Embroidery Magazine  |  MayJun 20
While we are all at home, we talk to our featured textile artists about finding inspiration wherever you are and working with whatever is to hand.
American artist Diane Meyer’s work features on our cover. Originally a photographer, she missed working with her hands and began stitching into family portraits and old travel photos that were to hand, questioning all the while photography’s ability to supplant our memories.
We continue our series on Pioneers within art textiles, which highlights the work of innovative artists, by speaking to Freddie Robbins about her fascination with the medium of knit, which she describes as “the uber process” when it comes to challenging preconceptions of what art can be.
And in the first of a series of articles, leading textile curator Jennifer Harris turns the spotlight on the current explosion of interest in textiles in the contemporary art world.
We also delve into the visionary, outsider needlework of Madge Gill (1882-1961) whose story was unearthed by Sophie Dutton, editor of an exceptional new book about this overlooked artist.
Our profiled artists include Kate Whitehead, who started working with weaving, stitching, repair and found textiles several years ago and reveals how her creative practice has provided a lifeline during the difficult times and feeds her soul in better times.
Teresa Whitfield, whose pen and ink drawings of historical and contemporary lace are often mistaken for the real thing thanks to their forensic detail and astonishing likeness to the original article.
And Marilyn Rathbone, who is fascinated by the nuances between process and making, whether inspired by historical research or a mathematical conundrum, and
Finally join us for a peek inside Daisy Collingridge’s studio.
Book reviews include Tudor Textiles and Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz, and exhibition reviews of Kimono (V&A).
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