Carole Sabiston (born 1939) is a Canadian textile artist who lives in

Victoria, British Columbia Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. T ...

. Born in

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to George and Doris Slater, Carole, at the age of 8, moved to

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with her parents in 1948. First married to Brian Sabiston in 1961, Carole studied art education at UBC and U-Vic. In 1976 she married Jim Munro, owner of

Munro's Books Munro's Books is a large independent bookstore in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Munro's has a staff of 30 and a large children's book section. The store celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2013. Since 1984, the store has been loc ...

, a bookstore in Victoria, B.C. Her tapestries representing the four seasons decorate architecture niches and contribute to the decor that made Munro's make a list of 'Sixteen Bookstores to See Before You Die'. She has created large-scale installations for public institutions, theatre design, public ceremonies and exhibitions and has received commissions from the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the University of Victoria, the Pacific Forestry Centre, the McPherson Theatre, and mystery writer P.D. James. Sabiston won the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in 1987 (one of the largest individual visual-arts prizes in Canada, it is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts as one of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts), the Order of British Columbia, is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy (RCA), and was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal and the 125th Canada Medal. In 1995, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria. Sabiston was friends with Pulitzer Prize winning author,

Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel '' The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well a ...

, who moved down the street from Sabiston in 2000 until Shields died in 2003. As a tribute to her friend, Sabiston created a work of art that stitched together pieces of Shields' clothing. Her most recent major show was a lifetime retrospective at the

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) is an art museum located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Situated in Rockland, Victoria, the museum occupies a building complex; made up of the Spencer Mansion, and the Exhibition Galleries. The ...

. She is the mother of

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producer

Andrew Sabiston Andrew Sabiston is a multi-award nominated Canadian children's television series developer, story editor, writer and actor with over 1100 episodes to his credit. His mother is artist Carole Sabiston. Early career An early start as a stage actor ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabiston, Carole 1948 births Living people English emigrants to Canada Canadian textile artists Artists from London Artists from Victoria, British Columbia Women textile artists