Textiles
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Teghan Stadnyk, Text[iles], 2018,
Fabric and embroidery
The artwork focus is to highlight what it is to be a women today. While using textiles and embroidery to form text describing female empowerment. Thoughts are embroidered in cursive text and used to express a personal and complex understanding of the female experience. Womanly feelings, playful perceptions of the female role, as well as a tribute Stadnyk's mother who passed away, are all inspirational motives.
Ghada Amer is an artist who is also an inspiration. Amer rejects oppressive laws set in place to govern women's attitudes towards their bodies by repudiate first-wave feminist theory. The delicacy of needle and thread, adopt a tenderness that simple objectification ignores. By stating feminist theory in embroidery, the enmeshment becomes a lifestyle question meant to change the way we look at gender roles today.
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Artwork featured in "That's Enough" exhibit at Artscape Youngplace, April 2018.
A tribute to my Mother "Nurse Norma" who passed away.
Teghan Stadnyk, Text[iles], "Remember me" (2018)
"Remember me"
The inspiration for this text was from my Mothers last written words to me. Written inside a birthday card. I chose to include these words because my strongest female role model was my Mother. May she always be remembered.