Dionne Simpson (born 1972) is a

Jamaican Canadian Jamaican-Canadians are Canadian citizens of Jamaican descent or Jamaican-born permanent residents of Canada. The population, according to Canada's 2021 Census, is 249,070. Jamaican Canadians comprise about 30% of the entire Black Canadian popu ...

textile artist based in Toronto, Ontario.

Early life and education

Simposon was born in Jamaica in 1972. She emigrated to Canada with her family as an infant. Simpson studied at the

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-s ...

in the late nineties and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2000.

Career

Simpson's work features a West African textile technique that involves pulling thread through canvas. Within the spaces the thread pulling creates she adds pigments to further embellish the canvas. In 2004 Simpson was the first national winner of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. She won the award for her piece ''Urban e_Scape 13''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Dionne 1972 births Living people Canadian people of Jamaican descent Canadian textile artists OCAD University alumni Black Canadian artists 21st-century women textile artists 21st-century textile artists 21st-century Canadian women artists