Bettina Matzkuhn

I have worked in the fibre medium for over 30 years with an emphasis on the vocabulary of hand embroidery and fabric collage. Many have used this language throughout human history to tell stories; I am part of this continuum. In the 1980s I animated and directed three award-winning films using textiles for the National Film Board of Canada and an interest in narrative continues to inform my practice.

In two, or more recently, three dimensions, I explore ideas around voyages that traverse internal and external geographies. Through the detail and materiality of embroidery I might evoke motion, possibility, memory, exaggeration, metaphor, absurdity, indecision. And, as with any voyage, there is always the implication of risk……

Events participated in

• 2016 Collaboration