Kaleidoscope, 2022
Canadian, based in Vancouver, BC
Found denim and thread, 14 × 14 in. (35.5 × 35.5 cm)
This was the titular work of Kate Miller’s 2022 exhibition at the Dal Schindell Gallery, which focused on the beauty inherent to the forms and processes of patchworking and homemaking. Miller understands the home to be a place which cultivates human flourishing for the sake of the world, rather than an isolated, self-enclosed domain. Through slow textile and fibre handiwork, she practices and teaches making and mending as a way to love and serve others in and from home. Often using her family’s disused clothing and working entirely by hand, Miller creates quilts that not only challenge the values of industrialized, disposable fashion but also celebrate personal histories, craft knowledge, and gratitude.
About the Artist
Kate Miller is a homemaker who reimagines the home as a place which cultivates human flourishing for the sake of the world, rejecting the idea of home as a separate sphere. Through slow textile and fibre handiwork, she practices and teaches making and mending as a way to love and to serve others from this place. Her study of Amish quiltmaking and connoisseurship aims to reconcile the false dichotomy of art and craft, recovering a theological vision of the arts rooted in gratuity, vocation, and wisdom.
Kate Miller 's Work
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- Art Collection
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