Mr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Embroidery for Surgery
Professor Julian Ellis OBE is a recognised expert in the field of Fabric Technologies. He has carried out extensive work exploring the “rapid design and manufacture of textile surgical implants using...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Amelia Harnas
Amelia Harnas is a multimedia artist from New York, specialising in artwork involving wine stains. “I got addicted to embroidery because of a family quilt project that my grandfather started when he...
View ArticleMr X Stitch presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Kate Kretz
Kate Kretz is a textile artist from Washington, D.C. “One of the functions of art is to strip us bare, reminding us of the fragility common to every human being across continents and centuries....
View ArticleMr X Stitch presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Liza Smirnova
Liza Smirnova is a mixed media artist from Moscow. “I graduated in Moscow College of Theatre and Arts. First I was only drawing (pencil, paper and such) but then I tried working with textile and...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Blanka Amezkua
Blanka Amezkua is a mixed-media artist from Mexico. “Mexican-born female artist Blanka Amezkua has been using imagery from recycled “Sensacionales” (Mexican adult pop culture comic books) in her art...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Post – Beryl Dean
This week’s Cutting (& Stitching) Edge post features the work of Beryl Dean, one of the most significant embroiderers of the 20th Century. Beryl Dean – Reproduced with permission of The Beryl Dean...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Mother Eagle
Katie Tume, aka Mother Eagle, is an embroidery artist from the UK who specialises in hand embroidered jewellery. “I’ve been creating for Mother Eagle since 2007. There’s been several incarnations of...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Rachel Harmeyer
Rachel Harmeyer is a mixed media artist from Houston, Texas. “Within my work, I explore ideas of ephemerality and eternality: my work is the means by which I come to terms with the concept of death. “I...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Ana Teresa Barboza
Ana Teresa Barboza is a textile artist from Peru. Her portfolio of work is remarkable. In the main she uses embroidery on printed fabrics to play with assorted concepts, but she has also ventured into...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Maxine Sutton
Maxine Sutton is a textile designer from Margate, England. “If one were to imagine a workshop household, one would envision a situation where most, if not all things were made in a more imaginative and...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Candace Couse
Candace Couse is a mixed media artist from Ontario, Canada. “Predominantly working with 2D painting/drawing, installation and video, Candace Couse explores issues surrounding space, place, and the...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Mary Mazziotti
Mary M. Mazziotti is an American visual artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose practice includes painting and installation with a special interest in textiles. She exhibits at O. K. Harris Gallery...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Stitch Therapy
Emma Parker, a.k.a. Stitch Therapy, is an embroidery artist from the UK. “My work explores the darker and often hidden aspects of being human: fear, shame, abandonment, despair and the broken – with an...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Justine Aldersey-Williams
Justine Aldersey-Williams is a surface pattern and textile designer from the UK. “I have developed an eco-textile practice involving dyeing silk with wild flowers, roots and bark using shibori resist...
View ArticleMr X Stitch Presents: The Cutting (& Stitching) Edge – Nicole Briant
Nicole (Briant) Melton is an artist and graphic designer living in Chicago, USA. “Nicole received her BFA in Visual Communications and Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute...
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