Every Bathroom I Have Bathed In 1995-2020

This installation investigates how challenging narratives such as gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia can occupy space within the soft, queer, fleshy boundaries of wool-based craft.

Inspired by Tracey Emin’s iconic installation “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With
1963–1995,” artist Larry Weyand created the series “Every Bathroom I Have Bathed In 1995–2020,” starting with the first two woolly bathrooms they bathed in. Each item is constructed using the time-consuming, traditional rug hooking method as a foundation for textile exploration.

In the work, Weyand explores ideas of the bathroom as a private/public space, a space of self-reflection, of tension, of discomfort, of sickness, of health, of exuberance, of self-image, of disgust, or confusion.

“I question the physicality of my own body by revisiting these bathroom spaces,” the artist said. “There have been very few bathrooms where I have felt comfortable enough to take a bath in. I can count only six…I reveal my own vulnerability through the construction of these textile washrooms.”

The work addresses moments of stress, anxiety, panic, abuse, displacement, anger, sadness, the body and loss. Fictitiously real, handmade and clunky pieces express resilience through a long-term process of buildup, adaptation and repetition in cloth. It is a completed loop becoming an externalized record of compassion, understanding and self-acceptance.

Larry Weyand is a material practices artist whose work challenges the pre-conceived ideas of domesticity and gender. Fueled by their complex history with food, emotional trauma, autoethnography, queerness, and domestic spaces, Larry investigates how hard-to-swallow narratives can occupy space within the soft, fluffy, frilly dis/comfort of textile-based craft practices. Larry’s work has been presented across Canada, most recently at the Bonavista Biennale (Bonavista, NL, 2025) Rotary Arts Centre (Corner Brook, NL, 2024), The Grenfell Art Gallery (Corner Brook, 2023), The Rooms (St. John’s, NL, 2019-2020), the Art Gallery of Burlington (Burlington, ON, 202) with an upcoming show at the Nova Scotia Art Gallery in 2026.

They are the recipient of multiple Canada Council of the Arts grants and have undergone many research residencies including one with Fogo Island Arts. Having completed their MFA at Concordia University in Fibres & Material Practices, Larry is now Graduate Program Officer for Grenfell campus’ School of Fine Arts MFA program at Memorial University in Newfoundland & Labrador.