Alisa McRonald (Toronto, ON)
The Creep, Reclaimed t-shirts made into yarn and woven onto hemp warp, 2020, 59 x 57 x 3”
Bio
Alisa McRonald maintains her art practice in Guelph, she also acts as a creative mentor and teacher/facilitator via various organizations. She has always lived by the 90s DIY culture ethos both out of necessity and a belief in it. Since starting to weave, she has made her own looms out of found materials. In sourcing raw materials, she turns to thrift stores and knitters with bins of leftover project yarn. She also makes her own yarns out of t-shirts and other discarded textiles. The whole process, for her, from making the tools, creating the necessary materials right through to the finished product encompasses her creative process.
Artist Statement
Alisa McRonald’s woven weirdos live in the ironic pop-culture paradise of a Queer GenX Feminist. Her work is a tactile fruit salad with a soupçon of the esoteric.
She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally and her work has been featured in publications such as: The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Nylon Magazine and Giant Robot Magazine. She was awarded the 2020 Best of Craft and Design Award from the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and her work has been featured on many curatorial lists.