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]]>Barragao initially got her degree in fashion design and worked in the field for six years. During that time, she realized that she wanted to learn more about textiles and explore handcrafts rather than continue pursuing a career in traditional fashion.
Her artistic journey led her to work as a textile designer in an artisanal rugs factory and take on various textile-related projects that piqued her interest. Then in 2020, she decided to open her own studio and focus on making her inspiring textile installations.
“I now feel that I can not only be more connected with myself but also be closer to the environment that inspires me and to the people I love, my family,” she explains.
Barragao mostly uses recycled yarns in an effort to send an ecological message and highlight the negative effect human activity has on the environment. Her works have been displayed in art galleries across the world, including Portugal, France, the United States, and the UK. The artist also frequently shares them on social media. Check out some of her creations below.
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]]>Based in Melbourne, Australia, McKellar found a way to combine her passions through her work as a graphic designer and illustrator. A lot of her projects feature naturalistic elements: elements like floral patterns and cartoon-like animals.
“I grew up watching Disney and more recently Studio Ghibli and reading picture books like Beatrix Potter stories,” shared McKellar in an interview with Pikaland
She then explained that these cultural references influence her chosen subjects and themes. These themes include “anthropomorphism (animals adopting human characteristics), humans with animal features and human interacting with animals.”
“I am very interested in the relationship and I very strongly believe animals should be given a voice,” she adds. “This is the reason I express these concepts in my work. It does make me smile looking at an illustration of a hare wearing a cable knit jumper or a gorgeous girl with a birds nest for hair!”
While most of her work requires a more functional approach (projects that include art direction, print, packaging, branding, and lettering), McKellar allows herself some room for experimentation with her personal projects. These projects might incorporate other mediums like embroidery, watercolors, and collage work.
Follow her on Instagram for more!
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]]>Kozlowska became interested in fiber art and embroidery in 2017. Being a huge fan of pop art, she started using her newly acquired skills to make textile food, household items, and various objects that most of us have sitting around our houses.
According to Kozlowska, she draws the inspiration for her pieces from “the reality that surrounds me, consumerism and everyday objects.”
“My artwork is intimately connected to daily life, social and mass media contexts which in turn have helped define not only the meaning of my artworks but also me as an artist,” Kozlowska shares on her website.
Kozlowska’s embroidery pop art has been shown in a number of galleries and museums across Europe and the United States, including The LAM museum and Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery.
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]]>However, one contemporary textile artist that stands high above the rest is Judit Just.
Originally from Barcelona and currently based in Asheville, Just’s training includes fashion design, sculpture, and textile art, with a special focus on weaving and embroidery. According to Just, she’s been elbows deep in textile ever since she was a little girl as her mother used to weave and sew all the time.
These days, Just’s wall hangings, sold on her etsy shop and shared on her eye-popping Instagram page, stand out not only for her unique weaving technique but for their vibrant colors.
Her work is mostly the result of trial and error, with room for improvising: “Most of my tapestries are just an involuntary result of an improvisation, a dance with colors and materials,” she admitted in an interview with Colossal. “I like to let myself flow and see what it transforms into afterwards.”
Her unique creative process incorporates old weaving techniques and vintage threads. Depending on the type of wall hanging, Just weaves her tapestries with rye knots created either on a lap loom or an eight-harness table loom.
“Once I finish and approve one design, I keep the original in my studio to reproduce it in different color variations,” she explains. “Then I redo them and make them evolve and metamorphose into other creations.”
Prepare to fall in love with a woven wall hanging!
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]]>Combining sculpture, painting, and textile, her work incorporates techniques used in other mediums, together with embroidery and textile art.
Comparing her work to painting, the Finnish artist explains that rather than paint, she uses fiber. Jokinen then uses stitching to form “drawn” lines and rice starch as a binder.
“I am interested in all techniques except printing,” Jokinen told Textile Artist. “My favorite techniques employ fibers and yarns.”
Her unique treatment of fiber is further enhanced by her chosen subjects and themes. A common theme throughout her work is the human body, creating vein-like structures that highlight the fragility of our bodies and limbs.
In order to create each piece, much preparation is needed beforehand. This preparation of fibers, says Jokinen can be compared to the process of mixing paint.
“After preparing the materials I start to ‘draw’ and ‘paint’ with the fibers,” she explains. “I have a rough sketch for the outline but in practice, the work is like painting and drawing, only with fibers. I add stitching to keep the fibers together and emphasize the image with ‘drawing’ and colors.”
The end result, albeit sometimes alarming, demands your attention.
