Making Methods

The works in Making Methods focus on concepts of repetition, detail, and labour as a means of production. Arising in an era when rapid digital and non-physical experiences are commonplace, each artist’s engagement with materiality highlights a potential modernization of craft-based practices and as a result, an increased focus on hand-rendered art. Through the juxtaposition of these unique artistic processes, chance, memory, experimentation, and a wide range of references from popular cultural coalesce in inherently transformative and unpredictable ways.

Making Methods was curated by Linda Jansma and originated at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, in 2013, travelling to the Judith & Normal Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia in 2014. Curatorial support for the JNAAG exhibition was provided by Darryn Doull.

A 72-page catalogue accompanied the exhibition, featuring colour photography and essays by Linda Jansma and Darryn Doull.