Textiles

Four Corners, Four Angels, Ten Stones, Ten Veils

Using textiles, embroidery patterns and knitting as text, these pieces tell stories about birth, death, exile, diaspora, motherhood and the creation of personal rituals to recover from ancestral trauma, colonial violence, patriarchal narratives and... More

Video

Nani Nani

The seated figure is entering into a meditative trance state through the knitting process itself. Through the repetitive tying of knots, the figure drops deeply into herself. The knitting itself is simultaneously an act of labour and meditation. ... More

Photography

We Are Here Now

A series of digital photographs of performative gestures/ self portraits featuring ritual textiles and inherited textiles from my matrilineal line from the Sephardic Diaspora in relationship with various sites and waterways in T'Karanto.

Work by

Julie Gladstone

Embroidery, Knitting, Stitching, Singing, Video, Photography, Performance

“Through the interdisciplinary combination of knitting, embroidery, walking, relationship building with rivers, singing, dreaming, performance and video editing, this work images into being...” [More]

Artwork Collection

Four Corners, Four Angels, Ten Stones, Ten Veils

MFA Thesis exhibition for IAMD program

Four Corners, Four Angels, Ten Stones, Ten Veils

Using textiles, embroidery patterns and knitting as text, these pieces tell stories about birth, death, exile, diaspora, motherhood and the creation of personal rituals to recover from ancestral trauma, colonial violence, patriarchal narratives and... More

Nani Nani

The seated figure is entering into a meditative trance state through the knitting process itself. Through the repetitive tying of knots, the figure drops deeply into herself. The knitting itself is simultaneously an act of labour and meditation. ... More

We Are Here Now

A series of digital photographs of performative gestures/ self portraits featuring ritual textiles and inherited textiles from my matrilineal line from the Sephardic Diaspora in relationship with various sites and waterways in T'Karanto.

Work by

Julie Gladstone

“Through the interdisciplinary combination of knitting, embroidery, walking, relationship building with rivers, singing, dreaming, performance and video editing, this work images into being...” [More]