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
March 15 to May 15, 2015
Maderia Park, BC (Sunshine Coast)
August 25 to October 4, 2015
Place des Arts
Coquitlam, BC
April 29 to May 28, 2016
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
Current & Upcoming
Featured Artist: Thomas Roach, Stitched Textiles
Kolbe Times: Faith, Arts, Justice
Autumn/Winter 2015
Prayers of the Church Community Art Project
Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
Surface Design Association Blog:
Artful Conversations
Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver:
Artist interview about Purple Vestments for Lent
Thomas Roach
stitched textiles
MEDIA:
Surface Design Journal, Fall 2017
Exposure section
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.
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