CV Greta Grip & Lee Jones Everyday E-textiles Collaboration (www.everydayetextiles.com)
PUBLIC ART
2023 -Life of a Party, (Juired, CARFAC) Commissioned by Video Pool, Winnipeg, Manitoba Description: A miniature knitting machine that creates a knitted streamer as individuals walk by the sensor.
2023 -Life of a Building, (CARFAC) Commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON for Filtered Exhibition. Description: The knitted tube that was created by a circular knitting machine that visualizes the Ottawa Art Gallery’s data during the year of the pandemic recovery.
2022-2023 -Life of a Small Town, (Juried, CARFAC) Commissioned by the Critical Mass, Port Hope, ON Description: A circular knitting machine that visualizes the Town of Port Hope data during the year of the pandemic recovery.
2022 -An Ephemeral Meal, (Invited, CARFAC ) Curated by Fait Maison, Art-Image Espace Odyssée, Gatineau, QC Description: An interactive smart textile parlor game.
2022 -Unraveling: It’s Up To You, From One Place to Another: Wandering Art, (Juried, CARFAC) Union Gallery, Kingston, ON LINK Description: Several knitted panels with images and texts gathered from responses from the community, automatically and manually unravel.
2021-2022 -The Life of a Building, (Invited, CARFAC) Commissioned by the Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON for Filtered Exhibition. Description: A circular knitting machine that visualizes the Ottawa Art Gallery’s data during the year of the pandemic recovery.LINK LINK LINK LINK
EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Nature, Being & Technology International Contemporary Textile & Fibre Art Exhibition, (juried), Cotton Factory, Hamilton, ON
2025 - Soft Sensing, (juried, CARFAC) Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
2023 - It Gives Me the Feels, (invited) Sivarulrasa Gallery, Almonte, ON
2023 - Beyond the Bar Graph, (juried, CARFAC) Arts Etobicoke, Etobicoke, ON
2023 - No Ceiling: It’s About Time, (juried, CARFAC) Struts, Sackville, NB
2023 - Life of a Party, (de)Press(i)On, (juried, CARFAC) Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR), Winnipeg, MB
2023 - Knit Markers: Collaborating with Machines, (invited, CARFAC) Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, ON
2022 - Final Exhibition for Ferment AI Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany
2022 - Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Bio-data Portraits with Smart Textiles, Artengine, Ottawa, ON
2022 - Unraveling: It’s Up To You (second iteration), Artengine, Ottawa, ON
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(1) [Accepted - forthcoming] Lee Jones and Greta Grip. 2025. Ambient (de)fabrication: Unraveling Knit Textile Tapestries with Environmental Sounds. In ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’25), November 10–11, 2025, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3694907.3765941
(2) [Accepted - forthcoming] Lee Jones, Greta Grip, and Shanel Wu. 2025. Interactive Yarn Bombing: Creating a Pop-up E-textile Installation on the History of Yarn Bombing. In ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’25), November 10–11, 2025, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3694907.3765947
(3) Lee Jones, Greta Grip, GHY Cheung, and Sara Nabil. 2025. “It’s Being Unmade!”: Reflections on the Unraveling and (de)fabrication of Machine-Knit Textile Tapestries. In Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’25), March 4–7, 2025, Bordeaux / Talence, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3704948
(4) Lee Jones, Greta Grip, Erin Kennedy, and Sara Nabil. 2024. A Year of Interaction Around Town: Gathering Traces with an Interactive Knitting Machine and Community Stitch Markers. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24), July 1-5, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660736
(5) Lee Jones, Greta Grip, Boris Kourtoukov, Varvara Guljajeva, Mar Canet Sola, and Sara Nabil. 2024. Knitting Interactive Spaces: Fabricating Data Physicalizations of Local Community Visitors with Circular Knitting Machines. In Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24), February 11–14, 2024, Cork, Ireland. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633359
(6) Lee Jones, Greta Grip, Sara Nabil. 2023. Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve: Using Digital Knitting Machines to Craft Wearable Biodata Portraits. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), July 10–14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596007
(7) Lee Jones, Greta Grip, and Boris Kourtoukov. 2022. The Life of a Building: Machine Knitting a Year of Visitor Data and Online Community Participation During a Pandemic. In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’22), February 13–16, 2022, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, LINK
RESIDENCIES
2023- Beyond the Bar Graph, Arts Etobicoke, Etobicoke, ON
2023- Video Pool: Media Art + Technology Residency (MATR), Winnipeg, MB LINK
2022- Wandering Art Station, Union Gallery, Kingston, ON
2021-2022 - Critical Mass Art Leaders Artist Residency, Port Hope, ON
2021-2022 - Ferment AI Artist Residency, Toronto, ON
GRANTS
2025 Ontario Arts Council: Exhibition Assistance Grant -Project title: Nature, Being & Technology: International Contemporary Textile & Fibre Art Symposium
2024 City Of Ottawa: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists -Project title: Touch Memories: Textiles that Remember
2023 City Of Ottawa: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists -Project title: Unraveling
2022 City Of Ottawa: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists -Project title: Unraveling: It’s Up To You
2021 City Of Ottawa: Creation and Production Fund for Professional Artists -Project title: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Bio-data Portraits with Smart Textiles
2021 Canadian Council for the Arts: Research and Create Grant -Project title: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve: Bio-data Portraits with Smart Textiles
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON; Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB; Critical Mass, Port Hope, ON; Mississippi Textile Museum, ON
CONFERENCE
2023 The Life of a Building, The Data Gathering Conference, Galleries Ontario Galleries, Toronto ON LINK
REVIEWS
June 25, 2025, Come Undone at Soft Sensing, Modern Fuel’s New Exhibition, The Journal: Queens University LINK
WORKSHOPS
2025 Introduction to E-textiles, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
2023 Introduction to E-textiles, Struts, Sackville, NB
2023 Introduction to E-textiles, Manitoba Craft Council, Winnipeg, MB
2022 Introduction to E-textiles, Union Gallery, Kingston, ON
2022 Knit Your Data, Critical Mass, Port Hope, ON (virtual workshop)
2022 Introduction to E-textiles, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2021 Introduction to E-textiles, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Greta Grip - Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1998 Masters of Art Conservation, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, ON
COLLECTIVES
2023 -currently -44.4 Mothers/Artists Collective LINK
2022 -Synectic Assembly (AI Collective)
2019 -currently -Everyday E-Textiles with Lee Jones LINK
2019-2020 -Der Moment @DerMomentThree
2016-2018 -Monsters & Greta Grip: The Regretta Machine #theregrettamachine LINK
REPRESENTED -Ottawa Art Gallery @ the Annex LINK
ARTIST RESIDENCY 2020 - Diefenbunker, Carp, ON LINK LINK LINK LINK
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Art Bank, ON; City of Ottawa, ON; Diefendbunker, Carp, ON; Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, ON; Private Collections.
