Norwin Anne: Weaving Art
Posted: Mar 22nd, 2023 | Gathering

Norwin Anne is a Filipinx multidisciplinary artist, (re)maker, and eco-culture communicator. They studied Fashion Techniques and Design at George Brown College with a waste-conscious approach and slow fashion mentality. Primarily working with secondhand materials, they started focusing on textile waste as a research study during school to understand its environmental impacts and beyond. They want to continue developing their ideas and merge their knowledge of fashion with other subjects by creating wearable art and installations to visually translate complex topics. After experimenting with new ways to use salvaged textiles in their work, they were inspired by traditional weaving techniques in the Philippines and have been exploring the art form as a way to (re)connect to their cultural roots.

This work is created as part of Gathering, the inaugural installation of our new Collection Gallery, featuring community stories told through our global collection. Grounded in community participation, the installation presents over 40 pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 objects from around the world. Choices of objects, responses, and retellings were gathered via open online calls for reflection, through partnerships with local organizations, and through artists’ interventions. Gathering explores themes related to migration and diaspora, the search for comfort in the domestic and familial, reclamation of ancestral traditions through contemporary artistic responses, and the relationship between textiles and the environment. 

Through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Now Strategy Initiative.