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Mallory Donen

Creating connections between pixels and threads.
  • Available Artworks
  • Exhibitions
  • Recent Work
    • Instruction Tables
    • Translation Series
    • Static Glitch
    • Eri Simulation
    • Monochrome Series
    • Proofs of Labour
    • Vancouver Cityscape
    • Mundane Cross-Stitch Series
    • Becoming a Pixel
    • Glitch Streak
    • Invisible Labour: Cross-Stitching, Feminism, & the Collective Strength of Women
    • Uncanny Cross-Stitch Series
  • Archive
    • Society Reboot
    • Remnants of the Manmade
    • System Failure
    • What Am I?
    • What Happens to a Stressed System?
    • Glitch Series
    • May 6, 2017
    • Paint by Numbers Series
    • Knitting Ouroboros
    • Act Like a Machine
    • I Feel Like a Machine
    • Murals
    • Strokes
    • Urban Landscape
  • About
    • Biography
    • CV
    • Social
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October 2022 - Update

September 30, 2022
  • Back to the Future: Digital Art Through Embroidery & Sunshine Coast Art Crawl

  • Glitch Streak (Framed)

  • First Saturday at City Centre (ART SALE)

  • Vancouver Cityscape (Work in Progress)

  • The Artist Motel: Inside a Vancouver Experiment | The Tyee

  • LIMITED space still available for 2023 Cross-Stitch Portrait Commissions


Back to the Future: Digital Art Through Embroidery

Only two more weeks till my solo show in Sechelt! I’ve been getting all my works framed and exhibition ready in time for installation. I’ll be in Sechelt for the opening on Oct 14, details to come for the reception! The following weekend is the Sunshine Coast Art Crawl where you’ll find me at Doris Crowston Gallery (Oct 21-23) from 10am-5pm. On the Saturday, I’ll be giving an artist talk/walk through of the exhibition at 12pm. I’ll also be bringing some smaller works with me to sell while I’m there, including cross-stitch, prints, pins and cross-stitched cards. Can’t wait to share my work with a new audience!


Glitch Streak (Framed)

Speaking of framing works for my solo show in Sechelt…I recently picked up my custom frame for Glitch Streak last weekend and I’m in love with it. You just have to see the colour of the frame in person, it has a beautiful pink undertone that pairs perfectly with the pastel embroidery threads! I’ll take more photos once the work is installed for the show.

Glitch Streak, 2022, embroidery, Aida cloth, 21 x 35.5 inches, 182 hours of labour


First Saturday at City Centre (ART SALE)

First Saturday is a public monthly artist-run open-studio event. Come visit artists where they work at City Centre Artist Lodge.

First Saturday is a public monthly artist-run open-studio event.

Come visit artists where they work at City Centre Artist Lodge.

The following artist studios will be open:

*Jennifer Chernecki - Studio # 30
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Tracy Anne Northey - Studio # 34
Ilena Lee Cramer - Studio # 109
*Elana Sigal - Studio # 110
Lukas Lundberg - Studio # 208
*Mallory Donen - Studio # 211
LeLe Chan - Studio # 231

*Artist with an "*" next to their name are participating in the First Saturday October 1 ART SALE!

Experimental works, storage issues, end of series, older pieces of quality...need a home too! 

Join us from noon-5pm Saturday Oct.1st

City Centre Artist Lodge, 2111 Main Street @ 6th


Vancouver Cityscape (Work in Progress)

(WIP) Vancouver Cityscape, 2022, mixed textiles

This past month I’ve been putting lots of time and focus into my mixed textile Vancouver Cityscape project. I’ve hand-stitched embroidery thread around the buildings strips and machine sewed squares to represent the sunset sky and mountains. I also crocheted a few more building strips and sewed those onto the piece. I’ve also been adding hand-stitched embroidery details around each of the squares on the upper half.

I’m still figuring out this piece as I go, overall it’s been a very experimental intuitive process. I’m having lots of fun and decided to buy some more yarn which I might use to help fill in some more gaps. I have the rest of the year to finish this project and plan to add as much detail as I can! Once finished, this work will be heading to Mt. Pleasant Michigan for a solo show in February 2023.

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The Artist Motel: Inside a Vancouver Experiment | The Tyee


Check out this wonderful short documentary video on the City Centre Artist Motel that Sonal Gupta from The Tyee put together.

I'm one of the featured artists in the video, but more importantly the video sheds light on the value of artist spaces and how they are hard to come by in the City of Vancouver.

I'm so grateful for my art studio and to the Narrow Group for taking action on changing the "use" case of a building planned for demolition in about 2.5 years.

We need more permanent arts & culture spaces like this in Vancouver!


LIMITED space still available for 2023 Cross-Stitch Portrait Commissions

Don’t miss out on an opportunity to book a commission spot for next year.

Once spaces are full I’ll be closing my books, so be sure to sign up before it’s too late!

Head over to the commission section of my website (here) to learn more about how to claim your spot.

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