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Lesley Turner, 'Laundry Mantra: Close all Zippers', 2021, 36" x 36". Vintage cotton domestic linens, buttons, zippers, metal snaps, polyester thread. To launder became a universal task when humans started wearing clothes yet it has always been a highly gendered activity with misogynistic demands for spotlessly clean and mended results.

From Lesley Turner

  1. Laundry Mantra: Button Button by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Laundry Mantra: Button Button

    Vintage domestic linens embellished with buttons

    18 x 18 x 1 in

    C$100

  2. Idiom: Off the Cuff by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Idiom: Off the Cuff

    Men's cotton shirt, polyester thread, bed sheet

    9 x 9 x 0.5 in

    C$75

  3. Scorch: Oops by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Scorch: Oops

    Battenberg lace pillow case, cotton bedsheet, polyester thread

    22 x 22 x 0.5 in

    C$250

  4. Origins 1 by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Origins 1

    Vintage wool blankets hand and machine stitched and cut back applique.

    77 x 71 x 1 in

  5. Nostalgia by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Nostalgia

    Vintage oil painting with wool

    27 x 35 x 3 in

    NFS

  6. Home Comfort by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Home Comfort

    Hand-knit wool and cotton installation.

    NFS

  7. L'heritage des Ursulines by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    L'heritage des Ursulines

    Vintage buttons machine sewn on fabric.

    21 x 26 x 1.5 in

  8. Forest Reliquary by Lesley Turner, Image 1.

    Forest Reliquary

    Vintage embroidered cotton tablecloth, polyester & cotton thread, earth pigments, leaf skeletons, deer bones, maple tree samaras, fern spores

    28 x 16 x 2 in