CAROL MILNE •   Seattle, Washington

" 'Falling apart; knitting together' is the theme of my current collection. The inspiration came from reflecting upon a chaotic year.  Like life, all the pieces in this show have some imperfections, or unraveled sections. But there are also knitting needles carrying on despite it all. We all have scars we carry with us, but the important thing is not to let the scars keep us from creating. There is perfection in imperfection."

 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.