Art Exam Artists
Ehalill Halliste: People/Family
• Type of Artist: Textile artist
• Technique: Tapestry art
• Materials: Woollen textiles, paint and flaxen
threads.
• Culture/Home: Kohila in Estonia
• Inspiration:
• Emotion, expression, poetry, romantic
Estononian landscape, Estonian women,
environment.
• Website: http://www.ehalillhalliste.com/
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Estibaliz Hernàndez/ Pintameldia
: People/Family
Type of Artist: Textile artist, illustrator,
amatour storyteller
Technique: Digital printing, mixed media such as ink and
markers.
Materials: Printed on archival Canson Arches Velin Museum Rag paper. This paper is naturally
age-resistant and has a unique fine-grained and smooth surface.This paper is Acid-free and
Mould-Made (the finest and oldest paper making technique).
Culture/Home: Bilbao in Spain
Inspiration:
Pintameldia stands for paint my day.
Twenty years working in the music industry managing bands, founding an indie record label etc
which can be seen in her simplistic logo drawing style.
Her passion for drawing as a child.
Her own children as a parent producing story like pictures.
Website:
http://www.theworkingproof.com/page?page_name=artist_detail.html&product_vendor_id=64
http://blog.theworkingproof.com/2011/01/estibaliz-hernandez-de-miguel-i-bring.html
http://www.etsy.com/shop/pintameldia
Laura McCafferty: People
• Type of Artist: Textile artist, documentary illustrator
• Technique: Photography, drawing, appliqué, screen
printing and hand embroidery.
• Materials: Mixed-media, textiles and paper.
• Culture/Home: Born Northern Ireland, now living in Nottingham in
England.
• Inspiration:
• Reporting about ordinary people, events and stories.
• She photographs the subjects, interviews them, collects letters, texts
emails,
• Produces small studies on the subject using line drawing, fabric
appliqué, screen-print and hand-stitch.
• Website:
• http://lauramccafferty.com/
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Anne Kyrö Quinn: Abstract
Forms
Type of Artist: Textile designer, sculptural textiles
Technique: Cut, sewn and finished by hand
Materials: Luxury, textiles or felt.
Culture/Home: Britain's leading manufacturer of handcrafted interior textile.
Inspiration:
Organic forms (natural forms), simple forms and textures.
Anne Kyyrö Quinn’s sculptural approach has pioneered (started) a new genre of
interior textiles based on three-dimensional structure rather than smooth
surface ornamentation.
Function:
Hand crafted into cushions, throws, table runners, wall panels or blinds.
Used to design showrooms and retail outlets (shops interiors and window
displays).
Website:
http://www.annekyyroquinn.com/
Ptolemy Mann: Architecture
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Type of Artist: Textile designer
Technique: Ikat a hand dyed technique and woven
textiles
Materials: Mixed-media (often uses linen).
Inspiration:
Ptolemy Mann works with architects to produce textile panels for interior design which feel
3D like architectural forms.
She is inspired y line, shape and form and the geometric nature of architecture.
She is interested in colour theory and how it can alter shape and mood.
She offers architectural colour consultancy to advise others on colour application within an
environment and the psychological wellbeing within healthcare environments.
Function:
Her designs are used in interior design and is commissioned for specific domestic, corporate
and public spaces.
Clients include: London Transport, Christopher Farr, NHS, Hilton Hotel group, Cunard, KPMG,
Savills, Derwent London, Building Better Health, Land Securities Swankye Hayden Connell
Architects and Stanton Williams Architects.
Website:
http://www.ptolemymann.com/
Ingrid Sixsmith: Architecture
• Type of Artist: Textile designer
• Technique: hand woven tapestries, tufted and carved
hangings & rugs, digitally designed and printed silks
• Materials: Mixed-media (often uses silk).
• Inspiration:
• Influenced by nature, landscapes, human figure doing ordinary activities.
• Interested in the peaceful rhythm and hectic rhythm of city life
• Gains ideas from photographs that she takes of her local environment.
• Function:
• She is commissioned to produce designs for interiors, mainly healthcare
environments.
