme, the last part of this exhibition, “Colour” is on display from July 20 to October 17, 2023.