Eleanor Hannan

I am a visual artist working in machine embroidery. The Small Excursions are based on my painterly desire to mess around with colour and form as organic abstractions against a blank surface. Because the embroidered white surface must be worked up stitch by stitch it is possible to dwell on the feel of surface disruption (such as direction changes, displacement, the action of thread stumbling repeatedly over thread) caused by the spreading of the colour and the growth into being of the forms. These are translations to thread the act of embroidery becoming my interpreter of the language of paint. They are meant to be viewed in groups.

Excursion # 1

Excursion # 1
machine embroidery on cotton

Excursion # 6

Excursion # 6
machine embroidery

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The show is up

The show is now installed at Crafts Council Of BC and opens Thursday evening June 18.
There are some interesting aspects of the installation: for example I am including a ball of spun "off cuts" that was created using all the threads cut from the Excursions while they were being made.

I will upload photos of the opening.
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Monday, June 1, 2009

Excursion # 11


June 1,
I am posting one of my favourite excursions, #11. Although the cloth became quite pulled (see note) during the making of this one I enjoyed creating the spatial depth between the smaller floating forms and the larger one. I loved evolving the very pale colours surrounding the forms.
(In the embroidery process the cloth can become quite deformed as it pulls with the intensity of the layering of the thread.)
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