Dawn Livera (any pronouns) is a textile and mixed media artist who believes that “there are no mistakes”.
She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, spent her childhood in London, England and her adolescence in Kelowna, BC, Canada, the unceded territory of the Syilx People. She has lived in Vancouver, Canada, Coast Salish territory, her whole adult life.
She works primarily with scrap fabrics that might otherwise be considered useless. She intentionally uses uneven stitches and irregular shapes to highlight the difference between things made by machines and things made by human hands. The flaws, inconsistencies and improvisations embedded in her work are not mistakes but essential elements that remind us of the beauty that emerges when stories are allowed to unfold intuitively rather than being forced into uniform conformity.
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