ABOUTForemost Fragments (2021) is a small debut collection of 12 bespoke tapestry art works: a twelve month exploration in re-cycled textiles. The collection fuses together fundamental elements of my practice (composition, form, texture, layering, stitch and colour), and marks a new era in my creative career.
Representing life and memory as a series of fragments - each fragment influenced by and influencing the next: creating layers - a tapestry - of Stories.
Presented are 12 visual stories exploring the emotional intricacies and stories of our journeys as humans. My stories, your stories, our stories. They are all here.
ARTIST STATEMENTI have always been captivated by the ways in which people experience and perceive life, and how it might differ from my own. We progress through life acquiring a rich patina of individualised experience + consciousness.
But what does this consciousness look like? What is the texture of expectation? How muted is the colour of judgment and fear? And what shape is our joy or our pain?
Foremost Fragments (2021) intends to visualise mental narratives: a form of storytelling that I believe we can all relate to - A place to celebrate the beautiful and the broken.
PROCESS + PROVENENCEThe Details
Materials and method of make
Layers of pre-loved linen interweave and shadow each other, creating purposeful negative spaces and new forms within. Layer upon layer of acrylic paint and ‘weathering’ techniques set the layers in solid formation. An eventual haptic ‘tapestry’ is formed
100% Oeko-Tex linens and cottons, from dead-stock or re-cycled origin;
TEXTILERaw, handmade, small batch walnut and oak inks wash, made in the UK.
INKSGeometric forms overlap, underlap and interlock.
FORMSFSC certified hardwoods, made to order, by hand in the UK.
FRAMING
“My stories, your stories, our stories: they are all here.”
— Nikki Heaton