Artist: LIV PEDERSEN
Country: KANADA
Title: Angelique
Size: 46 x 27 cm
Technique: plain weave, rya knotting, weaving on Salish loom
Year: 2014
Biography:

Liv Pedersen emigrated from Denmark to Canada in 1973. She attended Alberta College of Art and Design from 1974-78 and graduated from the Faculty of Painting. After graduation she concentrated on weaving and started to exhibit. Recent group exhibitions include: the 9^th International Baltic Triennial of Miniature Textiles in Gdynia, Poland in 2013; the 10^th Polish National Exhibition of Miniature Textiles in Łódź, Poland in 2013; the Fiberworks at the Library Galleries in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada in 2012; and the PULSE Invitational Anniversary Show for the Alberta Society of Artists at the Triangle Gallery in Calgary, Canada in 2011. From 2006-09 she participated in the project “All About Alberta”, sponsored by the Alberta Craft Gallery and travelled to 3 countries, including Cheongju in South Korea. Liv also participated in the Smithsonian Folk Festival in Washington D.C., US. In 2014 she will participate in The Art is the Cloth exhibition at the New Hampshire Institute of Arts in USA.

Motto: Th e North American West Coast Salish Indian loom has a tendency to narrow as the weaving progress from the bottom to top. Liv Pedersen is interested in shaped weavings. In weaving angels she has combined Scandinavian rya knotting technique with tabby wea

The title of the second work : Angela
Size second work: 48 x 29 cm
Technique second work: plain weave, rya knotting, weaving on Salish loom
Year second work: 2014