Jordie Isaac

In Glitchy Overshot, Isaac developed the traditional star pattern and found ways to disrupt it with colour and movement, allowing the design to glitch beyond its usual borders and even pull yarn loops out of the surface. 

Through these techniques, I aimed to challenge the limits of conventional 2d weaving and expand beyond the typical frame.

Issac’s practice is not about abandoning tradition, but rather working from within it,

pushing its edges, and allowing something unexpected to emerge.

About the artist

Jordie Isaac is a visual artist based in Grande Prairie who attended Northwestern Polytechnic,

earned a Diploma in visual arts and design, and is currently enrolled at the Alberta University of the Arts, working on a BFA in Fibre and Print Media.

Isaac’s work “explores how disruption can exist within fibre.”

Learning textile practices from a Mennonite context, where pattern and structure carried

a sense of order and expectation of gender roles. Issac explores when structure and tradition begin to break, pattern changes, colour shifts, or when material no longer behaves as it’s supposed to. 

Intentional moments of disruption appear in their work, including distorting patterns, threads pulled beyond the surface, and the addition of materials that don’t belong. 

“These moments of disruption are intentional; they create tension inside the work and open it up to a new or different interpretation,” says Issac. 

“I think about this as a kind of glitch. 

“Influenced by Legacy Russell, I see the glitch as a refusal to function within systems that feel fixed or limiting.”