Mixed Media
A Book From Seed and Soil
"A Book From Seed and Soil" is a handmade, linen book that explores the cycles of Linum usitatissimum (Flax) and our (human) relationships to the plant. The cycles examined are not just of life and death, but the cycles of knowledge, and... More
Essay
Learning Through the Body; Fostering Intellectual and Emotional Accessibility within Museums
"Since museums opened to the public they have maintained rules which influence how people orient themselves in the space. In many major institutions the bodily ways of understanding material culture have been very regimented. Additionally, and more... More
Essay
Unbecoming Practices: The Material Language of Undoing
This essay is the culmination of a year's research for my thesis. It explores textiles as a surrogate body which acts as a visual and tactile metaphor for the self. Supported by feminist and gender theories of unbecoming, undoing and queer... More
Work by
Avery Geboers
Criticism and Curation
“My curatorial practice centres around themes of self-making, knowledge sharing and communication within textiles. Most recently during my undergraduate thesis, I focused on the language and processes...” [More]