$450.00

Helen Betty

Ida Marie Threadkell
Saltspring Island, BC

$450.00

Helen Betty

Ida Marie Threadkell
Saltspring Island, BC

Size

26" x 12" x 11"

Medium

Silk fusion, red osier dogwood, rock

In 1971 Helen Betty Osborne, a 19-year-old Cree woman, was murdered in northern Manitoba. It took 16 years before only 1 of her 4 assailants was ever convicted. Silence and indifference ruled. This dress is done in her memory. Like lives, sticks are fragile and silk is beautiful. Like red dresses, memories fade and become grey but like rocks they last.

1 in stock

SKU: PAS46 Category:
About the artist

Ida Marie Threadkell
Saltspring Island, BC

Originally from Winnipeg where she obtained a degree in Clothing and Textiles and an MBA, Ida Marie has always worked with fibre, first with sewing and since coming to Salt Spring, with spinning, weaving fabric, tapestries and baskets, doing kumihimo (Japanese braiding), felting and working with silk fusion. Her work can be seen on Salt Spring Island at Gallery 8 and Coast Gallery.

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