World of Threads Festival
Blog Archive: Fibre Artist Interviews
Since the series was launched in 2011, Dawne Rudman and Gareth Bate have been interviewing local, national or international fibre artists. We have published over 137 artist interviews to date. Join us as we create a comprehensive archive of some of the most exciting fibre artists in the world. People have subscribed from 96 countries.
Artist Interview 67: Bovey Lee
Tell us about your work? Artist: Bovey Lee Where do you get your inspiration? Bamboo Ballet, 37.5″x27″, Cut Paper, Chinese Rice Paper on Silk How did you decide on this medium? Bamboo Ballet, detail, 37.5″x27″, Cut Paper, Chinese Rice Paper on Silk Bamboo Ballet, detail, 37.5″x27″, Cut Paper, Chinese Rice Paper on Silk Please explain…
Artist Interview 66: Nell Burns
Tell us about your work? Artist Nell Burns Where do you get your inspiration? Sea Shells, work in progress, free motion embroidery on water soluble fabric tension and direction manipulation, 3″ x 1″ I used to ‘borrow’ my mum’s food colouring from the baking cupboard and paint it onto fabric to get the right colour…
Artist Interview 65: Lancelot Coar
Tell us about your work? Artist: Lancelot Coar I am very interested in the common language that underlies all materials and natural phenomena. Where do you get your inspiration? Installation at MMX with Patrick Harrop for the Transmedialle Festival in Berlin, Photo P. Harrop I have come to realize important things through the ‘lens’ of…
Artist Interview 64: Elisabetta Balasso
Tell us about your work? Artist: Elisabetta Balasso at home, wearing her mother’s bridal nightgown. Photo: Juan Lecuna. Where do you get your inspiration? The dress A LA HORA DE LA BRISA DE LA TARDE (WHEN THE AFTERNOON BREEZE WISPERS) illustrates a true dream: she was in a forest with her eyes shut, and had…
Artist Interview 63: Matthew Cox
Tell us about your work? Avatar #2, Minotaur, 17 x 19 1/2 “, 2011, Hand-embroidered x-ray. By utilizing icons there is an additional layer of redefinition. Where do you get your inspiration? Avatar #3, Buddha, 15 1/2 x 29″, 2011, Hand-embroidered x-ray. What specific historic artists have influenced your work? Avatar #1, Krishna, 2011, 14…
Artist Interview 62: Yulia Brodskaya
Tell us about your work? Artist: Yulia Brodskaya Where do you get your inspiration? Firmenich, paper/card, technique: paper quilling. How did you decide on this medium? Jungle Bird, paper/card, technique: paper quilling. Pure, paper/card, technique: paper quilling. What other mediums do you work in, and how does this inform your work? Babushka, paper/card, technique: paper…
Artist Interview 61: Lotta Helleberg
Tell us about your work? Artist: Lotta Helleberg Previous World of Threads Exhibitions Forest Floor, 2010, 21″ x 33″, leaf printed, plant dyed vintage linen, hand stitched with wool thread, photo: Peter Aaslestad Almost daily I run across something delightful – a moss clad surface, the shape of a rock, or the colour of a…
Artist Interview 60: Kit Vincent
Tell us about your work? Artist: Kit Vincent Previous World of Threads Exhibitions 401 Series: Wheels 10, 42 x 47″, cotton pimatex, hand-dyed, machine pieced and quilted 401 Series: Wheels 10, detail Texture adds interest to the surface and is something that other materials do not accomplish to the same extent. How did you decide…
Artist Interview 59: Barbara Heller
Tell us about your work? Artist: Barbara Heller. Where do you get your inspiration? Shiva Dances, 2009, 25″x37″ (63.5 x 94cm), linen warp. wool weft, woven tapestry, photo by artist How did you decide on this medium? Ozymandias, 2004, 5’2″x5’6,” linen warp. cotton and wool weft, some handspun, bones, woven tapestry, photo by Ted Clark.…
Artist Interview 58: Catherine Dormor
Tell us about your work? Artist: Catherine Dormor Previous World of Threads Exhibitions becoming … , (work in progress) 2009-2011, 7 columns each 40 x 40 x 60cm, cotton velvet, polypropylene pellets This observation also sets me off thinking about the language that derives from cloth and its production that is found in our everyday…