Page 86 - The Digital Cloth Issue 6

The Digital Gallery

Presents

Repetition and Nature, Order and

Disorder, Perfection and Mutation

My work is about repetition and nature, had passed, and I made each person an
order and disorder, perfection and object that used cloths from the whole
mutation. I do this with stitch, small family. Binding memories and lives
pieces of thread and fabric, using together with stitch.
repetitive and organic processes to build
complex forms using simple but My recent textile explorations have

malleable rules. involved multiple textile techniques in
making embroidered in 3D. I started
The pieces here are broad selection of making little bird-things and beetles; I
my work over the last five years. Mostly became more and more interested in how
surface embroidery, some early my work could extend into space. I
manipulation into 3D space. My work is started experimenting with forms that
constantly changing as I play with ideas stood alone, played with light, created
and techniques. I build lots of samplers: shadows, interacted with the space they
multiple cloths where I extend occupied. There are some early examples
techniques and materials, that I stitch of that here too, in the embellished
together into fabric books. These for a pebbles and stones.

reference for future work, but they are
also a space to take risks and discover Thanks and enjoy,
new techniques which help take my
practice further. Michelle Hamill

Some of the pieces here are also
examples of family cloths: textile piec-
es that use scraps of cloth from family
members, especially treasured ones from
those who have passed on. When my
grandmother died, members of our
family all collected handkerchiefs of their

own, and those from Nan and Pop who