Karin Millson


More information about Karin's work can be found on her website at www.karinmillson.com  and  on her archived blog for past creative endeavours www.i-sew[at]blogspot.com



RESUME

EDUCATION
City and Guilds, London, UK – Master-craftsman Qualification (2006), PhD in Geology (1984)

VISUAL ART EXHIBITS AND SHOWS

2018
Erotica Show, SSI, Saltspring Gallery, Canada
(Future shows – Joint show with Ilse Leader, SSI Artists Collective, July 2018: photography show Fernwood CafĂ© SSI, 2018-19: solo show Artspring Lobby SSI, 2019
2017
(SNNAP) Parallel Show, SSI,  Canada Viewers Choice 1st Prize
2017
Moth Migration Project, Albuquerque, USA
2014
Indigo, Epcor Window Gallery, Calgary, Canada
What’s on the Surface?, Atlantis Fine Framing and Studio, Calgary, Canada
2013
Pop Up Gallery, Atlantis Fine Framing and Studio, Calgary, Canada
2012
Group show, Atlantis Fine Framing and Studio, Calgary, Canada
Worked Up, Art Central, Calgary, Canada
Have work will travel, Resolution Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Curiosities, The Hive, Medicine Hat, Canada
2011
Second Life (In a virtual gallery at the University of Salford, UK)
Have work will travel, Contextural -Epcor Windows, Canada
Collaboration – ACAD Canada
ArtsPeak Solo show and Sale, Canmore, Canada
Framed on Fifth, Calgary, Canada
Canmore Hospital, Canada
2010
Printmakers’ Show and Sale, Canada
Show and Sale Contextural Gallery, Canada
Mountains or Mushrooms,  Epcor Windows,  Calgary, Canada
Out of Context, Marion Nicholl Gallery, Calgary Canada
Documentation, Resolution Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2008
Group Show – Redditch Needle Museum, UK
2007
Juried exhibition/competition Winner- Out of the Blue, UK
2004
Travelling Stitches – Travelling Tales Ontario, Canada
2003
Travelling Stitches – Travelling Tales Exeter, UK
2002
Omani British Arts exhibition at the Omani Society for Fne Art during Oman and Britain week, Oman
Travelling Stitches – Over the Rainbow, NEC, UK
2001
Travelling Stitches – Flat Pack and Back, Urchfont and  Harrogate, UK
Travelling Solo Exhibition Skies in Stitches , Netherlands UK
2000/2001
Travelling Stitches – Panels by Postcards, UK & The Netherlands

TEACHING/RESIDENCIES/FACILITATING
Teaching in schools:  Calgary and Saltspring Island middle and high schools: felting, shibori, legal graffiti
Facilitator:  Bringing internationally acclaimed artists to teach workshops and lecture in Calgary: Michael Brennand-Wood, Jason Pollen, Lisa Grey, Judith Dios, Yoshiko Wada, Lisa Klakulak
Studio teaching (to adults): Numerous courses in mixed media and machine embroidery, and menorship.
Summer Residencies at ACAD, Calgary

TALKS / PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Mahon Hall Saltspring Island Paper to Puppetry Shibori just doesn’t cover it
Powered by Pechakucha  “PechaKucha Kreatures “ http://vimeo.com/61565756
Embroidery in Oman – National Costume and Silver embroidery in Oman
Calgary Central Library for This is My City 2014: Six Minute Stories: tales of rebuilding
Presentations on numerous subjects via(past) leadership of SDA Alberta


AWARDS
2018  Canada Council for the Arts
2017  Saltspring Arts Council Grant
2017  (SNNAP) Parallel Show, SSI,  Canada Viewers Choice 1st Prize
2016  Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant
2007 Charles Henry Foyle Award for Stitched Textiles Bursary $4000

WORKS HELD
Private collections: Hungary, Austria, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Oman. 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Saltspring Arts Council, Painters Guild Saltspring Island, Validated Canada Council Artist & Canada Council Ad Hoc Group with Wendy Passmore Godfrey.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
An expatriate life during the past 20 years has provided multi-cultural experiences of life in Oman, Nigeria, The Netherlands. The United Kingdom, The USA and Canada.  Study of the textile practices and histories, that these countries have, has facilitated a wonderful, if atypical, professional development.  Mentorship in Oman was provided by a close-knit group of sculptors, photographers and fine artists.  New opportunities for professional development are presenting themselves as I take up permanent residence in Canada.

PUBLISHED WRITING
2013 “PechaKucha Kreatures “ http://vimeo.com/61565756
2012 Travelling Stitches. Destination Magazine Isssue 63 (June). Second Life (In a virtual gallery at the University of Salford)
2011 Have work will travel, Blurb Book http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2576352
2008 Workbox (vol 108)
2003 Sewing World (Sept). Workbox (p78)
2001 World of Embroidery (vol 52)
1994 Tribute to Oman (National Costume of Oman)

1993 Embroidery Magazine “A Palm garden”, Embroidery Magazine “A town called needle.”

BIO
Karin Millson holds a Ph. D. in micropalaeontology and a Master Craftsman Qualification from the City and Guilds of London. Once a scientist always a scientist.  She creates mixed media art that is predominantly textile-based. Her work marries her interest in the natural world with a fascination for innovative use of materials and design.
Her work has been exhibited and sold world-wide, with works held in Oman, Europe, North America and Africa.  She currently works between Canada, The United States and England.
Her Ph D investigated Ostracods of the Palaeogene of Australasia, her collection is housed in the British Museum of Natural History, London.

ARTIST STATEMENT 
I find my work centres itself on creating abstracted representations of subjects often from the living world.  I strive to have the viewer find meaning and pleasure in sculptures, installations and imagery through their own knowledge of the world and, if not, then stimulating their infinite imagination.

In developing this current work with Wendy Passmore Godfrey I am asking the audience to question our use of organisms through time, and especially to consider what our future role and responsibilities will be.  It is a pleasure to present scientific knowledge in an artistic design that can speak to the audience and lead it into the realm of the conscience.