1991. Sentences Series. Six Medieval style tapestries. Solo exhibitions at New York Center for Tapestry Arts. AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. SENTENCES: SHE HAD NEVER TOUCHED A CAMERA BEFORE, which represented Canada in the Lodz Tapestry Bienniale in Poland is in the artist's collection and available for purchase. Lodz catalogue available.

The other pieces are in the collections of the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, The Canada Council. SENTENCES: FANAKALO AND THE VANISHING SIGNS in group exhibition, Destinations, at Maison Hamel-Bruneu, Quebec City, (Curator Marcel Marois) is in the collection of the artist and available for purchase.
Preparatory acrylic paintings on canvas (cartoons) in the Collection of the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
Essay by Cheryl Meszaros in "NeWest Review". June/July 1991. and Nancy Tousley (Dec. 29, 1990) in Calgary Herald




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The SENTENCES series began with a newspaper cutting which prompted me to start doing many colour drawings based on items from newspapers about some of the every day iniquities of the apartheid system in South Africa. Some of the drawings are still in my collection. (I have since read the term "poetising the every day" and liked the concept in retrospect.) The verbatim text was superimposed on a landscape or seascape, and transcribed a number of drawings into tapestry with fine silk to weave the words. In many cases the woven works included some autobiographical element. At the end of apartheid I stopped the series with the work, FANAKALO AND THE VANISHING SIGNS which is in my collection and available for purchase.