Kaleidoscope

Kate Miller

May 18–June 15, 2022

Including and continuing work from She Makes Bedcoverings—Miller’s past exhibit of four large-scale quilts made from discarded clothing—Kaleidoscope is the observation of beautiful forms made in patchwork. Miller transforms ordinary clothing by manipulating traditional patchwork patterns via the slow labour of hand sewing. All this is done in the context of the artist’s practice of homemaking. 

The Artist Talk for Kate Miller is June 13th at 6pm in the gallery.


About the Artist

Kate Miller is a homemaker who reimagines the home as a place which cultivates human flourishing for the sake of the world, rejecting the idea of home as a separate sphere. Through slow textile and fibre handiwork, she practices and teaches making and mending as a way to love and to serve others from this place. She Makes Bedcoverings is four large-scale quilts made from her family’s discarded clothing, entirely by hand. From using mass-produced children’s clothing to her own wedding dress, and employing different hand-quilting techniques, the quilts challenge the way that material resources, industrialized fashion, and craft knowledge are valued. Her study of Amish quiltmaking and connoisseurship aims to reconcile the false dichotomy of art and craft, recovering a theological vision of the arts rooted in gratuity, vocation, and wisdom.