A new embroidery in my ongoing series: Synchronous Hermaphrodites.
hand embroiderd on linen with cotton threads.
England’s Unicorns Sketches
Sketches for an art proposal. Hand drawn on paper with black ink and yellow cotton thread.
Plush Unicorn Hobby Horse
This plush unicorn hobby horse is made from soft woollen fabric. It’s a very simple two piece design that I’ve adapted from my earlier unicorn sketches. It’s stuffed with polyester fibres and is embellished on one side with purple thread.
I’ve created this hobby-horse as a test piece ahead of a potential performance piece using a series of similar objects.
Synchronous Hermaphrodites
This is one in an ongoing series of embroideries inspired by my research into the symbolism of the unicorn.
Further works will be posted in my online gallery as they are completed.
Each piece is hand embroidered with cotton threads onto black linen-mix fabric. The individual embroideries take approximately 50-60 hours to complete by hand.
Anamorphic Unicorns
Anamorphic Unicorn Sketch
This is a quick little sketch I roughed up at the weekend of an anamorphic unicorn.That is that the image is distorted along mutually perpendicular lines.
The effect I have been trying to achieve is something akin to that seen in Hans Holbein’s painting ‘The Amabssadors‘ In the foreground is the distorted image of a skull, a symbol of mortality. When seen from a point to the right of the picture the distortion is corrected.
When viewed from the side the distortion in my unicorn should be corrected.
Hemmed In Exhibition – MK Gallery
Hemmed In Exhibition – MK Gallery
The Hemmed in Exhibition has been hosted by MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. The exhibition was co-curated by Cheryl Montgomery, Chair of the Milton Keynes Embroiderer’s Guild and Jamie Chalmers aka Mr X-Stitch.
About the Exhibition
The Cube Gallery featured works of national and historical significance from the Embroiderer’s Guild National Collection. This included work by recognised practitioners from the mid-twentieth century such as Beryl Dean alongside more recent works by Alice Kettle.
The Middle Gallery featured work by local craftspeople from the MK Embroiderer’s Guild. Each year the Chair of the guild sets a challenge for it’s members. This year members were challenged to create a representation of Milton Keynes in 8 inches square. These panels were exhibited in the Middle Gallery alongside selected other works by members of the Milton Keynes Embroiderer’s Guild.
The work exhibited in the Long Gallery was selected by Jaime Chalmers. This included a large selection of contemporary work that pushes the boundaries of embroidery both in scale and content. One of my own unicorn porn embroideries, Circle of Life (Black), was exhibited alongside large tapestries by Erin Riley, Sarah Greaves’ embroidered bath tub and Erin Endicott’s Healing Sutras.
The exhibition finishes on Sunday 6 January 2013. You can view some more photos from the exhibition open evening on the MK Gallery website here.
www.mkgallery.org
Blue Unicorn Study
Hand embroidered on cotton-linen mix fabric with cotton threads. Dimensions: 24″ square.