ABSTRACT
Needling the System: the Textile Art of Colette
Whiten, Barbara Todd and Ann Newdigate
Michelle Roycroft
1996
This thesis examines contemporary Canadian textile art by
three women: Ann Newdigate, Barbara Todd and Colette Whiten who, through their respective
mediums of tapestry, quilting, and embroidery, challenge existing systems of meaning
through a strategic critique of dominant cultural ideologies. Simultaneous to this
discussion it seeks to examine how traditional and institutional structures have
contributed to the devaluation of textiles, while at the same time considering the
possibility textiles provide for an intervention into those systems.
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