High Tide
High Tide

Johanna Norry + Amanda Britton | Vinyl, Ephemera, Cotton, Wool, Silk, Organza, Denim, Polyester Thread | 2024 | 17' x 8'

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High Tide, Detail
High Tide, Detail

Amanda Britton + Johanna Norry | 2024 | 17' x 8' | Vinyl, Ephemera, Cotton, Wool, Silk, Organza, Denim, Polyester Thread

Mobile Bay
Mobile Bay

2024 | 22" x 28" | Dyed and Screen printed Silk Organza

Dearborn Delta
Dearborn Delta

2024 | 22" x 28" | Dyed and Screen printed Silk Organza

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Sometimes, It Just Fits
Sometimes, It Just Fits

2023 | 30” x 7’ | Collage of hand-dyed, handwoven, organic cotton warp and weft

Sometimes, It Just Fits (detail)
Sometimes, It Just Fits (detail)

2023 | 30” x 7’ | Collage of hand-dyed, handwoven, organic cotton warp and weft

Swimming in the Gene Pool
Swimming in the Gene Pool

2023 | Diptych, 16” x 16” each

Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

My Work Is Never Done
My Work Is Never Done

2023 | 72" x 48" x 1" | Knitted cotton, bamboo, linen, mohair, wool, silk, paper | Assembled parts of unfinished knitting projects--sleeves, cardigan fronts and backs, vest halves, and scarves knitted over a 15 year period

Parts Work, VI: Repair is Part of the Process  and Parts Work, V: It’s a Journey
Parts Work, VI: Repair is Part of the Process and Parts Work, V: It’s a Journey

2023 | Assemblage of handwoven painted warp organic cotton

Parts Work IV: Reliving the Blues
Parts Work IV: Reliving the Blues

2023 | Assemblage of handwoven, indigo dyed organic cotton

Rebels, 1984/2022
Rebels, 1984/2022

2023 | Diptych, 16" x 16” each | Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

A Lesson in Impermanence
A Lesson in Impermanence

2023 | Diptych, 16" x 16” each | Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

Sapelo Dreams: Asleep in a Live Oak
Sapelo Dreams: Asleep in a Live Oak

2023 | 17” x 60” | Handwoven cotton and wool

Parts Work II: Vestiges Reappearing
Parts Work II: Vestiges Reappearing

2023 | 23.5” x 23.5” | Assemblage of handwoven, hand painted organic cotton

Sapelo Dream: The Path of Silence
Sapelo Dream: The Path of Silence

2023 | 17” x 50” | Handwoven Cotton and wool

Unabandoned
Unabandoned

2023 | 24” x 24” | Hand knitted cotton, wool, bamboo and silk mohair, mounted on wood panel

Parts Work I: The Sex of the Artist Matters
Parts Work I: The Sex of the Artist Matters

2023 | 24” x 32” | Assemblage of handwoven cotton, silk, tencel, cashmere, bamboo, metallic threads

The Weight of Our Collected Past
The Weight of Our Collected Past

Johanna Norry + Amanda Britton | 2023 | 25 x 23” | Assemblage of handwovens, combined personal collections of photos, rocks and shells and other natural objects, letterpress type tray

Memory Reliquary No. 2
Memory Reliquary No. 2

2023 | 8” x 8” | Plexi boxes with photo weavings, weavings on denim micarta stones, fragments of handwoven indigo dyed cotton, ABritton-made resin shell

Some Parts are Inherited
Some Parts are Inherited

2023 | 24” x 24” | Handwoven linen and layered photos on canvas mounted on wood panel

Memory Reliquary No. 1
Memory Reliquary No. 1

2023 |14” x 14” | Weavings on wood panels with metallic thread and wool, weaving on stone, linen bags with hand-embroidered iron grommets, stones, shells, handmade white denim micarta bone, pink vinyl, ABritton-made resin shells.

Breathing New Life
Breathing New Life

2023 | 22” x 18” x 2” | This piece combines two forms that I use in my textile work. One is a new material I have been exploring--a cloth of structurally connected fulled wool pom poms, and the other is one I frequently incorporate, a knitted biomorphic tendril form that evokes both the internal body and plant life.

Gender Is Material
Gender Is Material

Hand quilted pieced cotton fabric | 2023

Tabloid II: Lion Kills Trainer
Tabloid II: Lion Kills Trainer

Linen Appliqué, Free-Motion Embroidery, Hand Embroidery, Quilting 29.5" x 23" | 2023 | This is the second in a series of 'Tabloid" quilts depicting stories that appeared on the same pages of the newspaper in later December 1949 as the story of my great aunt and uncle, Kathleen and John Drewry (she shot him and his mistress in 1949). This is May Kovar, a lion tamer, who was killed by her lion, Sultan, in front of her young children.

Carol Ann's Consolation
Carol Ann's Consolation

1950 press photo, newspaper text printed on tracing paper, painted watercolor paper, torn handmade Japanese papers

2023

9” x 11.5”

Kathleen, Short and Plump
Kathleen, Short and Plump

1952 press photo, newspaper text printed on newsprint, wood panel

2023

8” x 10”

Yellow Wallpaper
Yellow Wallpaper

1950 press photo of my great aunt Kathleen, vintage yellow wallpaper, vintage oil painting color chart, thread, painted wood panel

2023

12” x 12”

John, Short and Stout
John, Short and Stout

2023 | 8” x 12” | 1950 press photo, letter printed on vellum, newspaper headlines

Louis Boy and the Sing Sing Lifers
Louis Boy and the Sing Sing Lifers

12” x 12” Digital and analog collage

Walking on Water
Walking on Water

2023 | Torn Japanese and hand marbled rice papers and photo printed on vintage onion skin paper on wood panel | 10” x 10”

