More information about Karin's work can be found on her website at www.karinmillson.com and on her archived blog for past creative endeavours www.i-sew[at]blogspot.com
RESUME
EDUCATION
City
and Guilds, London, UK – Master-craftsman Qualification (2006), PhD in Geology
(1984)
VISUAL
ART EXHIBITS AND SHOWS
2018
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Erotica Show,
SSI, Saltspring Gallery, Canada
(Future shows – Joint show with Ilse Leader,
SSI Artists Collective, July 2018: photography show Fernwood Café SSI,
2018-19: solo show Artspring Lobby SSI, 2019
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2017
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(SNNAP)
Parallel Show, SSI, Canada Viewers Choice 1st
Prize
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2017
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Moth Migration
Project, Albuquerque, USA
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2014
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Indigo, Epcor Window Gallery,
Calgary, Canada
What’s on the
Surface?,
Atlantis Fine Framing and Studio, Calgary, Canada
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2013
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Pop Up Gallery, Atlantis Fine Framing and
Studio, Calgary, Canada
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2012
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Group show, Atlantis Fine Framing and
Studio, Calgary, Canada
Worked Up, Art Central, Calgary, Canada
Have work will
travel,
Resolution Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Curiosities,
The Hive, Medicine Hat, Canada
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2011
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Second
Life (In a virtual gallery at the University of Salford, UK)
Have work will
travel,
Contextural -Epcor Windows, Canada
Collaboration – ACAD Canada
ArtsPeak Solo show and Sale, Canmore, Canada
Framed on Fifth, Calgary, Canada
Canmore Hospital, Canada
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2010
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Printmakers’ Show and Sale, Canada
Show and Sale Contextural Gallery, Canada
Mountains or
Mushrooms, Epcor Windows, Calgary, Canada
Out of Context, Marion Nicholl Gallery,
Calgary Canada
Documentation, Resolution Gallery,
Calgary, Canada
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2008
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Group Show – Redditch Needle Museum, UK
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2007
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Juried exhibition/competition Winner- Out of the Blue, UK
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2004
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Travelling
Stitches – Travelling Tales Ontario, Canada
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2003
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Travelling
Stitches – Travelling Tales Exeter, UK
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2002
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Omani British
Arts exhibition
at the Omani Society for Fne Art during Oman and Britain week, Oman
Travelling
Stitches – Over the Rainbow, NEC, UK
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2001
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Travelling
Stitches – Flat Pack and Back, Urchfont and
Harrogate, UK
Travelling Solo Exhibition Skies in Stitches , Netherlands UK
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2000/2001
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Travelling
Stitches – Panels by Postcards, UK & The Netherlands
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TEACHING/RESIDENCIES/FACILITATING
Teaching in schools: Calgary and Saltspring Island middle and high schools:
felting, shibori, legal graffiti
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Facilitator:
Bringing internationally acclaimed artists to teach workshops and
lecture in Calgary: Michael Brennand-Wood, Jason Pollen, Lisa Grey, Judith
Dios, Yoshiko Wada, Lisa Klakulak
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Studio teaching (to adults): Numerous courses in mixed
media and machine embroidery, and menorship.
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Summer Residencies at ACAD, Calgary
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TALKS / PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Mahon Hall Saltspring Island Paper to Puppetry Shibori just doesn’t cover it
Powered by Pechakucha “PechaKucha Kreatures “ http://vimeo.com/61565756
Embroidery in Oman – National
Costume and Silver embroidery in Oman
Calgary Central
Library for This is My City 2014: Six Minute Stories: tales of
rebuilding
Presentations on numerous subjects via(past) leadership of SDA
Alberta
AWARDS
2018
Canada Council for the Arts
2017
Saltspring Arts Council Grant
2017 (SNNAP) Parallel Show, SSI,
Canada Viewers Choice 1st
Prize
2016
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant
2007 Charles Henry Foyle Award for Stitched Textiles
Bursary $4000
WORKS HELD
Private collections:
Hungary, Austria, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Oman.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Saltspring Arts Council, Painters Guild Saltspring Island, Validated
Canada Council Artist & Canada Council Ad Hoc Group with Wendy Passmore
Godfrey.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
An expatriate life during the past 20 years has
provided multi-cultural experiences of life in Oman, Nigeria, The Netherlands.
The United Kingdom, The USA and Canada.
Study of the textile practices and histories, that these countries have,
has facilitated a wonderful, if atypical, professional development. Mentorship in Oman was provided by a
close-knit group of sculptors, photographers and fine artists. New opportunities for professional
development are presenting themselves as I take up permanent residence in
Canada.
PUBLISHED WRITING
2013 “PechaKucha Kreatures “ http://vimeo.com/61565756
2012 Travelling Stitches. Destination
Magazine Isssue 63 (June). Second Life (In a virtual gallery at the University
of Salford)
2008 Workbox (vol 108)
2003 Sewing World (Sept). Workbox (p78)
2001 World of Embroidery (vol
52)
1994 Tribute to Oman (National
Costume of Oman)
1993 Embroidery Magazine “A
Palm garden”, Embroidery Magazine “A town called needle.”
BIO
Karin Millson holds a Ph. D. in micropalaeontology and a Master Craftsman Qualification from the City and Guilds of London. Once a scientist always a scientist. She creates mixed media art that is predominantly textile-based. Her work marries her interest in the natural world with a fascination for innovative use of materials and design.
Her work has been exhibited and sold world-wide, with works held in Oman, Europe, North America and Africa. She currently works between Canada, The United States and England.
Her Ph D investigated Ostracods of the Palaeogene of Australasia, her collection is housed in the British Museum of Natural History, London.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I find my work centres itself on creating abstracted representations of subjects often from the living world. I strive to have the viewer find meaning and pleasure in sculptures, installations and imagery through their own knowledge of the world and, if not, then stimulating their infinite imagination.
In developing this current work with Wendy Passmore Godfrey I am asking the audience to question our use of organisms through time, and especially to consider what our future role and responsibilities will be. It is a pleasure to present scientific knowledge in an artistic design that can speak to the audience and lead it into the realm of the conscience.
