Alice Gillingham

Alice Gillingham creates textiles based around the beauty of the British countryside and all the animals and creatures within it, creating stories and scenes in her own illustrative style.

Her working style stems from a childhood love for embroidery and investigating ways that these techniques can be developed and combined with other processes such as fabric manipulation and print. Alice often uses found or used materials within her work such as vintage embroideries as she loves the way they add their own story and history to her pieces. The imagery for her work is all hand drawn in her own illustrative style which she then recreates using fabric and stitch making each piece slightly different and giving the animals their own individual characters.

The way the embroidery types intermingle makes this piece really charming and quaint.

Sarah Elizabeth Walton Textiles

​​​Sarah Elizabeth Walton explores and combines print, fabric manipulation and hand and machine embroidery, layering techniques to create a range of embellished, opulent and ambiguous textile surfaces. Her sampling, based around specialised fabrics for costume creates the opportunity to explore exciting new interpretations of theatrical aesthetics. She is intrigued by the complexity and precision of conventional embroidery techniques and the challenge of creating innovative, contemporary designs. Influenced by historical and contemporary costume design, paintings and couture fashion, she employs traditional and modern techniques and materials to produce innovative fabrics.​ I love the bejeweled appearance of Sarah's work, the combination of processes give her finished fabrics a luxurious appearance.

http://www.sarahelizabethwalton.co.uk/

           

Nick Cave Art

Nick Cave is a multi-disciplinary artist crossing the borders of fashion, installation and sculpture. For example with his 'Sound suit' collection he created outfits that express movement within modern dance using noise via textures, therefore offering maximum escapism both for the wearer and the viewer. Mouth wateringly- full of embellishment.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwupTQt9zxY- Interview with Nick Cave

Priscilla Jones....YUMMY!

Priscilla Jones creates beautiful textural artwork in both 2D & 3D using freehand machine stitch to portray movement, paints and material scraps.  Making something now perceived as purposeless useful, once again. The colours and the layers of paint, material and embellishment just make her work look as edible as it's subject matter...









http://www.flickr.com/photos/38187919@N08/with/4039000841/  

V&A- Ornate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natural History Museum

Interested in lots of the forms at the Natural History museum. From shells to fossils and wings, each lend themselves to inspiration for decorative forms such as quilting and appliqued textures.

 

 

V&A Costume and Theatre- Inspiration