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Gareth Bate Artist & Curator

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Artist: Painting, drawing, installation. 🏳️‍🌈#GarethBateArt Curator of World of Threads Festival. @worldofthreads 🍉🇵🇸🇱🇧 Free Palestine & Lebanon.

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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🙏🏻❤️💋🥳🍆🍑🌮💦🔥😈🤪👀💅🏻🌎 taken in Toronto Ontario Canada by @garethbate

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New one. First black and white painting. 2020-2022. by @garethbate

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Here’s the Opening Reception of World of Threads Festival 2023 @worldofthreads on Sat. Oct. 14, 2023. 🎉 It was fabulous. Massive turnout! Over 3000 people went through the building on Saturday alone. Thanks to the 67 artists who travelled from France, Spain, Mexico, US Virgin Islands, and across Canada and the USA to attend in person. Thanks to everyone who attended. The festival is organized and curated by Dawne Rudman and Gareth Bate @garethbate. Thanks to Carol Stanley, Volunteer Coordinator. Thanks to the volunteers who put together this wonderful Reception:
Jeanne Hamill, Freda Cott, Carol Stanley, Jean Towell, Heidi Daughney, Susan Richard, Ann Van Stone, Sophia Cott.

Bus Tour by Caren DesBrisay and Gareth Bate. Thanks to Caren for preparing the name tags for the artists.
Thanks to all the volunteer Gallery Sitters – they will be here for the duration of the festival – from October 10 to December 17.

Thanks to Albert Fuchigami who is our Artist Portrait Photographer.
Large artworks in the background by Deborah Kruger, Melanie Siegel, Gretchen Jankowski, Bonnie J Smith. Judith E Martin, Ixchel Suarez, Stéphanie Zito, Elizabeth Babyn.

World of Threads Festival

Local, National & International Contemporary Fibre & Textile Arts

Dates: Tues. Oct. 10 - Sun. Dec. 17, 2023
Hours: Mon. - Sat. 10 am - 6 pm, Sun. 12 - 5 pm.
Admission: FREE!

Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Centre
2302 Bridge Road, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Parking: Free
The building is physically accessible and inclusive.

Featuring 426 artworks by 115 artists from:
Canada, England, Finland, France, Hungary, India,
Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand,
South Korea, Spain, Uruguay, USA,
US Virgin Islands, Wales.

Check out our website for directions, art bus tour, maps, artist interviews.
www.worldofthreadsfestival.com

#worldofthreads #worldofthreadsfestival #fibreartist #fiberart #fiberart #fiberartist #textileart #textileartist #oakville #oakvilleontario #contemporaryart #opening #openingreception taken in Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre Qepccc by @garethbate

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At the opening of World of Threads Festival 2026-27. @worldofthreads I co-curated the festival and this exhibition “Water Stories” with my mom Dawne Rudman. This is the main gallery show. Amazing turnout. 98 of the artists attended in person from around the world. On until Jan. In Oakville, Ontario. Follow the Instagram for reels. taken in Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre Qepccc by @garethbate

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The protest against Doug Fords destruction of the island with the airport expansion is next Sunday 26th. 10:30 am to 12:30. Starting at Harbour Square Park. Beautiful Sunday at the Hanlan’s. So nice to BREATH clean air after living on Dune. #toronto #wildfire #fifaworldcup2026 #nojets taken in Toronto Ontario Canada by @garethbate

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Visiting an old friend in Montreal a few months ago. “Cosmos and Tsunami” from my Floating World Series from 2010s I think. The body of work was a response to the Japanese Tsunami. Most of this series has ended up living in Montreal. #garethbateart #tsunami taken in Montreal, Quebec by @garethbate

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2019-2022. Acrylic on canvas. by @garethbate

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New painting done. taken in Toronto Ontario Canada by @garethbate

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New painting finished today. 2019-2022. Acrylic on canvas. by @garethbate

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Some of the newly finished paintings hanging in the studio. 2019 and 2022/23. #abstract #abstractart #abstractpainting #garethbateart by @garethbate

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Studio works in progress. We’ll just pretend the two year 2020-2021 gap didn’t happen because 2022 went very well. by @garethbate

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PEI portrait. Age 44. taken in Prince Edward Island by @garethbate

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