After we’d attended Mary Fox’s opening at the Gallery of BC Ceramics we walked over to Circle Craft to see the new show there: “Slipstitch’.

Potter Jackie Frioud and hooked rug artist Judy Robertson have collaborated on the theme of stitching. Jackie’s elegant thrown lidded pots are ‘held together’ with dainty drawn stitches, her angular dishes have the same tiny marks tracing across them.

Judy has painstakingly embroidered words on long strips of fabric and then hooked them into rugs, thus rendering the words unreadable. So there is a mystery to the content of her wall pieces and humour in stitches that do not hold pots closed.

Do pop in to Circle Craft and see the work of these two artists until October 4th 2011.