From my artist statement you can see that I am quite an investigational artist, and I enjoy working in a variety of media but I can't help but wonder whether my work is Fine Art or Textiles.
I find that my great control of the sewing machine creates wonderful results that wet and dry media could not produce when drawing and creating in depth studies. It is exciting that you can experiment on the sewing machine with such things as having multiple threads going through just one eye of the needle so that more ground can be covered when creating these really heavilly embroidered pieces. I suppose that my combinations of stitch and prints contain the same principles that a conventional drawing, illustration or painting has because I have physically drawn with the sewing machine.
Having developed a style and method of working that I am really passionate about I am really looking forward to working in a similar way in the future. I am still learning and progressing with my skills on the sewing machine so I am most excited about the results that I am going to produce in the future. My only issues are that sometimes with using an ordinary household sewing machine I am quite restricted to the amount of space I have to work with. For example, even though I am working to a very big scale right now if I was to learn how to use an industrial sewing machine I would have the freedom and technology to work on to such a substantial size of fabric.
Anyway this will be a future conquest as at the moment I have 14 days to finish my current project going towards a group exhibition I am doing at the Victoria Mill in Congleton! The exhibition is called 'Studio O' which I think has quite a ring to it. The exhibition is set in such a lovely space in quite an industrial environment. In my opinion it is the perfect setting for the subject matter that I drew inspiration from in the first place, this is Dreadnoughts from the First World War. I have attempted to portray both emotions and forms yet the name of this project is abit of a pun on the subject matter - I have named it 'You Sunk My Battleship'.
It was my birthday yesterday and I feel really guilty for having a good time because I have mounds of preparation to do for this, in fact I still have one more piece of work to start and finish because I have decided to make 3 rather large textiles hangings as opposed to making many small pieces of work and hanging them in multiples. There will be many images to come as I just want my work to be seen by as many people as possible in the aim that one day I can make a career out of the things that I love!
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| A section of one embroidered piece, I don't want to reveal too much until the actual exhibition though! |
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