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More Than Me: The Sea Project with Dianne Lister and Diane Reesor

Saturday, 2025-03-01

We start at 5p.m. - 8p.m.

📍 Kingston Frameworks

Continuing on with their work from the 2024 More than Me project at the Tett Center, Dianne Lister and Diane Reesor will transform the Works Gallery into a point of reflection about interconnetivity between ourselves and the Sea.

”Being inspired by another artist’s work happens all the time.
Being encouraged to intentionally re-imagine someone’s work is very rare.
This show has been a continuing journey of discovery about ourselves as
artists, friends and co-workers. Its about allowing our personal
visions and creations to be taken far beyond our original intent. Its about trust. It’s a creative interface.”

Diane Reesor:
I grew up with strong connections to a Mennonite community, a culture of plain people who wasted nothing, and cherished everything. Doing patch work, making clothes and creating fine needlework were valuable skills passed on from women to women. My grandfather, a harness maker of renown, taught me to sew with less traditional materials. The industrial sewing machines used needles the size of a fine knitting needle and very heavy linen thread. He taught me to think about how things are made and the importance of good design and properly made patterns. He taught me the art of fine workmanship. My textile-based fibre art practice has expanded over the decades allowing me to create and interpret through embroidery, weaving, and collage with an understanding of silk screen, dye technology, and soft sculpture. I am eager to interpret Dianne Lister's photography, and extend her artform by applying my craft disciplines.

Dianne Lister: As a photographer I was initially attracted to graphic elements of pattern, light and textures. As my work evolved, visual storytelling became the focus, and austere locales the backdrops, to explore the human condition. The exhibition, Montana, An Altered State (2013) was produced after a three week road trip shooting natural and built landscapes, receding glaciers and bison theme parks, among other vignettes, to explore the social issue of division as I cross-crossed The Great Divide of the Rockies. The Travelling Blue Dress Project (2017, 2024) encouraged commentary about female identity, strength and vulnerability using the technique of intervention. The Value Village thrift dress was placed in remote locations, travelling 55,000 km over a 8 year period. The widely varying responses to the blue dress images taught me that once released into the public, art takes on a meaning beyond the artist's original intent. Being introduced to Diane Reesor's 2- and 3-D creations over the past decade, and having the privilege of being invited to witness her creative process, has led me into a new realm of photography, and to this discipline of inter-art.