Artists
Jen Fenner
Works using a variety of subject matter such
as architectural shapes and natural forms. By using positive and
negative space and experimenting with line and color creates vibrant prints
and appliqued fabric designs.
Stewart Kelly
Stewart Kelly studied textiles at Liverpool John Moores
University and Manchester Metropolitan University. He works primarily with
drawing, printing processes and stitched textiles. Alongside his creative
practice, Stewart works in health and education as an artist and tutor.
Barbara Meynell
Barbara Meynell works
mainly in the medium of batik, finding inspiration from coastal and mountain
landscapes. She took part in an exhibition for the 2010 Independents and is a
member of ‘Wirral Art’ Open Studios Group and Wirral Society of Arts. She also
creates hand painted designs on silk scarves,
selling her work in local galleries and online.
Christine Toh
Christine Toh after
starting exploring a range of printing techniques, studied textiles at John
Moores university. Her work challenges the layering effects of silkscreen
printing processes often combined with stitching techniques. She has joined the
creative community at the Bluecoat in 2010.
www.christinetoh.co.uk
Yvonne Deegan
Yvonne studied Division Fashion and Textile Design in Liverpool
Inspired by beauty of nature, poetry and nostalgic memories her creative flair
lies in texture and manipulation of fabric in the main through hand, machine
embroidery and crochet. She enjoys experimentation in these and other mediums
to achieve different effects and styles in her creations, which she hopes will
give a sense of enjoyment.
Jan Bee Brown
A teller of human stories
through textiles Jan has a portfolio career crossing boundaries in the arts
from theatre and costume design and fine art textiles through education, curation
and exhibition design. A post feminist artist Jan works with felt, original
textiles and museum collections to create sculpture and installations inspired
by family secrets and long forgotten stories told by generations of women.
Susan Beck
Susan works in fibrous malleable materials like wool felt and
wood pulp to produce three dimensional figures. Through experimentation with a
combination of traditional and new techniques she takes the materials in new
directions. Her work springs from a fascination with the long and varied
cultural history of the making of human figures, and the need it reveals in us
to remake ourselves in our own image. Susan’s focus is the often ambivalent
reaction we have to objects that represent ourselves.
Sabine Kussmaul
Sabine produces delicate line drawings stitched with thread onto
transparent fabric. These drawings are placed on top of paintings, which show
soft and blended hues that merge to give subtle impressions of cloud and
ground, sky and land and fragments of buildings. Both layers are brought
together, one behind the other, to create a three-dimensional picture. The
changing surface of the Earth with its textures and colours and the shapes of
(living
and not-living) things remain a lasting inspiration to her work. She references
Architecture a lot in her images, as buildings and constructed shapes are the
ultimate expression of human engagement with the environment. It is a
fascinating challenge to work on the idea how Architecture can “carry” visual
connotations of memory, feeling and history.
Amanda Jones
Amanda studied Creative Practice at Liverpool
Hope University, focusing on making short films inspired by surreal and avant
garde styles. Since then, she has continued to develop her practice producing
short films and has recently been exploring crafts such as crochet. Recently
she filmed and collaborated Re-View Textiles day at the ‘Bed-In’ at the
Bluecoat, when artists and the public were invited to create a wall-hanging of
people’s dreams of peace.
www.redwireredwire.com
Judith Railton
Judith is using textiles and other bits and
bobs she finds lying about, Her work is about immediate responses to what is
happening on any particular day. She includes words for their meaning and
pattern, music for its sound and shapes. She has been exhibited her
work, curated fibre art shows and run workshops for almost 40 years.
Sue Boardman
Sue‘s work embraces traditional craft skill
and ideas-based art – all with a ‘make do and mend’ philosophy. She enjoys the
rich colours and textures obtained from patching and stitching textiles, and
uses a diverse range of techniques to achieve her aims. Life,landscape, and a
quirky sense of humour are her influences.
Diana Heredia
Diana Heredia studied
Interior Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg learning
different crafts from gold smithing and woodworking to printing and felting
along the way. After moving to England in 2005 she now designs and makes
products for children ranging from artwork to accessories and clothing while
staying open to interdisciplinary projects touching our living environment.
Ulrike Oeter
Ulrike creates installations of silent
melancholy. Objects and garments made of fragile transparent paper or worn
textiles build rooms between reality and dream. Oeter collects growing archives
of textiles and transient, eggshell paper: torn, crumpled, scratched, glued,
ironed, rusted, smoothed, oiled, sewn, crocheted. The new series tells the
story of childhood.
Su Chacewicz
Su Chacewicz works with Robert Bluett as part of KHARYSART, a
free thinking partnership that is involved in the expression of creative,
conceptual and therapeutic processes and projects through art and design.
Individually and together, they have explored values, ideas and experiences,
experimenting and interacting with a variety of materials and media.
Wei Gan
Wei ‘s work deals with identity in contemporary society.
Influenced by her father’s traditional ink painting, she concentrates on mixing
the new looking for the oil painting, which is based on the knowledge of Asia
and Western art history and her personal understanding. Sometimes she prefers
working in 3 D , there is a strong attention pushing her looking where she
comes from and who she is.
Janet Wilkinson
Janet works with textiles
making hand printed and constructed pieces. These are influenced by her
passions for collecting vintage textiles and for the history of stitch. A vital
part of her creative process is the physical making of the work, a dialogue
between hands and materials. The artwork tells stories, evoking memories and
strong personal responses. Janet also creates on the page using drawing, print
and collage.
Isabel Ferrand
Born in Portugal, Isabel lives and works in the Netherlands.
Could
the same activities women had used in life be transformed into the means of
making art?
Judy Chicago, Through the flowers: My struggle as a Women Artist, 1975
Katie Whitfield
Katie is a printmaker who
works with intaglio techniques, fabrics and natural materials. Concerned with
the passing of time and how it affects works of art, Katie subtly manipulates
this inevitable process to create pieces that evolve even after completion.
