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My bed
Well it isn’t exactly Tracey Emin and my bed is not the title ,but if have finally partly put together part of my installation of embroideries titles’The worst Journey in the world ‘which was a phase coined by Whinston Chirchill […]
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Final furlong
Finally the last few days are upon us and we are all busy working and busy withthe mundane jobs such as painting the floor ,the walls and fixings on the back of the paintings.I have also filled in my risk […]
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Update
Well I have been so busy creating ,making and sewing and working on my traditional paper sketchbooks I have hardly had time until now to update my on line presence.I realise that it is important to keep up with my […]
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Childs dress,Painting and embroidery
This work was inspired by a vintage child’s dress belonging to my daughter which reminds me of dresses I had when I was a child.I have been working on this piece for quite some time as most of the work […]
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More appliqué and thoughts on displaying my work.
This work’Tippi Hedren’ was an appliquéd suit to pay homage to the actress in the film’The Birds’ by Alfred Hitchcock the work was a collaboration between Tracey Emin and Sara Lucas in the 1990’s when they ran their’shop’ which was […]
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Another painting ‘imperfection ‘
I like to record my paintings as they are made.This work is part of a body of work which goes with the other acrylic on canvas I have featured on this blog titled ‘little fat dress’This painting of a dress […]
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Eva Hesse 1936-1970
Eva Hesse was a German-Jewish artist/sculptor known for her work in materials such as latex, fibreglass and plastics.She lived in New York from an early age. Her individual style first appeared in her drawings shown in her drawings ,shown in […]
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Final Project work
The work for my final project is taking shape in the form of paintings/Stitch and a mixture of the two.One of the pieces I am currently working on is a vintage army jacket and according to research is probably a […]
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Agnes Ricter’s Jacket
During the Victorian era in Germany,an ex-seamstress and an inmate in an asylum,Agnes Ricter stitched into virtually every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.Agnes’s embroidered writing was so profuse that much of the text was hard […]
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Michael Raedecker
Michael Raedecker(B.1963) Michael Raedecker is a Dutch artist currently living and working in London.He first trained as a fashion designer studying at the Gerrit Rietreld Academies,Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie ,Amsterdam before retraining as an artist at Goldsmiths College in […]
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Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer(b1963) Ghada Amer was born in Cairo Egypt and moved to France as a child and them went to live and work in the USA. I have looked a lot at Ghada Amer in the past as I can […]
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Painting in progress (little fat dress)
As well as actually sewing I have also been working on a series of paintings with connections and continued narrative around textiles and autobiography .This piece is a large acrylic on canvas quite textured in places, but I also tried […]