• Website:
• http://www.ingridsixsmith.com/dox/taps.html
• http://www.hiddenart.com/designer-makers/textiles/ingrid-sixsmith/
Clare Lanes: Architecture/
Memories
• Type of Artist: Textile artist
• Technique: drawing, painting and
photography and then transferred to computer where they are layered
and digitally manipulated.
• Materials: Mixed-media (fabric and paper).
• Inspiration:
• Colour, pattern, space, place and function of a building inspires her.
• Influenced by her previous career in Surveying and Architecture.
• Architectural forms and the history of buildings fascinate her.
• She is interested in how buildings seem permanent, when actually they
are always changing through age and the buildings purpose in our
forever changing modern world.
• Website:
• http://www.urban-fabric.co.uk/
Zakee Shariff: Architecture/
World Around Us
• Type of Artist: Textile and fashion designer, illustrator,
interior and product designer.
• Technique: drawings, prints, and paintings
• Materials: fabric, paper, canvas, clothing, wallpaper, album cover artwork
• Inspiration:
• Symbols of peace and love and the scenery from the world around her.
• The aim of Zakee Shariff’s work is to send out a message of peace and love to
encourage people to think more deeply about the world they live in.
• Function:
• Clothes line, which is popular world wide and has a cult following.
• London-based, she set up her studio in 1993.
• In 1996 she launched the Zakee Shariff ladies clothing collection.
• In 2001 she began another line for a younger audience called Maggie.
• Website:
• http://www.zakeeshariff.com/profile/
Bean Gilsdorf: Travel/Culture
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Type of Artist: Textile artist
Technique: collage, installations and videos
Materials: Mixed-media (paper, fabric and found materials).
Inspiration:
Uses historical and cultural items to recreate everyday images of
commercial items.
Recycles items and deconstructs them from their original form to create
stereotyped commercial American objects or values.
Her images have a narrative quality, where a story seems to be paying out
about the object.
She is inspired by the way we archive (record and keep) stories in our own
history and how we can record ideas not just through the written word but
through other means of collage, installation art and video.
Website:
• http://www.beangilsdorf.com/
Paddy Killer: Travel/Culture
• Type of Artist: Textile artist and designer, installation
artist
• Technique: Hand and machine embroidery, painting,
drawing
• Materials: Silk, satin, cotton, velvet, Indian ink, plaster, wood, ceramics, and glass.
• Inspiration:
• In the 70s she was inspired by landscape, Pre-Raphealites; the 80s ranged from
hothouses, gardens, ceramics, Renaissance painters; the 90s she was interested in
the human figure, Renaissance painters; and the 00s she was still interested in the
human figure and any artist who portrayed detail in their drawing.
• Function:
• Killer enjoys commissions as it encourages to explore new areas of art and culture.
• She has designed fashion, interior and product designs.
• Website:
• http://www.paddykillerart.co.uk/
• http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/i/interview-paddy-killer-textile-artistembroidery-designer/
Deanne Fitzpatrick: Landscape
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Type of Artist: Textile artist
Technique: Rug hooking
Materials: Wool
Inspiration:
Her 7 acres of land and old farm house.
She goes walking everyday to relax the body and mind.
The feeling of fresh air and the ever changing landscape.
Simple life away from urban culture (city life) and commercial material
objects.
• Traditional and calming technique of rug hooking.
• Website:
• http://www.hookingrugs.com/
Carol Naylor: Landscape
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Type of Artist: Textile artist
Technique: Machine embroidery
Materials: Painters canvas, rayon, cotton, woollen and metallic threads.
Inspiration:
Her work is about the exploration of surface of the fabric through her techniques like a
person would when hiking across the land.
She is concerned with the way in which land is affected by changes, such as climate and
farming.
Different methods cultures choose to farm and the way they shape the land interests her.
Experiencing the land through walking, maps and aerial photos inspire the layers and marks
in her work.
Artist Raoul Dufy’s use of dark lines over block forms, artist Paul Klee’s use of colour and
light, and the poetry of Robert Frost.
Function:
Naylor has done commissions for several Hospital Trusts in the form of wall hangings.
