Artist Statement

My name is Noelle Hamlyn and I am a Canadian maker. I am comfortable wearing the moniker of ‘craft.’ I use textiles and craft-practices to explore embodied memory and human experience. I am intrigued by textures, by ideas, by the world and our existence in it… I am fascinated by subjective perceptions of phenomena and intrigued by an object’s ability to absorb time - to conjure and hold narrative. I often reconfigure objects hoping to coax them into revealing their stories. This has led me to work with clothing and found objects, spinning wheels, sewing and hand tools, vintage life jackets, books, beeswax and rocks; using processes such as netting, tailoring, embroidery, salting, weaving, spinning, lacemaking, and dyeing. I aspire to reveal abstract and poetic ideas through technical and labour-intensive processes. I am inspired by my embodied knowledge and the meditation of my hands as they repeat tasks. I craft my own mindful presence as I make things… and these things in turn make me…

please visit www.noellehamlyn.com for more studio work