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Captivating collage: Six artists show the way – TextileArtist
Collage is a great technique for artists wanting to both celebrate and rage against life events. Each collage element can hold its own symbolic meaning, and then collectively, raise voice to emotions that are otherwise hard to express. UK artist Marcia Bennett-Male uses textile collage as her ‘art therapy’.
Textile artists inspired by nature – TextileArtist
Her abstract textile art is inspired by the shapes and textures of the natural environment, captured initially by her ‘macro-style’ photography. She is the author of Textures from Nature in Textile Art (Batsford, 2021). Artist website: www. marianjazmik.co.uk. Instagram: @marian_jazmik_textile_art.
Discover: Five contemporary embroidery artists – TextileArtist
Take Debbie Smyth, Lisa Kokin, Rosie James, Inge Jacobsen and Lindsey Gradolph, who have all found unique and personal ways to express their ideas. These makers are constantly experimenting and advancing their craft. Some are well versed in traditional techniques and materials, others are new to textiles.
Recycling in textile art: Five artists – TextileArtist
Zwia Lipkin, Dare!, 2017. 61cm x 61cm (24” x 24”). Piecing and raw-edge appliqué with machine and hand stitching. Upcycled home decor textiles, wire, wooden beads. California-based artist Zwia Lipkin grew up in Israel where she attended a high school for the arts and received a BA in Art History and East Asian Studies.
Discover: Six contemporary felt artists – TextileArtist
Her felted paintings have helped to open up a whole new world in terms of texture and depth of colour, making headway for textile art to gain recognition in the art world. Moy Mackay, The Green Hut, Elphin, 2022. 70cm x 70cm (28″ x 28″). Wet and …
Discover: Seven contemporary textile artists – TextileArtist
Meet seven contemporary textile artists who are making statements and pushing boundaries with their work. Vanessa Barragão’s love of marine life, and her distress at textile waste, encouraged her to use only waste materials for her giant coral reef sculptures. Hale Ekinci and Gurjeet Singh both tell stories: Hale uses embroidery, quilting ...
Displaying & hanging textile art – TextileArtist
Subject of a recent TextileArtist.org article and co-author of ‘Connected Cloth’ (with Cas Holmes), Anne Kelly has some experience of both curating exhibitions and submitting art to galleries solo and in groups. We’re extremely grateful to Anne for sharing her expertise in this article, which presents her practical advice for hanging textile art and aims to help you display your work as ...
Sue Hotchkis: Decadent decay – TextileArtist
Sue Hotchkis’s textile art is proudly contrarian. In a world that worships youth and the latest new thing, Sue celebrates all things falling down and falling apart. She captures the beauty only true relics can bear, glorifying all their bumps, scrapes, missing parts and other forms of neglect. You’d think pursuit of the decrepit would lead ...
Cas Holmes: From conception to creation – TextileArtist
Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s best-known textile artists with works in public and private collections. The world of travel has been a constant throughout Cas’ adult life to work and study, researching in Japan, India and Canada. As she points out in her book [easyazon_link identifier=”1849942749″ locale=”UK” tag=”wwwtextileart-21″]Stitch Stories , Batsford, 2015, that