She makes large scale pieces as well as smaller, more intimate works.
She starts her work by producing drawings and designs before agreeing on a final image.
Website:
http://www.carolnaylor.co.uk/
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVFU.aspx?ARTISTID=6069
Helen Melvin: Landscape/ Memories
• Type of Artist: Textile artist
• Technique: Felting and machine embroidery
• Materials: Naturally dyed fleece and wool
using madder and weld.
• Inspiration:
• The British landscape and coastline.
• She enjoys the chaotic feeling of nature, the wild feeling of the wind and waves.
• Many of the landscapes she portrays in her work are from memories in her
childhood or places she has visited as an adult.
• The ancient technique of felting and naturally hand dying her materials creates an
organic feel.
• The layers of felt and machine embroidery creates the feeling of different levels in
the land.
• Website:
• http://www.fieryfelts.co.uk/index.php?option=static&page_id=895&pname=About
%20me
• http://www.helfagelf.co.uk/en/artists/helenmelvin
Sian Fenwick: Memories
• Type of Artist: Applied artist
• Technique: collage, crochet for jewellery making
• Materials: Mixed-media, collage (often found or
collected items).
• Inspiration:
• All her work comes from collected keepsakes, items or drawings on her
memories.
• She is interested in how a single item can trigger a memory or a feeling.
• She gets her inspiration from her own collected items or from gathering items
from charity shops to discover someone elses forgotten past.
• Her work is narrative (tells stories) of an individual or a moment of a persons
life.
• Function:
• She produces pieces of work for display as art as well as for wearing in the form
of jewellery.
• Website:
• http://www.sianfenwick.co.uk/index.html
Els van Baarle: Words/ Text/
Typography / Memories
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Type of Artist: Textile artist
Technique: Batik, hand dying, silk screen.
Materials: Mixed-media (resistant tough materials or paper).
Inspiration:
Her inspiration is based on antiquity and ancient times.
She is fascinated by the colours and textures of structures ravaged by wind and
weather.
This links to her method of layering waxes and dyes. Paper and threads.
The text from her work may come from rubbings of walls such as gravestones,
hinting at the history, culture or memory of a time or person.
Function:
She is commissioned to produce designs for interiors, mainly healthcare
environments.
Website:
http://www.elsvanbaarle.com/
http://wisconsinsda.blogspot.com/2011/03/fiber-artist-els-van-baarle.html
Teesha Moore: Words/ Text/ Typography
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Type of Artist: Textile artist and designer
Technique: collage, print, appliqué
Materials: Mixed-media (often uses textiles and paper).
Inspiration:
Not being allowed to watch tv as a child Moore played with materials and explored her
creativity.
Moore loves to make journals and to hand-quilt weird things narrating (telling a story)
with the objects and materials she gathers.
She is not a great painter but loves experimenting with collage, pen and fabric.
She loves the act of making and creating.
For Moore Art is about play and is the act of playing with her materials and techniques
as well as sharing this with other aspiring artists.
Function:
Her success started in designing stationery, cards and prints and she sold the business
which was called The Country Herb.
Then she started Ornamentum, a rubber stamp company.
Finally she started Zettiology based on her husband’s doodles from his journals.
Website:
http://teeshamoore.com/myjournal/pages1.html
Tilleke Schwarz: Words/ Text/
Typography
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Type of Artist: Textile designer
Technique: Embroidery, graffiti
Materials: Mixed-media (linen, ).
Inspiration:
Her Jewish background with the sad history of the Jews together with her
playful side makes work with a contrast between fun and sad.
She is inspired by Folk art and daily life.
She mixes modern techniques with traditional icons and images with a
narrative (story telling) style.
The embroidery hints at the narrative part in her work to communicate to the
audience.
The audience is allowed to try to understand the story or to create their own.
Her story like work links to how we memorise our own history through folk art
and stories.
Website:
http://www.tillekeschwarz.com/
Mary-Clare Buckle: Landscape,
Words/ Text/ Typography
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Type of Artist: Textile artist
Technique: Felting, embroidery
Materials: Fleece, silk, but also mohair wool, flax, viscose,
cotton, nylon and metallic threads, or fabrics.
