There seems to be a meme doing the rounds of using embroidery in contemporary art. I wrote about Kent Henricksen’s work last week and have since discovered a few more artists working this way – I will be posting about them in the coming days.
Sandrine Pelletier (via the cool hunter)
This image is from ‘wild boys’, an installation with mixed media works.
Extract from an interview with her – about her use of embroidery:
“I wanted to show the violence behind the gentleness of embroidery. I find this visual effect intriguing. I discovered by accident that it was interesting to show the back as well as the front the embroideries. It is true that the back of these portraits has a wilder appearance: the figures seem to bleed from their eyes, their flesh seem to be full of scars and their veins seem to be inflating. … The way I embroider is absolutely profane, … [and] working with a sewing machine allows me to obtain a rougher, wilder trait. I never follow the outlines attentively. Sometimes the machine jumps, or it gets stuck and these accidents can create very interesting effects. … it introduces a very physical dimension.”
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You might like this woman’s work too: http://www.gregorylindgallery.com/artists/schwarz/schwarz1.html
I love non-traditional embroidery art. And also the stuff that is more functional like what bonnieheartclyde.com does. My fiance has one of their shirts and it is so stunning.
Here is work of the great female artist Ghada Amer http://www.online.newschool.edu/iat97/johannesburg/alt_currents/amer7.GIF
I found her in the book woman artists (Uta Grosenick, 2001, Cologne) while I was sourcing for my graduating work: happiness and femality.
Unfortunally I have no time for my own blog. So I feed you.
Pls check Rosemarie Trockel, knitting/artist:
http://www.geocities.com/wntltiacnet/artdeal/PageMill_Images/rose.jpg
http://www.kunstbuchhandlung.de/katalog/v0299/p11.jpg
Thank you all for this refreshing net.
Inge
Thank you for doing this. I’ve been toying with an embroidered series for 2 years now, and I love seeing these.
check out the non profit Broadcloth that recently s born in Baltimore for more fiber art goings on. http://www.broadcloth.org
I love the portrait and I’m loving this blog too!
I use embroidery – hand and machine – in my own collage work and especially into digital paper. I love the linear quality of the line. It’s very similar to drawing but it takes on a whole different quality, a depth that just adds so much more…
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