JURIES Diefenbunker, SPAO, City of Ottawa Art Collection
FAIRES
2019 -This is a Thing: International Processing Day for Creative Coding @Artengine, Ottawa, ON LINK
2018 - Maker Faire, Ottawa, ON LINK
2016 - Maker Faire, Ottawa, ON LINK
2016 - Maker Space North, Ottawa ON LINK
PUBLIC ART
2022 - I Am, Welcome Back Community Art Crawl, (Invited) Organized by Christos Pantieras in conjunction with The City of Ottawa and Third Wave Creative
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 - New Knits at Le Germain Hotel, Ottawa, ON
2020 - Containment: Knit Your .--.[P]art, Artist in Residency at Diefenbunker, Carp, ON LINK
2016 - From Sheep to Sweater for Hintonburg Happening at Twiss&Weber, Ottawa, ON LINK
2013 - This Code Bites, The Tooth Gallery, Ottawa, ON -Curated by Cristina Martinez
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Resistant Fibres, Ajagemo, (commission), Art Bank, Canadian Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
2025 -Don’t Worry, I’ll Only Show You The Good Parts, (juried, CARFAC) with 44.4 Collective, Urban Art Collective, Ottawa, ON
2024 - Worth It: 2024 Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, (jurired) City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2024 - 10 Years of Art Underground, (invited) Diefenbunker, Carp, ON
2024 - Held Together, (invited) Ottawa Art Gallery Annex, Ottawa Art Gallery, ON
2024 - Nobody Sees a Flower, (invited) with 44.4 Collective, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2023 - Jinx, (invited) Wallack Galleries, Ottawa ON
2023 - Don’t Worry, I’ll Only Show You The Good Parts, (invited) with 44.4 Collective, Urban Art Collective, Ottawa, ON
2023 - Don’t Worry, I’ll Only Show You The Small Parts, (invited) with 44.4 Collective, Ottawa Miniature Gallery, Urban Art Collective, Ottawa, ON
2021 - Filtered, (invited, CARFAC) Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK.
2017 - World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 12: Yarn, (juried) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON LINK
2015 - POP FOLK T3XT1L3S, (juried) le labo, Toronto, ON LINK, LINK
2015 - POP FOLK T3XT1L3S, (juried) la galerie du nouvel-ontario, Sudbury, ON LINK
2014 - World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 9: Fibre Optics Textiles in the Digital Age, (juried) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON LINK
2014 - February Fibre Festival, (invited) Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2013 - Nature Nocturne, (invited) Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON
2012 - World of Threads Festival of Contemporary Fibre: Hard Twist 7: Touch Me Feel Me, (juried) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
AUCTIONS
2026, 2025, 2024 - The Sweetest Little Things, Struts Gallery and Owens Gallery, Sackville, NB
2025 - Sketch, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2025 - Hopewell Art Auction, Ottawa, ON
2025 (Critics Choice), 2024, 2023, 2022 - Give Art Get Art, OAG Art Auction, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2023, 2022, 2021- LUCK! Auction, Ottawa Arts Council, Ottawa, ON
PUBLICATIONS
2023 - OttawaDesign Club, Renaissance Zine 0006 / 2023: 4.4 Mother / Artist Collective Rebirths a Support System
2023 - Nosy Mag: Ottawa-Gatineau DIY Arts + Culture Magazine, June 9, 2023, Volume 3: Jinx! Knit Your Cake and Stitch it Too
PERFORMANCE
2006 - Knit-It September Issue, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
2006 - Knit-It March Issue, Library and Archives Canada, Gatineau, QC
2005 - Knit-It September Issue, Parliament Hill and National War Memorial, Ottawa ON
INSTALLATION/YARN BOMBING
2015 - Waller Street, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
2012 - Nuit Blanche, Twiss and Weber Studio, Ottawa, ON
2010 - Winterlude: Urban Cozy Project, Ottawa, ON
2010 - Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON