like making a tailored jacket out of tea towels

—Anne Low

Issue 4.3 Real Materials is the first art-focused issue of The Capilano Review in nearly a decade, re-upping an ethos of deep thinking, close making. It engages a variety of artists working today to ask: What are the real materials with which you work? What material conditions guide, inform, or sustain your making? The contributors to this issue centre modes of listening to and learning from materials, modelling how curiosity, humility, and sensitivity to lesser determined, furtive forms of knowledge can serve to powerfully reorient our relationships to each other, our environments, and ourselves.

Featuring an artist project by Anne Low and accompanying conversation with Art Editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on artistic research, process, and craft; an image folio of recent drawings by Atheana Picha and conversation between Atheana Picha, mentor Aaron Nelson-Moody, and curator Emily Dundas Oke on material practices, lineages, and relationships; an image folio of new textile works by Laura Grier; new painting folios by Nadya Isabella and Les Ramsay; a conversation between past editors Pierre Coupey, Jenny Penberthy, and Dorothy Jantzen on the legacy of Ann Rosenberg, former Editor of Visual Media; a review of Liz Magor’s recent collection of writings by Yasmine Whaley-Kalora; and new poetry by Saif Alsaegh, Alison Bosley, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Tina Do, Cristina Holman, Lee Suksi, Ruoyu Wang, and ryan fitzpatrick.

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