Laurie Swim

Biography

Solo work

• Eve’s Apple, 104″ x 96″. Awarded best in show at the first annual Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council Juried Exhibition in 1976.
• From Our Backyard
• Magic Hour, Blue Rocks
• In the Gut
• Make-and-Break, designated as "outstanding significance and national importance" by the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board in 2014.
• Time Goes By
• Hope and Survival

  Collaborative work

• Pulling Together, The Builders of The Rideau Canal, 1826-1832, 9′ × 15′, created in collaboration with the support of the Ontario Arts Council; part of the permanent collection of the Workers Art and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• Lost at Sea, 1961, a fisherman’s memorial housed in the Community Center of Lockeport, Nova Scotia.
• Breaking Ground — The Hogg’s Hollow Disaster, 1960, 7ʻ × 20ʻ, hangs in the York Mills subway station, Toronto.
• The Canadian Young Worker’s Memorial Quilt supported by Ontario Federation of Labour.
• The Lunenburg Heritage Quilt, created for the town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia for its 250th anniversary. The work hangs at The Fishermen’s Memorial Hospital.
• Hope and Survival, The Halifax Explosion Memorial Quilt for the 2017 centenary of the Halifax Explosion. The artist wrote and illustrated a children's book Hope and Survival: A story of the Halifax Explosion using elements from the quilt for the illustrations.

  Books

• The Joy of Quilting, with an introduction by Alex Colville.
• Quilting.
• Rags to Riches: The Quilt as Art, with an introduction by the artist Mary Pratt.
• Hope and Survival: A story of the Halifax Explosion, a children's book and work of historical fiction

  Awards

• 2013 Portia White Prize, Nova Scotia’s highest award for Artistic Excellence and Contribution to the community.
• 2013 Dorothy MacMurdie Award, for outstanding contribution to Canadian Quilting.
• 2009 designated a Master Artisan by the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council.