Amelia MacDougall Fleming makes traditional hand-hooked rugs that explore materialism, posthumanism, and a lived ethic of reciprocity. Working with traditional rug-hooking techniques from her home in the Canadian Maritimes, she uses fibers imbued with human and animal histories, such as wool, silk, and worn-to-shreds farming clothes.
Traditionally, hooked rugs are objects/artworks used to keep out winter drafts from a home's front door, literally softening the boundary between home and wilderness. MacDougall Fleming’s works aim to extends that gesture beyond the threshold of the door, softening the boundaries between humans and animals, the domestic and the feral, and narrative and material worlds.
Amelia has a BA in Geography from Mount Allison University (2021), and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Guelph.