Inspiration:
Started her career in jewellery design but became frustrated, she felt that felting was
much easier to use colour than jewellery design.
She either chooses to create thick pieces with great control or loose thin designs.
Her thin designs known as her floating felts, are often of landscapes, displayed away from
the wall, with light projected behind as though it were the natural light on land.
She enjoys layering her designs and uses much gold which is inspired by the elaborate
medieval enamel, caskets, tapestries and glass wear at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
She moved to Dorset in 1995 which is when she discovered felting and drew much of her
ideas from the Dorset landscape.
She also gets her ideas from pop-culture and Brit Art, taking abstract words and phrases
from song titles like the Weather Gil’s song title ‘Me’.
Website:
http://www.1-art-1.com/
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James Joyce: Words/ Text/
Typography
Type of Artist: Textile designer
Technique: Silkscreen print
Materials: Silk or paper
Inspiration:
Retro pop culture and 60s Pop Art.
He is inspired by form and bold colours found on plastic products.
He feels the bright clashing colours and everyday objects used as decoration adds humour
and fun to the interior.
Using everyday objects in their pure form in bold colours makes them appear like a logo of a
new modern style.
His work is popular with its strong hand-drawn lines, graphic shapes and references to
popular culture and products e.g. shoes, music.
Function:
He is commissioned to produce designs for interiors, products and IT screen wallpapers.
He has most recently been commissioned by John Lewis to design items for their interior
range.
Website:
http://www.jamesjoyce.co.uk/
http://www.johnlewis.com/287447/Product.aspx
Danielle Budd (Miss Budd):
Everyday Objects (Food Products)
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Type of Artist: Textile designer
Technique: Silk print
Materials: Silk, satin, leather
Inspiration:
Influenced by cosmopolitan London.
She is influenced by everyday objects such as an old cake tin, post card to a pack of cards.
The items she references in her designs often link to a memory.
1950s movie star style textiles and fashion accessories that had images of peoples favourite
consumer items repeated all over as a pattern.
Function:
She designs for fashion, interiors and products. She mostly designs shoes, bags and purses.
In London she has designed for Harrods, Harvey Nicholls, Fenwicks, House of Frasier and has
her own store in London called Miss Budd.
Website:
http://www.missbudd.com/another.html
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/craft-directory/makers/view/?guid=d599f3fa-5b1345&maker_ref=607&page=18&from_page=/craftdirectory/makers/list/&sortby=name&sortdir=asc/
Poppy Treffry: Everyday
Objects (Food Products)
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Type of Artist: Textile designers
Technique: Appliqué, machine and hand embroidery
Materials: Mixed-media (range of fabrics).
Inspiration:
Poppy Treffery started as one person designing in 2004, now they are a small
company of eight designers under the name.
They are based outside Newlyn, a busy, messy, industrious fishing village in the far
west of Cornwall.
Textiles and fishing are popular trades in the town and the company are continuing
the tradition on as a group.
The products are inspired by their beautiful surroundings and other towns trade,
fishing.
Function:
The small company make fashion accessories, interior and product designs.
They most notably make; bags, purses, journals, pictures in frames, tea cosies.
Website:
http://www.poppytreffry.co.uk/
Susan Taber: Everyday
Objects (2D and 3D)
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Type of Artist: Fibre artist
Technique: Collage and machine embroidery.
Materials: Mixed-media (recycled paper and fabric, often uses muslin).
Inspiration:
She is a Professor of Design (Fashion & Textiles) at the University of California Davis.
She recycles text and materials to create her designs of everyday objects linking to
memories.
In recycling and cutting up the text it creates broken up fragmented ideas for the
audience to re-read and create their own story from.
She will often choose a theme like shoes to narrate (tell a story) through and the
audience then can make their own decisions on the meaning.
In using old materials, she hopes some of the older members of the audience will
connect their ideas to a past memory whilst others can create and be part of a new
story with the recycled materials giving them meaning and purpose again.
Website:
http://www.suta.com/
http://www.suta.com/fragment/index.html