Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The two wool bundles from In the Middle of the World return to private collection

Her Arms Wrapped Round and My Heart, broken branches wrapped with dyed wool
with Underfoot the Earth Divine dyed linen and wool quilt,  
shown installed in Artsplace, Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia, September 2024

These two wool bundles entered private collection in 2021.  The collector saw them installed at The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario.  They are an important part of the two person exhibition, In The Middle of the World.  (Judy Martin, Penny Berens)  (curator Miranda Bouchard).    . 

My Heart with The Forever at the World of Threads, Oakville Ontario, October 2023

They were loaned back to the artist when the exhibition went on tour in 2023 and 2024.  

Her Arms Wrapped Round with Eternity at the World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario in 2023

The two bundles installed in the Douglas Family Art Centre, Kenora , May 2023
background is Penny Berens' Waiting Between Night and Day, hand stitched linen

Now the tour is over and the bundles are being returned to the collector who lives in Quebec.
The artist is grateful.  

When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That is long faded from the world
W B Yeats  

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