“Tar and Rust” 36x46cm.Hand-embroidered on hessian,cotton,linen and wool with gesso and rust.2009
Genre: 2D, textiles.
Artist statement:
My work is about reinterpreting, reinventing my experiences and my internal world in a way which I hope may trigger a response, a memory, a smile in the viewer. I love the integrity of textiles and hand-processes, particularly stitch, and I use them to make 2-dimensional, wall-based pieces, which often incorporate text and found objects, to suggest a narrative. I also make artists books with a textile dimension. Particular influences are old postcards, poetry, folk tales, the writing of Angela Carter and the work of Annette Messager and Kiki Smith. But all textile artists exert a pull for me.
Contact details:
Email: linda.litchfield@btopenworld.com
Website: www.lindalitchfield.co.uk
CV:
Foundation course in art and design at the City and Guilds of London Art School, London, SE11, 2003-2004.
BA in Textiles at Goldsmiths, University of London, 2004-2007.
Solo exhibition: “Having a grand time”, at the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles, Goldsmiths, University of London, April-May 2008.
Group exhibitions in 2008:
Café Gallery Projects annual open exhibition, Café Gallery, Southwark Park, London SE16.
Kirkdale Bookshop Xmas exhibition, London SE26.
Dulwich Picture Gallery Friends’ Exhibition, London, SE21.
Exhibitions in 2009:
Creekside Open 2009, 4 June to 21 June 2009, at APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 4SA.
Private View: Saturday 6 June 2009, 3-6pm.
www.creeksideopen.org
I am exhibiting in the “Art Quilts” category at the Festival of Quilts at Birmingham NEC, 20-23 August 2009.
www.twistedthread.com
My books can be viewed on www.artistsbooksonline.com
“Dear Jean” 33x48cm. Hand -stitched on linen with found postcard. 2008
“This England” 50x65cm.Hand-embroidered on linen.2009
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