Artist Biography
Nadine Flagel is a self-taught emerging fibre artist from the Pacific Northwest. Trained as an academic in Brighton, UK, and Halifax, NS, Flagel taught literature and composition at post-secondary institutions for many years. The critical and conceptual skills developed thereby inform her artistic practice. This practice is centered on the reuse of worn clothing, most often in quilts and hooked rugs.
Flagel recently held her first two solo exhibitions. Much of the conceptual planning for these shows emerged from a fruitful residency at Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts. Occupying both academic and community spheres, Flagel enthusiastically publishes articles and delivers presentations about art and craft. She enjoys teaching about rug hooking and textile reuse through Maiwa School of Textiles as well as many smaller community programs. She has received grants to make art with youth, and collaborated with Deirdre Pinnock on a public art commission in Richmond, BC. She is also available to create artwork for private commissions. She is a member of CARFAC and Craft Council of BC.
A Vancouver settler, Flagel gratefully acknowledges that her life and work are made possible by the stewardship by the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm peoples of this unceded land.
Flagel recently held her first two solo exhibitions. Much of the conceptual planning for these shows emerged from a fruitful residency at Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts. Occupying both academic and community spheres, Flagel enthusiastically publishes articles and delivers presentations about art and craft. She enjoys teaching about rug hooking and textile reuse through Maiwa School of Textiles as well as many smaller community programs. She has received grants to make art with youth, and collaborated with Deirdre Pinnock on a public art commission in Richmond, BC. She is also available to create artwork for private commissions. She is a member of CARFAC and Craft Council of BC.
A Vancouver settler, Flagel gratefully acknowledges that her life and work are made possible by the stewardship by the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm peoples of this unceded land.