WORKSHOPS/TALKS: (available for Zoom too!)

Spirit, Place, Stitch, and Story: Join textile artist Thomas Roach on an imaginative retelling of his journey through his own textile-based work over the last twenty years. Discover the importance of place to his work – both the exploration of new places, and the appreciation of those places closer to home. By the careful placement of colour, line and stitch his work aims to evoke the spirit of those places. His journey has been enriched by others along the way with teaching and community art projects. This illustrated talk will include examples of his work from a variety of stages and contexts of his career from deeply personal pieces, to church vestments, to collaborative projects.
Cloth and Connection: While a quilt is typically defined as three layers stitched together, I believe that the result is vastly more than the simple sum of the component materials. There are a myriad of layers of meaning, memory and connection that at first don’t seem visible, but are often transmitted anyway by the visual and tactile experience. Such is the power of cloth. As quilters, weavers, fibre artists and lovers of textile we know this. Imagine opening that experience up to a community to (re)discover together. Join Vancouver textile artist Thomas Roach to hear about his experience leading large textile based community projects and how that work has changed his approach to his personal textile artmaking practice.

Please contact the artist for further information about booking for your group.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

Full Circle

10th Anniversary Exhibition

FibreWorks Gallery, Maderia Park, BC

July 29 to September 10, 2017

(in)finite: spiritual conversations in cloth

Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC

May 25 to June 4, 2017

mended

Surface Design Association - BC Member Exhibition

Il Museo at the Italian Cultural Centre

Vancouver, BC

March 15 to May 15, 2015

Fibre Works Gallery

Maderia Park, BC (Sunshine Coast)

August 25 to October 4, 2015

Place des Arts

Coquitlam, BC

April 29 to May 28, 2016

Edge of the Forest

Surface Design Association - Canada Member Exhibition

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts

March 1 to 30, 2015

Art Square Gallery, Toronto, ON

April 20 to May 4, 2015

John M. Parrot Gallery, Belleville, ON

May to July 2015

Fibre Conference @ Gros Morne National Park, Nfld

August – October 2015

     Fish Creek Community Library, Calgary, AB
          January 11 – 30, 2016
     Coast Collective Arts Centre, Colwood, BC
          March 23 – April 3, 2016
FibreWorks Gallery, Maderia Park, BC
           July 9 – August 21, 2016

Common Threads Indigo Quilts

and

Prayers of the Church Community Art Project

Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver

Permanent Installations