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| Marian Jazmik - Gravel Path (2 vessels), Lichen 1 & Lichen 2 |
This is the third in my series of blogs about the 2019 Knitting & Stitching Show at Harrogate. Marian Jazmik's exhibition - Beyond the Surface - was fascinating. Marian takes photographs on her walks on the Lancashire moors and on her travels abroad and digitally manipulates these to reveal hidden surface textures at micro and macro scales. Fungi and lichen are of particular interest to her. Using mixed media including plastics, packaging, wood, wire and papers and using free machine embroidery & the application of heat Marian produces these amazing surface textures...
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| Marian Jazmik - Beyond the Surface |
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| Marian Jazmik - Beyond the Surface |
I was also blown away by the exhibits in the Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award. Here are just some of the fanastic entries including one by Suzette Smart who is inspired by her local landscape, birds, animals and storytelling and using collaged fabric, machine embroidery and hand stitch...
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| Suzette Smart - Draw my world in words |
Amans Eliane stitched letters to someone close to her, who was undergoing cancer treatment, on torn bedsheets . These letters were never sent but knitted up - the knitting itself indicative of the time passing during this difficult period...
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| Amans Eliane - A toi, Lettres secrete |
Ann Goddard's piece highlights the decline in the global insect population and the threat this poses to the health of the planet. Her chrysalises, some of which have been burnt, have been formed from Ugandan bark cloth...
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| Ann Goddard - On the Brink |
Caroline Bartlett uses cloth to embody memory, identity and experiences, folding backwards and forwards on itself as a metaphor for the degenerative and regenerative processes of life...
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| Caroline Bartlett - Imprint II |
Using ideas from mathematics, Marilyn Rathbone has created an artwork that determines itself from the structure she has chosen, represented by dorset buttons and joined by bugle beads...
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| Marilyn Rathbone - Self Avoiding Walk |
Susan Sami celebrates the past story and the beauty of the gradual decay of Brighton's burnt West Pier Marina using printing techniques and machine embroidery...
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| Susan Sami - Up in Smoke |
Gaining creative inspiration and materials from her allotment, Alice Fox has produced some vessels formed round apples using stitched looping. The apples dried and shrank leaving the vessel shapes...
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| Alice Fox - Apple Vessels 1-5 |
Hope you've enjoyed looking at at this brief selection of amazing textile art.
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