About The Artist
Bio
Hi, I'm Jo-Anne Sullivan
For over 40 years, I have been creating with textiles in unique and unusual ways. I began as a child creating small and medium sized dolls and have spent the next four decades perfecting my self-taught craft into works of art.
While I work mainly with fabrics, I create in several mediums and I am always exploring new ones.
I love to move and stretch and hold fabric in place, to create three dimensional and lifelike human figures turning them into animated puppets, fantasy characters and other amazing works of art. I continue to develop my artistic style and rarely ever create the same thing in the same way twice.
I'm filled with more ideas than I will ever have time to manifest.
Taking a break from creating in the studio.
Jo-Anne Sullivan Short Bio
Jo-Anne Sullivan is a self taught fabrics and textiles sculpture artist that presently lives in Altamont, Manitoba. Fabrics are her favourite artistic medium for their weaves, textures, flow of movement and colourful finishes. From a young age it was her interest in fabrics and sewing that led to the manipulation of these materials into forms of expressive art. She has always done everything from "scratch" and is self-taught in many art forms and the medias that support it for over 4 decades.
Jo-Anne and her works of art have been featured on television programs, photographed for the covers of magazines and books, and written about in numerous articles, and she has exhibited and sold her works internationally.
Attention to detail began at a young age, bringing with it awards recognizing Jo-Anne’s achievements in language, music and art. The Canada Council awarded her with a grant for the creation of her ‘Windows On The World’ display. Accomplishments include Jo-Anne’s gallery showings in Winnipeg Manitoba Concert Hall Piano Nobile, The Museum of Man and Nature’s feature ‘Get Back’. Ottawa, Ontario at the Ottawa Museum of Civilization’s ‘The Beatles’ display with her sculpture art of John Lennon. Featured in his own Phantom V Rolls Royce, The Art Essentials Gallery Santa Barbara, California featuring many of her works. She has participated in Children’s TV shows and festivals and has appeared alongside The Louvres and other Fine Art Establishments in TV Shows featuring art and artists on the Internet.
Some of the collaborations Jo-Anne has worked on are with entertainer Al Simmons, Adam Rickner puppet master/entertainer, Dave Schaldemose at the Robotics Department University of Manitoba, the Norman Rockwell Society of Denver, Colorado, and with Andy Little producer of CBC’s On the Road Again.
Jo-Anne and her works of art have been featured on television programs, photographed for the covers of magazines and books, and written about in numerous articles, and she has exhibited and sold her works internationally.
Attention to detail began at a young age, bringing with it awards recognizing Jo-Anne’s achievements in language, music and art. The Canada Council awarded her with a grant for the creation of her ‘Windows On The World’ display. Accomplishments include Jo-Anne’s gallery showings in Winnipeg Manitoba Concert Hall Piano Nobile, The Museum of Man and Nature’s feature ‘Get Back’. Ottawa, Ontario at the Ottawa Museum of Civilization’s ‘The Beatles’ display with her sculpture art of John Lennon. Featured in his own Phantom V Rolls Royce, The Art Essentials Gallery Santa Barbara, California featuring many of her works. She has participated in Children’s TV shows and festivals and has appeared alongside The Louvres and other Fine Art Establishments in TV Shows featuring art and artists on the Internet.
Some of the collaborations Jo-Anne has worked on are with entertainer Al Simmons, Adam Rickner puppet master/entertainer, Dave Schaldemose at the Robotics Department University of Manitoba, the Norman Rockwell Society of Denver, Colorado, and with Andy Little producer of CBC’s On the Road Again.
The Galleries
My Artwork
These are my lifesized OOAK (One of a kind) Character Sculptures created over decades and still being created today.
I have explored other ways of stretching the limits with my artwork. This is a selection of some of my other three-dimensional creations.
Wall mountable Artworks with three-dimensional twists, turns and surpises. These works are a culmination of all my styles manifested individually onto smaller surfaces.
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