Weaver Carl Stewart’s wholecloth brings together a series of handwoven cloths made from found, gifted, and inherited textiles and clothing as well as materials not traditionally used in handwoven textiles including fishing nets, metal foil and cassette tape.
wholecloth references early Canadian textiles from Prince Edward Island, Scottish cloutie and Acadian catalogne (rag weaving) and torsion (twisted yarn weaving) as well as Japanese zanshi-‐ori (left-‐over thread weaving) and saki-‐ori (rag weaving), all textile traditions that utilize recycled materials.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Carl Stewart (he/him) is a weaver and teacher living and working in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
Stewart’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions across Canada and in the United States including Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, ON; The Arbor Gallery, Vankleek Hill, ON; John M. Parrott Art Gallery, Belleville, ON; Schmidt Art Centre, Belleville, IL; and Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS.
He has participated in group exhibitions across Canada and in the United States including Masson Gallery, Ottawa, ON; Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON; Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC; Little Berlin Collective, Philadelphia, PA; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON; and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Stewart was a 2020 recipient of a Study Collection Scholarship from the Marshfield School of Weaving in Marshfield, VT. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Cultural Commentary and Social Change Grant from the Fiber Art Network for his project clò mòr. Also in 2019, he was a visiting artist in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
Stewart’s work is in the collections of the Ottawa Art Gallery, the City of Ottawa, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.