 Laurie Swim, Visual
Artist/Author
Laurie Swim creates large scale fabric murals for public space. She has many years of experience working with Architects,
Art Consultants, and Interior Designers as well as producing commissioned work for private collectors.
Laurie worked with volunteers on her first community arts project in
1995, to create Pulling Together, a
9' x 15' quilted fabric mural wall hanging that commemorates the labourers who built the historic
Rideau Canal from 1832 –1862
In February, 1999, Laurie learned of a tunneling
accident that killed five young Italian immigrants in 1960 and how it changed safety
regulations in Ontario. Realizing there was little awareness of the
incident, she began the research that would allow her to envision and
actualize a memorial to the five men who were killed in the accident.
Forming a partnership with COSTI enabled Laurie to make a 7' x 19'
mural which will be installed in the York Mills subway station, March
17, 2002: Breaking Ground -- The Hoggs Hollow Disaster,
1960.
During the summer of 2000 Laurie created a memorial art quilt,
Lost at Sea, to commemorate 17 fishermen who perished in a vicious storm in
1961. This Millennium art project is on permanent display at the
Crescent Beach Centre, in her home town of Lockeport, Nova Scotia.
Laurie Swim offers design workshops to quilt, embroidery guilds,
sewing groups. She is the author of The Joy of Quilting on CD-ROM, the world's first quilting program on compact disc. She has also written two quilting books:
The Joy of Quilting with an Introduction by Alex Colville (1984), and
Quilting (1990).
Visit Laurie Swim's website and view her online gallery.
Please e-mail Laurie Swim at: swim@ican.net
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