Posts by Dawne Rudman
Artist Interview 67: Bovey Lee
Tell us about your work? Power, sacrifice and survival are the underlying themes that connect all of my cut paper works. Within the parameters of these three subjects, I create layered and dramatic narratives of paradox, tension, and conflict concerning urban and environmental issues. I hand cut each work on a single sheet of Chinese…
Read MoreArtist Interview 66: Nell Burns
Tell us about your work? During the final two years of my degree I discovered my passion, or obsession, for embroidery, in particular free motion machine embroidery. I love the textures that can be created from thread. How different a thread can look on a variety of fabrics is something that I like to explore…
Read MoreArtist Interview 65: Lancelot Coar
Tell us about your work? In my work I explore how the invisible forces that run through all materials can be expressed and inform the creation of dynamic structural systems. I am interested in understanding structures as active ‘living’ things rather than as inert objects, and the act of their creation as an event of…
Read MoreArtist Interview 64: Elisabetta Balasso
Tell us about your work? The textile part of my work consists primarily of interventions made over used dresses or clothes, previously worn by myself or some other member of my family, which subsequently become costumes of a theatrical wardrobe with their own narrative. By assembling and combining fabrics and clothing, I intend to reveal a…
Read MoreArtist Interview 63: Matthew Cox
Tell us about your work? In 2002 I began to embroider medical x-rays. The catalyst for this action was based on the idea of redefinition of materials that have an expected and clearly understood purpose. At about the same time I became attracted to medieval tapestry and medical x-rays, simply finding both to be beautiful.…
Read MoreArtist Interview 62: Yulia Brodskaya
Tell us about your work? My work uses a technique called quilling, whereby strips of paper are curled around a quill (or pen or pencil, I use a cocktail straw) and then the resulting loopy shapes are stuck onto a background surface, standing on edge. Using a variety of colours, I use the quilled strips…
Read MoreArtist Interview 61: Lotta Helleberg
Tell us about your work? I create quilts, collages, artist books and other objects using hand-printed and natural dyed fabrics and papers. The imagery originates from eco-prints, where the plants themselves release colour pigments that bond with the cloth or the paper; or leaf prints, where the leaf is coated with paint and pressed onto…
Read MoreArtist Interview 60: Kit Vincent
Tell us about your work? I make contemporary stitched art. I use a mix of surface design with traditional quilting techniques, beginning with white fabric that I dye, print and paint. The nature of fabric is that it bonds chemically with dye, the colour doesn’t sit on the surface as with paint and so it…
Read MoreArtist Interview 59: Barbara Heller
Tell us about your work? I am concerned about humanity and its relationship to the environment, both natural and man-made, and to itself. I worry that we have lost our sense of who we are and how we fit into our world. Medieval tapestries were political or religious parables clothed in classical allusions. I use…
Read MoreArtist Interview 58: Catherine Dormor
Tell us about your work? My work evolves from a broadly visual art background and so references sculpture, installation, moving images and photography, alongside textile-based concerns. It draws on Western art history, philosophy and feminist theories for its contextual references. Having come to textiles through ecclesiastical embroidery, most particularly goldwork, I have a deep commitment…
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