Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.
Elycia SFA is a textile artist based in Toronto. Her work explores personal narrative and the de/reconstruction of memory, nostalgia, and loss, by portraying these concepts in the form of handwoven cloth. She attended OCADU for Material Art and Design: Fibre, and graduated in 2015. Elycia was accepted into Harbourfront Centre’s Artist-In-Residence program and awarded a scholarship in 2016.
Using weaving to fabricate images of locations and objects in transition over time, the textile becomes a material archive of representing memory within a changing landscape, re-making and distorting the image within the woven cloth. In recent works, she has thematically explored the preservation and deconstruction of memory, with a focused interest in domestic dwellings and the objects that inhabit them. While considering weaving as a tool for image making, she incorporates woven inlay and embroidery which allow her to draw with thread and create representational imagery within the body of the cloth.
Test of time
Handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017
12.5 x 8.25
Lost Mail
Handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017
30.5 x 10 x 6.5 (airplane), 14 x 14 x 9 (crumpled paper), 17.5 x 9 x 6.5 (paper boat)
Lost Mail (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017
17.5 x 9 x 6.5 (paper boat)
52.610604, -106.986990
handwoven silk linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016
58.5 x 12.5
Correspondence 2/2
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017
20.5 x 25.5 (paper), 7.5 x 11.5 (photo)
Air Mail
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016
23 x 11.5 (air mail envelope), 23 x 11.5 (security envelope)
Air Mail (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2016
23 x 11.5 (security envelope)
Correspondence 1/2 (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread inlay, 2017
20.5 x 25.5 (paper)
Video Stills
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread and linen wrapped steel inlay, 2017
35.5 x 82.5
Video Stills (detail image)
Handwoven Silk Linen with sewing thread and linen wrapped steel inlay, 2017
35.5 x 82.5
Formerly the Ontario Crafts Council, Craft Ontario is a not-for-profit service organization that works to have craft recognized as a valuable part of life. We promote and celebrate professional craft through providing member opportunities, and advocate for craft practice by educating and empowering diverse audiences.