CAROL MILNE •   Seattle, Washington

“I see my knitted work as a metaphor for social structure.  Individual strands are weak and brittle on their own, but deceptively strong when bound together.  You can crack or break single threads without the whole structure falling apart.  And even when the structure is broken, pieces remain bound together.  The connections are what bring strength and integrity to the whole and what keeps it intact.”

 Carol Milne received a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph, Canada in 1985, but realized in her senior year that she was more interested in sculpture than landscape.  She has been working as a sculptor ever since.  After casting iron around glass in graduate school, she experimented with many materials:  clay, bronze, concrete, wood, glass, epoxy, fiberglass, mosaic and found objects.  In 2000, she seriously returned to glass and has been working primarily with glass ever since.  Carol is the lone pioneer in the field of knitted glass.   Pushing the limits of her material through persistent and relentless experimentation, determined to combine her passion for knitting with her love for cast glass sculpture, she developed a variation of the lost wax casting process to cast knitted work in glass.

 


ASSOCIATED EXHIBITIONS

Carol Milne_ To Knit or Knot
SMALL FORMAT GALLERY
July 1 - August 24, 2022
MAIN GALLERY
March 4 - April 27, 2022
Weave. Knit. Stitch.
LOWER LEVEL GALLERY
July 2 - August 27, 2021