Spindle Whorl
Language: English
Published by Black Dog Publishing March 2017, 2017
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- Title
- Spindle Whorl
- Author
- Susan Point
- Publisher
- Black Dog Publishing March 2017
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1911164260
- ISBN 13
- 9781911164265
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- First Nations
The "spindle whorl" refers to a carved, circular plate attached to the end of a wooden spindle that acts to lend weight during the wool spinning process. In Coast Salish tradition spindle whorls are carved with powerful, symmetrical designs which blur and merge as the spindle turns.
In Point's work, the spindle whorl is frequently used to make two-dimensional work, such as paper screen prints, in addition to being used with the traditional three-dimensional mediums of glass, wood carving, rawhide drums and wool. Due to her mixed-media use of the spindle whorl, Point is widely credited with introducing the tool into modern art.
Point's work is discussed in the context of Canadian modern art in a Foreword by Kathleen S Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. The project is overseen by editors Grant Arnold and Ian Thom. Arnold is currently Curator of British Columbian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where, over the past 30 years, he has organized more than 60 exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art from British Columbia. Thom is a Senior Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery. In 2009 he was awarded the Order of Canada for his work in advocating for Indigenous artists.
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"It can be easy to overlook the Indigenous history under your feet in the urban settings of Vancouver and Seattle, but Point’s work highlights both ongoing Indigenous presence—through the very appearance of her work—and past practices that were driven out by colonial settler industrialization. [...] Point’s work asserts local history referenced through location, iconography and media. Four Corners (2000) at North Seattle Community College features four faces representing the diversity of the college student body. All the faces are executed in terra cotta to evoke red clay, a pigment which was historically used and highly valued by local First Nations for ceremonial adornment—and which can be found just three blocks away from the college, at Licton Springs. In this piece, the red faces might equate the modern pursuit of knowledge through institutionalized learning with traditional Indigenous knowledge systems that have existed in this territory for centuries."
From 'Primacy and Perspective' by Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse in Susan Point: Spindle Whorl
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