Amanda McCavour’s thread drawings are created on a sewing machine, sewn into a fabric that then dissolves in water, leaving just thread. The intricate, detailed textile work flows from her interest in “the vulnerability of thread, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together.” (Above, detail from Living Room)
During an artist-in-residence program in Dawson City, Yukon, McCavour replicated this turn of the century steam pump, left at the side of one of the gold rush city’s main streets.
Installation view, from exhibition at Lonsdale Gallery
-From Fibre Quarterly
-Untitled figure, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
This piece is based on my old living room in my old apartment. I recreated many of the objects that existed in that space, chairs, side tables and other nick nacks out of thread and hung them from the ceiling so that they were layered on top of one another, mimicking the space in my old home. Each of the objects were created on a 1 to 1 scale. –Artist’s Website
Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist with a BFA from York University where she studied drawing and installation. Since graduating in 2007, she has participated in national and international exhibitions and has recently completed residencies at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio in Toronto and at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon.
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Amanda McCavour’s website, here
Categories: Artisans, Textile Art
Canadian Art Junkie 
this is the first i get a chance to take a good look at AM’s work.
i visited her website & scrolled through the pieces. i love the studies
with the hands & figures which seem to be working at the thread
themselves! it’s a direct translation of the artist herself. they also give
the feel of someone trying to peel off the layers time & age.
the suspended ones like ‘floating garden’ really play with the shadows
created. it looks like the shadows are in dance!
there’s no arts&crafts feel about them either, very much fine art.
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Hi Michelle – I’m not surprised you focused in on those studies, and (as usual) I love your descriptions. Thank you.
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Fantastic!
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Absolutely agree!
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Love this type of fibre art.
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Hi – always great to hear from you. Glad you enjoyed.
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These are fascinating… I would love to see them in the flesh!
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Yes, I’m with you there. It would be fabulous to see them in a studio or at exhibition.
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Amazing work so delicate and very unique. Love her work!
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She’s definitely unique, agreed.
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Reblogged this on bekahdu handmade and commented:
Wow, these are truly amazing!
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Thanks for the reblog.
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How do artists keep thinking up all these amazing ways to create such lovely things?! Now I want to know how she dissolves the fabric . . .
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Great question, but I still don’t know the answer. I browsed her web again, but I don’t know anything more. The fabric must be truly unique.
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I think that is one of the most fascinating talents I have ever seen.
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I know. Such a unique way to create.
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I have no idea how this is possible but it’s beautiful! Followed you here from lovely Nia.
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Glad you found us, and enjoyed the post!
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wow so light and like the soul of the items .. love them …want one
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True, they’re very easy to covet, aren’t they.
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🙂
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Beautiful!
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Thanks for taking the time to say so.
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Reblogged this on photographyofnia and commented:
“Dissolving Fabric” Amazing artist!
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Thanks for the re-blog.
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