Monday, May 13, 2013

Textile Artists


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.







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