Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6–8 p.m.
Meet the Artists: Saturday, February 7, 2–3 p.m.
Tour for Farsi Speakers: Saturday, February 21, 3 p.m.

Interlace brings together artists whose primary medium is fabric, thread, and wool. Across diverse practices, the exhibition examines moments of connection and disconnection, the physicality of working with fibre, and the ways making links us to history, memory, and care.

Mallory Donen explores the intersection of digital technology and traditional craft, using cross-stitch to bridge threads and pixels. Drawing on generational knowledge, she reclaims slow making as resistance. Inspired by computer glitches, her work embraces imperfection, inviting collaboration between artist and machine.

Eric Goldstein employs unconventional materials—coloured fibres, metal foils, and glass tile—to transform canvas into tactile, poetic narratives. His works pulse with kinetic energy, inviting viewers into emotional landscapes where visual storytelling meets material presence.

Reggie Harold’s work centres on fibre as both material and method. Using thread, sinew, and hand-based techniques, she explores relationships between making, memory, and cultural continuity, drawn to processes that require time, repetition, and physical engagement, where the body becomes an active participant.

Haley Hunt-Brondwin’s work explores visibility through a tension between directness and ambiguity—a conversation between the urge to reveal and the instinct to withhold.

Emily Kirsch’s Blob tapestries emerge from playful yet purposeful exploration. Random colours, shapes, and objects become acrylic pours, translated into fuzzy, tactile rugs. The blobs shift between character, entity, and landscape—both monolithic and microscopic—inviting touch as familiar, welcoming forms.

Working with vintage and natural textiles, Medwyn McConachy creates slow, contemplative works shaped by botanical imprints. Plants are bundled and steamed into cloth, their forms and pigments revealed through time and chance. Her Moon Circles extend this dialogue into lunar rhythm—stitched meditations on season, subtle change, and belonging within the natural world.

Lorna Moffat’s series HOME is a collage of lived experience—structures layered and woven from memory and love. Nests formed from cast-off wonders—a strand of twine, a fallen feather—symbolize making something extraordinary from the ordinary. As a mother and maker, she finds meaning in gathering and fortifying, one stitch at a time.

Helena Wadsley’s practice spans textiles, video, and paper, weaving together themes of wombs, water, and home through the lens of care. Using repurposed fabrics, local wool, and found books, her work merges personal narrative with the histories embedded in materials. Through slow, meditative processes, she invites reflection on connection, belonging, and the vital act of care.

About the Artists:

Mallory Donen is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Fraser Valley and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba. Donen received two Canada Council for the Arts grants (2021–2022) and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including in the United States.

Eric Goldstein is a Vancouver-based contemporary artist and multi-award-winning Director of Photography, with over 40 years of experience and a recipient of the Eastman Award for Excellence in Cinematography. He holds an MFA in Film and Video from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where he first honed his skills as a fine artist. His works have received multiple awards and been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, Whistler, and Vancouver, with sales internationally.

Reggie Harrold is a contemporary Indigenous artist from the Fort Nelson First Nation, based in Vancouver. Drawing on fashion and traditional Indigenous techniques, she creates sculptural and wearable fibre works that foreground material as cultural memory. Holding an MFA from UBC (2023), Harrold developed hand-worked sinew pieces exploring tension, repetition, and durability. Her work has been exhibited at the Belkin Art Gallery and Museum of Vancouver, and supported through residencies at the Banff Centre, contributing to contemporary conversations on Indigenous fibre practices.

Haley Hunt-Brondwin (she/her) has an interdisciplinary practice primarily focused on painting and tapestry. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Emily Carr University. Haley's visual artwork is primarily abstract and explores the qualities of human relationships and our phenomenological and physiological relationship to landscape, both internal and external. She is interested in what is revealed amongst and within points of connection and disconnection – always in pursuit of the balance between tension and harmony.

Emily Kirsch is a trans-disciplinary emerging artist based in Victoria, BC. Kirsch graduated in spring 2022 with two concurrent degrees, a BA in History and a BFA in Visual Arts with honours from the University of Victoria. She has worked for artists such as Mowry Baden, Nancy Rubins, and Germaine Koh. Kirsch shares a studio in the Rockslide Deco building downtown Victoria. She currently works as an artist, artist's assistant, and as a skatepark builder across Canada and has just recently returned from Uganda, volunteering to build a skatepark in Kiteezi. Kirsch is best known for her vibrant, large-scale mounted photographs and tapestries. Her art has been shown in West Vancouver, Victoria, Squamish, North Vancouver, and Victoria.

Medwyn McConachy is a queer settler artist based on Salt Spring Island, working with textiles, botanical printing, and slow stitching. As a founding member of the Gestare Art Collective (2011–2021), she co-developed feminist, arts-based approaches to connection and healing. Formal studies in fine art led her toward textiles, botanical printing, and slow stitching. Rooted in handcrafted traditions and ecological practice, her work explores relationship, ritual, and place.

Scottish-born Lorna Moffat is a textile artist whose vibrant collaged and stitched works animate space with colour, texture, and story. Inspired by people, place, and nature, her soft sculptures and pillows blend craft and art. A Glasgow School of Art graduate, her work is sold internationally and created from her North Vancouver studio.

Helena Wadsley works with textiles, drawing, and video, integrating craft techniques into contemporary visual art. A recipient of BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants, she has completed residencies in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Yukon, and exhibited internationally across Europe, Australia, the UK, and Canada. Her series Words Matter was shown at the Gibsons Public Art Gallery (2025) and travels to the Smithers Art Gallery in 2026. Wadsley holds an MFA from the University of Saskatchewan and teaches at Langara College and ECUAD.