Awards
- 2021 Outstanding Paper from the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
- 2017 Best in Show from Bridges 2017 Art Gallery
- 2015 Outstanding Paper from the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
Art Collaborations
- Waves – Offering to the Moon – This wonderful lace sculpture by Lenka Suchanek was created using tesselace pattern 4x4_93 (which has now been given the more evocative name “waves”).
Talks and Workshops
- July 24 – Aug 1, 2021, “Designing Bobbin Lace Grounds with GroundForge”, IOLI UnConn 2.0
- June 12-13, 2021, “Design your own lace ground”, Doily Free Zone
- Jan. 30, 2019, “Computational design of lace”, Concordia University, Montreal QC
- Oct. 4-8, 2018, “Wearable TesseLace in Silk or Wire”, Ithaca Lace Conference, Ithaca NY
- Oct. 21-22, 2017, “Making TesseLace”, Ottawa Lace Guild Couvige, Ottawa ON
- April 4-6, 2016, “Introducing TesseLace”, Courtney, BC, 2016 Lace Getaway
- March 11, 2016, “Not just another pretty lace”,Victoria, BC, IdeaFest 2016
Exhibits
- Sept. 22 – Nov. 3, 2019, Various works, Abenberg Germany, SpitzenArt IV
- July 16 – July 20, 2019, Nodding Bur-Marigold, Linz, Austria, Bridges Math and Art Conference
- Sept. 23, 2018 – Jan. 6, 2019, Various works, Clinton, NJ, Lace, not Lace at Hunterdon Art Museum
- July 27 – July 31, 2017, Delle Caustiche, Waterloo, ON, Bridges Math and Art Conference
- Sept. 27 – Nov. 5, 2016, Various works, Brooklyn, NY, Technically Beautiful Exhibit at the Carol Shen Gallery
- Jan. 6-10, 2016, “Speculations”, Seattle, WA, JMM 2016 Art Exhibit
- Aug. 5-8, 2015, “Lace Orbifold *442”, Washington, D.C., MAA MathFest Centennial Celebration
- July 29 – Aug. 1, 2015, “Lace Orbifold *442”, Baltimore, Maryland, Bridges 2015 Mathematical Art Gallery
- June 27 – July 25, 2015, “Lace Orbifold *442”, Towson, Maryland, Center for the Arts, Towson University
- Jan. 2015, “Winter”, San Antonio, Texas, Art exhibit of the Joint Mathematical Meeting
- July – Nov. 2014, “Winter”, Guelph Ontario The Art of the Lacemaker
- Jan. 2014, “Cyber Rose”, Baltimore Maryland, Fibre Art exhibit of the Joint Mathematical Meeting
Articles and Media Coverage
- August 2020, Vuelta y Cruz (Twist and Cross), “Curvas que rellenan espacios (Space filling curves)”, (pages 4-8, No. 29)
- January 2020, Bulletin OIDFA, Fibonacci words, quasiperiodic patterns and lace design”, (pages 11-14, Nr. 1)
- July 2019, Die Spitze, “Spitze und Mathematik: Veronika Irvine und Tesselace” by Claudia Stein (pages 46-47, 1/2019)
- Oct. 2018, Mathematics Magazine, “Art interview: Making bobbin lace with Veronika Irvine” by Allison Henrich (pages 307-309, Vol. 91, No. 4)
- Spring 2016, Australian Lace Journal “Designing new bobbin lace grounds using maths and computer science”, (pages 11–15, Vol. 38, No. 1)
- April 2015, Globe and Mail article on STEM education
- March 2015, Vuelta y Cruz (Twist and Cross), “Matemáticas y bolillos (Mathematics and bobbin lace)” (No. 13)
- Sept. 2014, Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts interview
- May 2014, Torch, The University of Victoria Alumni magazine (page 8 of 2014 Spring Issue)
- May 2014, CBC interview with Sheryl MacKay on NXNW (starts at 23:50 in recording)
- May 2014, CFUV interview with Liz McArthur on Beyond the Jargon
- Feb. 2014, Scientific American
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