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July 2, 2018 In Art, Textile Art

Anne Stabell

Above: Anne Stabell and her tapestry Symbiosis (Lichen)

 

Anyone who reads this blog regularly will know I’m particularly passionate about tapestry weaving so I’m thrilled to feature Anne Stabell. So much tapestry weaving is done in wool it is brilliant to see an artist who uses another medium too. Anne uses nylon as well as wool so her tapestries are partly transparent. This contrast between the solid wool and the fine nylon gives her art a delicate quality that is also strong, a bit like the nature that inspires it. See her page on this site for more of her beautiful work, or visit www.annestabell.no 

 

 

June 25, 2018 In Art, Textile Art

Shuying Wang and Madeleine Wright

       

Left: Safety Net by Madeleine Wright.     Right: Uncanny by Shuying Wang

 

I’ve often said that the beauty of textiles as a medium is the sheer diversity of what can be created. The final two artists chosen for our graduate showcase illustrate this perfectly. Madeleine Wright explores social issues through her work and Safety Net aims to raise awareness of Charles Thompson’s mission which was founded in 1892 and still helps people today offering them a ‘safety net’.

Shuying Wang uses colour, tension and different yarns to embody the creativity of knit, while exploring the concept of human environmental connections.

Visit our graduate showcase to see more.

June 11, 2018 In Art, Textile Art

Kate Whitehead

 

Kate Whitehead is the second artist to feature in our Graduate Showcase. This collection is from ‘Not From The Stork’ which challenges the traditional view of what family is. Her Family pieces are handwoven from silk and Back Cloth is printed fabric with embroidery. Kate will be exhibiting at New Designers in London from Wednesday 27th June – Saturday 30th June www.newdesigners.com

Find out more on our Graduate Showcase or visit www.kate-whitehead.co.uk.

June 4, 2018 In Art, Textile Art

GRADUATE SHOWCASE

    

 

Winnie Yeung has just completed her MA in Knitted Textiles from the Royal College of Art and is our first student in our Graduate Showcase. Find out more here

 

(Knitwear by Winnie Yeung. Photographs by Valerie Yuwen Hsieh, Styling by Alex Po)

May 21, 2018 In Uncategorized

Kenris MacLeod

We have featured quite a few textile artists who discover their passion for the medium after another career and  Kenris MacCloud is one of them. It was while studying at Edinburgh College of Art after a 15 year career with the BBC that she found her talent for machine embroidery.

“I knew I wanted to create but didn’t know what my medium was. I found myself having to do a module on stitched textiles, the idea of which appalled me due to enforced sewing lessons at school and many struggles with recalcitrant sewing machines! However, I quickly got over my previously ingrained fear and realised that I could use the sewing machine needle as a pencil and draw freehand with thread instead of lead. It felt like a revelation and I was hooked.” 

Twenty One Trees is exhibiting at Art and Vintage in Abbeyhill, Edinburgh until June 24th www.artandvintage-edinburgh.co.uk

 

 

May 14, 2018 In Art, Textile Art

Cas Holmes

Above from left: Work from Tea Flora Tales recently exhibited in Nadelwelt, Germany. The cover of the upcoming book Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media (Batsford)

 

Cas Holmes has been a textile artist for over thirty years and her work continues to be exhibited and enjoyed around the world. Her pieces grow organically from her sketchbooks where she records things that interest her, such as her local landscape. “I gather cloth, paste, colours, papers and other found materials together and build layers as I would a painting. I then cut and tear into the layers to see what’s underneath. This is then worked with further paint and machine stitching,” she explains.

This inspiring process is detailed in her new book, Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth, which is her fourth book for Batsford. A series of linked exhibitions are taking place including a one person show at Rochester Art Gallery in 2019. The natural landscape has always been important to Cas and she started Tea Flora Tales, an ongoing community project to support native habitats and wild flowers at the Knitting and Stitching Show in 2012. Supported by the Embroider’s Guild it is now in its sixth year and returns to the Knitting and Stitching Shows in the UK during Autumn.

Cas is also exhibiting at the Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham in August as part of the textile group Art Textiles Made in Britain. Busy times ahead for this inspiring artist.

 

To find out more about Cas, read her profile page here or visit www.casholmestextiles.co.uk. Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media (Batsford) is released in September 2018.