I am a textile artist/illustrator from Cornwall who uses stitch and layering to make illustrative and decorative work, incorporating existing features and alterations on used, vintage and recycled materials. I Purposefully bruise, unstitch and stain making my work have a seemingly incomplete quality. My technique is mostly appliqué with old fabrics of different weights, stitched predominately by hand with some machine embroidery when necessary. I enjoy the inherent history of the material often finding connections between subject matter and material.
My subject matter is primarily portraits and narratives, characters and therianthropy within Folk lore. Magic realism in fabric. There is also something a little dark about my imagery, unclothed figures, stains and mad looking animals give my work an edge.
My subject matter is primarily portraits and narratives, characters and therianthropy within Folk lore. Magic realism in fabric. There is also something a little dark about my imagery, unclothed figures, stains and mad looking animals give my work an edge.
Born in Truro in 1990 I grew up in a small village called Embroidery and went to a tiny village primary school. Both my parents and grandmother where craftsmen and artists, i admired what they did and from a very young age dreamt of doing the same. I went to school in St Ives and on to Truro College where i studied Art, Textiles, History of Art and Music. I went to University College Falmouth to do my Art Foundation where i realised that fabric and all its qualities fascinated me. I spent a year at Goldsmiths College, London studying Fine Art and then three years studying Illustration at UWE, Bristol. I graduated with a first class BA Hons in 2013. I am now working in a small studio in Newlyn.
Qualifications.
Falmouth Art College (art foundation)
Art Foundation: Distinction
University of West England (Bristol) Degree
BA Illustration: First honors degree
Duty manager at The Exchange gallery, Cornwall.
Teaching textiles illustration at Truro collage and St Ives school.
Past Shows
Degree Show May 2013-June 2013
Bower Ashton, Bristol.
New Graduate show June 2013-July 2013
The old brewery, Brick lane, London.
D&AD New Blood July 2013
Spitalfields, London.
Drawing a Presence May-July 2014
Newlyn art Gallery, Cornwall.
The Contemporary Craft Festival Bovey Tracey June 5th-7th 2014
Bovey Tracey, Devon.
The Collaborators October 2014
The Exchange Gallery, Cornwall.
The Makers Market December 2014
The Exchange Gallery, Cornwall.
Get Fresh exhibition 17th January-8th March 2015
The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon
Bovey Tracey Contemporary craft Fair. June 4-7 2015
Cornwall Design fair. August 12-14 2015
Artisan at Tremenheere sculpture gardens. October 2015
Devon guild of Contemporary craftsmen, Spotlight. October-November 2015
Exchange christmas art fair. December 12th 2015
Circa 21 Winter Feast. December 14-31 2015
Bovey Tracey Contemporary craft fair. June 2016
Circa 21 May 2016
Circa 21 november 2016
Newlyn Art gallery March 2017
Publications
Selvage magazine four page spread in the November issue. 2015
Little thing Magazine Six page spread in the November issue. 2015
Sew magazine article in the January issue. 2016
Embroidery magazine. 2016
Gallerys
Blue Bramble gallery, St Ives
Artisan at the Embroidery sculpture gardens, Gulval
The makers Emporium, St Just
The Contemporary Craft Festival shop, Devon
