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Christi York combines traditional weaving methods with a contemporary approach. She harvests and processes all of her own natural materials around Vancouver Island, BC - (traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations peoples).

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With a background in both graphic and jewelry design, York’s work naturally flows towards mixed media, with botanical material and imagery always front and centre.

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Inspired by the overwhelming complexity of plant life on earth, she invites people to pause and re-consider the seemingly humble nature of plant material.

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"Foraging for materials within the seasons, my work is quite literally tied to the cycle of the natural world. Basketmaking has a communal history in nearly every culture on the planet. When I weave, I feel linked to this collective history of civilization; a time when we had respect and a deep generational knowledge about the self sustaining systems of the earth."

Recent Exhibitions 

 

September 10th to December 11, 2020

Personal and Material Geographies

The Craft  Council of BC

Vancouver, BC

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November 13th to December 17, 2020

Positively Petite Annual Miniature Exhibition

Place des Arts

Coquitlam, BC

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Past Exhibitions 

Solo

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2018

Valley to Valley, McMillan Arts Centre, Parksville, BC

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2020

Wildworks. Rainforest Arts, Chemainus, BC

 

Group

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2019/2020

One Tree

Bateman Foundation Gallery of Nature

Victoria, BC

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2019

Salt Spring National Art Prize. Finalist.

Salt Spring Island, BC

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2019

Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC

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2018

From The Studios; Connection

(A Crafted Vancouver invitational event)

Visual Space Gallery, Vancouver BC

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2018

Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC

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2018

Gathered Together; Northwest Basket Weavers Guild Exhibition

Whatcom Museum. Bellingham, WA

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2018

Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC

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Awards

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2019

Honourable Mention as chosen by Jury.

Sooke Fine Arts Show

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