Jennifer Smith-Windsor

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    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.

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Jennifer Smith-Windsor

Helen Frances Gregor Award

Jennifer Smith-Windsor is a textile artist. Her textile pieces incorporates second-hand textiles and hand and machine embroidery. She uses predominantly handmade domestic textiles such as lace and crocheted doilies as they act as a reminder of the women in the past who were tasked to fill idle moments and to beautify the home with these now, irrelevant objects. She has always been drawn to cloth, embroidering as a child, sewing her own clothes as a teenager, taking textile and costume studies as a young adult and now working with cloth in her art practice. It is cloth’s intimate relationship to the body, its ubiquity in our lives, its associations with the home, its links to the past and its relevance to the future that continues to inspire her.

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Security Blanket: Switzerland
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 142.5 cm X 192 cm, 2016

Detail of Security Blanket: Switzerland
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 142.5 cm X 192 cm, 2016

Security Blanket: Russia
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 136 cm X 196 cm, 2018

Detail of Security Blanket: Russia
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 136 cm X 196 cm, 2018

Security Blanket: Canada
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 143 cm X 178 cm, 2018

Detail of Security Blanket: Canada
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 143 cm X 178 cm, 2018

Security Blanket: Italy
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 157 cm X 194.5 cm, 2017

Detail of Security Blanket: Italy
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 157 cm X 194.5 cm, 2017

Detail of Security Blanket: United States
Army blanket, Cotton lace and Doilies, Embroider floss, 165.5 cm X 194 cm, 2019

Who We Are

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.