January/February 2021


This new year issue for January 2021 features not only Danielle Clough’s bold embroidery but the work of Kate Jenkins, Luke Haynes and Marian Bijlenga and the Gee’s Bend Quilters.  We also pay tribute to Audrey Walker’s lifelong contribution to textiles and embroidery.

features


16 SOUND & VISION

Danielle Clough's bold embroidery is the result of her interest in art, design, music and street culture

18 MATERIAL MATTERS

Cecilia Charlton draws upon her painter's eye as she reinterprets bargello for the 21st century

24 CUT OUT & KEEP

Architect-turned-artist Luke Haynes has made the art quilt his medium of choice; uniquely so

30 COLOUR CONFIDENTIAL

Artistry and colour meld perfectly into the dazzling ikat artworks fashioned by Jacob Monk

36 RETURN TO THE FOLD

Ealish Wilson combines hand crafts with digital processes creating a dialogue between old and new

42 WONDER WALL

Marian Bijlenga draws in space using a range of disperate media, creating a highly personal vocabulary of pattern and mark making

48 BLURRING BOUNDARIES V

Dr Jennifer Harris concludes her series on textiles by discussing whether the polarities between fine art, textiles and craft still remain