Arts Thread

Hi, I am passionate about Hand Embroidery and exploring cultural symbols, deconstructing them through media analysis. I value the diverse experiences embroidery has the potential to provide through interaction with music, cinema, and psychology. My focus is on satirical and reconstructive perspectives towards tradition in art and culture. Reinterpreting the traditional is an important element of my practice, and the adaptation of broad thread manipulation techniques is a signature style of my work. From my studies at The Royal School of Needlework, the importance of reinterpreting conventional designs through a contemporary lens became a priority. I am inspired by multi-disciplinary artists like Stanislaw Szukalski and Janina Kraupe-Swiderska to inform my work on communication in art and recontextualising hierarchies in wider society through a careful consideration of design, including those that exist in textiles as well as wider art and craft practices. My designs involve digital art, sound, textiles, and fashion, all in the context of metamodernism and contemporary theory.