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Danish Modern: Suzanne Swannie Textil

Suzanne Swannie Imaginary Landscapes
Suzanne Swannie Imaginary Landscapes

Imaginary Landscapes Nos. 1-4 1980
Lurex, linen, silk, gold, 4.5 x 9.5 cm
Collection, Mount Saint Vincent University
Purchase, 1980
18 Oct 2008 – 23 Nov 2008

Suzanne Swannie is a Halifax-based designer and weaver who creates functional textiles, tapestries and large architectural installations for private and public environments. She also weaves pictorial tapestries and is known for unique fabric constructions such as the gallery installation Repassage. Both the woven works and the constructions display the “Danish Modern” principle of repetition of modular units as a means of generating surfaces and structures with a typical emphasis on rich colour harmonies.

Swannie’s integrated sensibility—the legacy of her Scandinavian training—allows her to move adroitly between industry, craft and the art world, gaining from each, apologizing to none. The retrospective selection includes tapestry works from the 1970s; pieced and appliqueed wall textiles created in collaboration with the Mi’kmaq women of Eskasoni Reserve (1977-1980); production household textiles (1980s); the creased-silk installation Repassage (1986); subsequent tapestry carpets and their paper studies (1990s, 2000s); and the major figurative tapestry triptych completed in 2007.

The exhibition catalogue contains essays by Sheila Stevenson, Halifax, and Rachel Gotlieb, Toronto and Ron Shuebrooke, Guelph. Support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture & Heritage is gratefully acknowledged.

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Catalogue essay by Rachel Gotlieb

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Exhibition Images
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Aura Aurora 2008Aura/Aurora 2008Aura/Aurora 2008Aura/Aurora 2008Aura/Aurora 2008
Aura/Aurora 2008Suzanne Swannie Cosmic Woman (detail)Suzanne Swannie Household Fabrics (Profile)Suzanne Swannie Igneous II TriptychSuzanne Swannie Installation View
Suzanne Swannie Installation ViewSuzanne Swannie Installation ViewSuzanne Swannie Installation ViewSuzanne Swannie Installation ViewSuzanne Swannie Installation View
Suzanne Swannie Installation ViewSuzanne Swannie Pink Moods (detail)Suzanne Swannie Repassage (detail)Suzanne Swannie Repassage detail 2Suzanne Swannie Triptych for Micah
Suzanne Swannie Triptych for Micah detail 2Suzanne Swannie Triptych for Micah detail 3Triptych for Michah detail 1   


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