Stitch Magazine Issue 155 has a brilliant article featuring the 2024/5 Embroiderers’ Guild Members’ Challenge winners.
In this year’s Challenge I was delighted to be awarded the Artistic Directors Award for Innovation for my piece ‘Flowers, Leaves and Berries’.
Flowers Leaves and Berries awarded ‘The Artists Director’s Award for Innovation’
Flowers, Leaves and Berries
Stitch Magazine Issue 155
It’s a beautifully curated article.
Alongside each artwork you’ll find a paragraph or two written by the artist, describing how they created their designs based on the theme of ‘Colour Rhythms’.
I’m delighted to share that images of the Unstitched Coif Project panels are now available to view in the V&A archives.
Each piece has been carefully photographed front and back and the full collection can be viewed via this link.
Unstitched Coif Project
Unstitched Coif Project
The Unstitched Coif.
The project is a collaboration between the V&A and curator Toni Buckby a PhD student.
The project is based on an original 17th century coif in the V&A archives in London. This coif was partially stitched and then unpicked, but the pattern is still clearly visible consisting of hand drawn flowers and whimsical bugs.
Thank you to Toni Buckby and the V&A curators for making the project possible.
Discover more about the story behind this artwork and the Unstitched Coif Project by following this link.
I’m please to share that ‘Summer ’76‘ has been selected for the ArtCan ‘Growing Under One Sky’ exhibition, part of the “Creative Climate Fest” at Scolton Manor, Bethlehem, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales SA62 5QL from July 5 – August 31, 2025.
Summer ’76 – part of the ArtCan ‘Growing Under One Sky exhibition
“We strive to grow, judging progress, ambition and success by the increase of productivity and output. However, we have reached a stage where year on year economic growth as it stands, is beginning to suffocate us under unmanageable quantities of waste and residue. Our obsession with growth has also given us climate change, and an increase in weather anomalies…..We need to grow better habits and reconnect with our own importance. Every choice we make locally, has an impact globally. We cannot exist as individuals, as everything we do inextricably links us to people and the environment anywhere in the world. Water we pollute here, will affect the health of fish that migrate to other parts of the world. How we shop influences livelihoods and people we will never even meet…..Growing Under One Sky asks artists to examine what the act of growing means within this context. ” ~ ArtCan curators.
Thank you to the following curators for selecting my work for exhibition.
“ArtCan Green Team – Lawrence Mathias, Catherine Fenton, Hannah Pratt, Cat Coulter, Elly Platt, curating Growing Under One Sky is part of our Green Team commitment to bring opportunities to like minded artists, offering a platform to express their voices regarding environmental issues and solutions.” ~ ArtCan.
