Amanda McCavour manipulates thread and wire to create large-scale sculptural drawings unbound from a two-dimensional surface. The result is a dreamlike and immersive experience for visitors to walk through, around, and underneath.
Her latest exhibition is Wanderings and Traces , with installations at three Ontario locations: Cambridge Art Galleries and Idea Exchange, Queen’s Square, Idea Exchange, Hespeler, and Idea Exchange, Preston.
McCavour created a new work called Sunset Canopy (detail below) for the part of her exhibition at Preston.
The image at the top of the post (Pink Field, Blue Fog) shows McCavour’s abstracted field of flowers and hovering cloud. The large installation is comprised of thousands of embroidered pieces installed by single threads hanging from the ceiling.
A previous Art Junkie post with more detail on her process, below.
Amanda McCavour’s website, here.
Her Instagram, here.
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Looking at Amanda’s threat art reminded me of how Grinling Gibbons built his carvings from smaller component pieces, and the whole was much more than the sum of the parts.
Thank you so much for the introduction to Gibbons, fascinating. I had not heard of this artist but now that I’ve seen some of the work, I get what you mean. Great comment, appreciated.