High Tide
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High Tide, Detail
Mobile Bay
Dearborn Delta
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Sometimes, It Just Fits
Sometimes, It Just Fits (detail)
Swimming in the Gene Pool
My Work Is Never Done
Parts Work, VI: Repair is Part of the Process  and Parts Work, V: It’s a Journey
Parts Work IV: Reliving the Blues
Rebels, 1984/2022
A Lesson in Impermanence
Sapelo Dreams: Asleep in a Live Oak
Parts Work II: Vestiges Reappearing
Sapelo Dream: The Path of Silence
Unabandoned
Parts Work I: The Sex of the Artist Matters
The Weight of Our Collected Past
Memory Reliquary No. 2
Some Parts are Inherited
Memory Reliquary No. 1
Breathing New Life
Gender Is Material
Tabloid II: Lion Kills Trainer
Carol Ann's Consolation
Kathleen, Short and Plump
Yellow Wallpaper
John, Short and Stout
Louis Boy and the Sing Sing Lifers
Walking on Water
High Tide

Johanna Norry + Amanda Britton | Vinyl, Ephemera, Cotton, Wool, Silk, Organza, Denim, Polyester Thread | 2024 | 17' x 8'

High Tide, Detail

Amanda Britton + Johanna Norry | 2024 | 17' x 8' | Vinyl, Ephemera, Cotton, Wool, Silk, Organza, Denim, Polyester Thread

Mobile Bay

2024 | 22" x 28" | Dyed and Screen printed Silk Organza

Dearborn Delta

2024 | 22" x 28" | Dyed and Screen printed Silk Organza

Sometimes, It Just Fits

2023 | 30” x 7’ | Collage of hand-dyed, handwoven, organic cotton warp and weft

Sometimes, It Just Fits (detail)

2023 | 30” x 7’ | Collage of hand-dyed, handwoven, organic cotton warp and weft

Swimming in the Gene Pool

2023 | Diptych, 16” x 16” each

Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

My Work Is Never Done

2023 | 72" x 48" x 1" | Knitted cotton, bamboo, linen, mohair, wool, silk, paper | Assembled parts of unfinished knitting projects--sleeves, cardigan fronts and backs, vest halves, and scarves knitted over a 15 year period

Parts Work, VI: Repair is Part of the Process and Parts Work, V: It’s a Journey

2023 | Assemblage of handwoven painted warp organic cotton

Parts Work IV: Reliving the Blues

2023 | Assemblage of handwoven, indigo dyed organic cotton

Rebels, 1984/2022

2023 | Diptych, 16" x 16” each | Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

A Lesson in Impermanence

2023 | Diptych, 16" x 16” each | Collage of handwoven cloth and woven photos on canvas, wood panels

Sapelo Dreams: Asleep in a Live Oak

2023 | 17” x 60” | Handwoven cotton and wool

Parts Work II: Vestiges Reappearing

2023 | 23.5” x 23.5” | Assemblage of handwoven, hand painted organic cotton

Sapelo Dream: The Path of Silence

2023 | 17” x 50” | Handwoven Cotton and wool

Unabandoned

2023 | 24” x 24” | Hand knitted cotton, wool, bamboo and silk mohair, mounted on wood panel

Parts Work I: The Sex of the Artist Matters

2023 | 24” x 32” | Assemblage of handwoven cotton, silk, tencel, cashmere, bamboo, metallic threads

The Weight of Our Collected Past

Johanna Norry + Amanda Britton | 2023 | 25 x 23” | Assemblage of handwovens, combined personal collections of photos, rocks and shells and other natural objects, letterpress type tray

Memory Reliquary No. 2

2023 | 8” x 8” | Plexi boxes with photo weavings, weavings on denim micarta stones, fragments of handwoven indigo dyed cotton, ABritton-made resin shell

Some Parts are Inherited

2023 | 24” x 24” | Handwoven linen and layered photos on canvas mounted on wood panel

Memory Reliquary No. 1

2023 |14” x 14” | Weavings on wood panels with metallic thread and wool, weaving on stone, linen bags with hand-embroidered iron grommets, stones, shells, handmade white denim micarta bone, pink vinyl, ABritton-made resin shells.

Breathing New Life

2023 | 22” x 18” x 2” | This piece combines two forms that I use in my textile work. One is a new material I have been exploring--a cloth of structurally connected fulled wool pom poms, and the other is one I frequently incorporate, a knitted biomorphic tendril form that evokes both the internal body and plant life.

Gender Is Material

Hand quilted pieced cotton fabric | 2023

Tabloid II: Lion Kills Trainer

Linen Appliqué, Free-Motion Embroidery, Hand Embroidery, Quilting 29.5" x 23" | 2023 | This is the second in a series of 'Tabloid" quilts depicting stories that appeared on the same pages of the newspaper in later December 1949 as the story of my great aunt and uncle, Kathleen and John Drewry (she shot him and his mistress in 1949). This is May Kovar, a lion tamer, who was killed by her lion, Sultan, in front of her young children.

Carol Ann's Consolation

1950 press photo, newspaper text printed on tracing paper, painted watercolor paper, torn handmade Japanese papers

2023

9” x 11.5”

Kathleen, Short and Plump

1952 press photo, newspaper text printed on newsprint, wood panel

2023

8” x 10”

Yellow Wallpaper

1950 press photo of my great aunt Kathleen, vintage yellow wallpaper, vintage oil painting color chart, thread, painted wood panel

2023

12” x 12”

John, Short and Stout

2023 | 8” x 12” | 1950 press photo, letter printed on vellum, newspaper headlines

Louis Boy and the Sing Sing Lifers

12” x 12” Digital and analog collage

Walking on Water

2023 | Torn Japanese and hand marbled rice papers and photo printed on vintage onion skin paper on wood panel | 10” x 10”

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