Shayla Bond

Shayla Bond is a Canadian textile artist who integrates design principles into fibre works to preserve heritage craft techniques within a contemporary framework. Her work explores themes of perfectionism, control, and obsession through aesthetic strategies such as color, precision, and repetition.

After spending a decade in a digital career post-university, Bond returned to her formal training in textiles, seeking a more profound, tactile connection with her work. Her process combines her experience in computer-generated design with hands-on traditional techniques. Her quest for perfection is evident in her manipulation of pliable materials, compelling them to take on definite forms using sewing, weaving, and quiltmaking.

In her recent body of work, Bond begins with computer-generated pixel patterns created through numerical algorithms and digitally manipulates the templates to provoke distinct emotional and aesthetic reactions. This process bridges the digital with the tactile and challenges the impersonal nature of technology through the intimacy of craft.

Shayla's contemporary quilts transcend traditional boundaries, fluidly moving from floor to bed to wall to furniture, challenging and expanding the conventional roles of qui...

BFA Fashion & Textiles - NSCAD University

2024
A Matter of Time - Pop-Up Gallery (forthcoming group exhibition)

Seamlight - Solo Exhibition at the Vitrine Gallery

Beyond Wada in Bloom - Solo Installation
DesignTO Festival

2023
Artist's Choice (Juried) - Group Exhibition
Contemporary Art Room Gallery

2018
Lumas Gallery - Group Exhibition for the Artist Series x By The Namesake

2017
Blank Canvas Gallery - Group Exhibition
Bxxbs

2014
Anna Leonowens Gallery - Group Exhibition
Aphrodite's Second Skin

2011
Anna Leonowens Gallery - Group Exhibition
Togetherness