Lazy Daisy Lily

2019
36 x 36 x 5 cm
Acrylic box, cotton threads, glass beads
Photos: Isobel Currie

Fly Stitch Autumn Landscape

2018
Size: 34 x 11 x 45 cm
Acrylic box, cotton threads, organza fabric, glass beads.

Exhibited in 62 Group touring exhibition ‘Ctrl/Shift’ 2018/19.

I wanted to explore the traditional and popular subject of the embroidered landscape but rendered it in a contemporary form. My inspiration was the topology of the Peak District, with its unexpected steep dales carved by water from the higher flat lands. The strong V shape of fly stitch is suggestive of valley sides, and converging and diverging stitches follow flowing curves and sculpt the three dimensional shapes of the hills and dales.

Photos: Isobel Currie

Woven Star Galaxy

2016
42 x 42 x 42 cm
Acrylic box, polyester threads, glass beads

Exhibited in ‘Making Space’ 62 Group exhibition in Macclesfield 2016 and Edinburgh 2017.

Photos: Jack Armour

Cross Stitch Column

A single stack of cross stitches rises straight up a central axis, however the angle at which the two arms of the stitch intersect changes gradually as the stitches progress up the tube.

Photos: Isobel Currie

Cross Stitch Spirals

Two rotating stacks of cross stitch are layered together. The axis of one stack remains central while the other gradually shifts from side to side as the stitching moves up the work.

Photos: Isobel Currie

Fly Stitch Sand Ripples

2014
Size: 25 x 10 x 25 cm
Acrylic box, cotton threads, organza fabric

Exhibited in 62 Group exhibition ‘Ebb and Flow’, Grimsby 2014

The ebb and flow of the tide that shapes the sand at Cleethorpes beach into sculpted ripples inspired this work which is stitched in a three dimensional interpretation of fly stitch. The sunlight playing over the sand creates ever changing shades of colour.

Photos: Isobel Currie

Point De Sorrento Shoals

2013
Size: 29 x 15 x 13 cm
Acrylic box, rayon threads, glass beads

Exhibited in 62 Group exhibition ‘Ebb and Flow’, Grimsby 2013

Shoals of bead fish ebb and flow through a point de sorrento seascape: this variation of detected buttonhole stitch is used to evoke not only the sun-dappled patterns of the sea, but also the nets in which the fish may be caught.

Photos: Isobel Currie

INTERLACED AURORA

2012
29 x 13 x 15 cm
Acrylic box, rayon and silk threads, organza fabrics
Photos: Isobel Currie

HERRINGBONE CURVE

2012 
17 x 13 x 9 cm 
Acrylic box, rayon threads 
Photos: Isobel Currie 

OR NUÉ REIMAGINED

2011
12 x 17 x 20 cm
Acrylic box, golden cord, stranded cotton and nylon monofilament

Winner of the Embroiderers’ Guild President’s Cup and Valerie Campbell Harding Prize for Innovation 2011

The Embroiderers Guild Challenge in 2011 provided me with an opportunity to explore the traditional technique of Or Nué, a form of couching, inspired by a work made by Margaret Nicholson. I reinterpreted the technique in a modern dynamic way by exploring its three dimensional spatial qualities while retaining the painstaking technical accuracy for which the technique is known.

Photos: Isobel Currie