Woven Bowls
These bowls were made using recycled cloth and a traditional knotting technique. They featured in the exhibition Revive: Contemporary Caymanian Craft at NGCI in 2017, and are an excellent example of the intersection of traditional crafting techniques and fine arts in contemporary Caymanian culture.
About the Artist
Kathryn Elphinstone
b. 1957
Kathryn Elphinstone studied art at the University of Toronto, Canada. She received a BA majoring in Visual Arts and a B.Ed. from the same institution. Before arriving in the Cayman Islands in 1994 she was the head of Art at a high school north of Toronto and also taught Art at Seneca College, Toronto. In Cayman she continued to be involved in Art Education as well as the Art community. She has exhibited in numerous NGCI exhibitions including Upon the Seas (2017), 1st Cayman Islands Biennial: Cross Currents (2019), Island of Women (2020), Art Under Lockdown (2020), 2nd Cayman Islands Biennial: ReImagined Futures (2021), and 3rd Cayman Islands Biennial: Conversations with the Past-In the Present Tense (2023).