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this is a commission for a collector in New York.If her weaves were an emotion they would ooze with nostalgia. Inspired by vintage textiles, traditional costuming, modern art, and the natural world, her pieces are meant to be hung on the wall and admired, in all their tactility.
Dividing her time between Melbourne, Australia and Brooklyn, NY, Moodie designs and creates woven wall hangings, develops weaving kits, and teaches workshops. “I love what I do,” she says. “I have brought on people who are invested in the vision, and we work together to make sure everyone is feeling happy and secure at each point of change. We really feel like a family.”
With features in New York Magazine, Anthology, and O Magazine; as well as more than 120k followers on Instagram, her community of weavers is slowly (but surely!) growing. You can also acquire her work on Etsy and through online shops and boutiques around the country.
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]]>Textile Lucy Poskitt is prepared to teach us what it takes. Based in Victoria, BC, she teaches weaving workshops across Canada, but you can also be inspired from afar by following her Instagram page.
Working with a looser and more experimental hand, Poskitt draws inspiration from local landscapes and lore and works with the belief that with the proper techniques under your belt you can confidently create and explore your own style.
According to Poskitt, workshop materials and supplies are locally sourced or handmade when possible.”Most of my professional work is made with traditional materials–wool, linen, and cotton yarn,” she noted in an interview with KOEL Stories. “When I’m creatively stuck or have time to play around, I really enjoy more unusual, less traditional fibers–horsehair, leather scraps, paper, ropes and trims, wood veneer, mylar… you name it!”
Her techniques include frame-loom weaving—a style of weaving that is fast to set up, easy to use, and portable. According to her website, this technique is most often used to make tapestry-style weavings, ie – decorative art pieces that will hang on the wall as art when completed – but looms can also be used for making small pieces that could be used as jewellery, placemats, coasters, a bit of fabric to use as a panel on a cushion, and more.
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]]>Using textiles has been around for centuries, but the ambitious Gwyer is interested in defining a new purpose for it. “The thread itself first attracted me to textile art…I love its heritage and feel passionately that textile art is too often overlooked in the art world. I wanted to play a small part in changing that,” she shared during her interview with TextileArtist.org. But arts & crafts have been in her genes for decades, too!
it’s back to #threadpainting this week. I’ve had to add some new #dmcthreads shades as I’m working in lots of neutrals which I don’t often work in. The piano corner in photo 2 is all I can share currently. I hope you are all keeping safe and well 
- to be in with a chance of winning a #ladygaga pendant hand stitched by myself and a Gaga greetings card 
Ever since Gwyer was little, she knew she wanted to be an artist. “I grew up around lots of crafting. My maternal Grandfather was a wood carver; I used to love spending time in his workshop and this is where I first learned how to work in three dimensions,” Gwyer explained. Her passions as a child lead her to follow a career path in 2008. And along the way, she’s picked up her own unique style of art to share with the world.
Day 4 of #aprilforartists2020 is preferred media 
Beads, beads, charms, beads, thread and beads 
#beadaddict #beadembroidery #handembroidery #embellishments #embroideryart #beadart #ombre #modernembroiderymovement #blingedup #aprilforartistsGwyer’s artwork is based on combining vibrant and colorful threading with beautiful beads and charms, in order to recreate images of people or famous artwork, in her own style.
Her process isn’t necessarily complex, but there’s no doubt that a heavy helping of patience is needed. Even though she sketches her designs on canvas in advanced, her secret to her beautiful work is to always start with the eyes, in order to keep the proportion accurate throughout the design.
To view more of her magnificent artwork, check out her personal website here, or her Instagram sarahgwyer.
with Toby’s night feeds yet she’s one of my favourite ever pieces and her sale ensured I could keep on stitching 
I’m going to be sorting out my beads and doing a little destash soon so someone else can find some relief in #beadart #beadembroidery #modernembroiderymovement #embroideryart #contemporaryembroideryart #britishstitchers #stitchedartisart #amywinehouse #sarahgwyer #beadaddict #beadworkThe post Award-winning Artist Changes the Art of Sewing one Bead at a Time appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.
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]]>Now a celebrated textile artist in her own right, Cryer combines hand stitching with machine stitching – or as she puts it “drawing with thread and writing with stitch”. The finished result is a remarkable rendition of the classic portrait or landscape painting.
#martinlutherking #portrait #stitcheddrawing #drawnwiththread #drawings #illustration #garden #history #artistsoninstagram #embroidery“When drawing with thread, I tend to use black and a range of grey yarns on differing weights of fabric, such as cotton, canvas and linen,” Cryer explains. “Colour is added using disperse dyes which I hand print onto the drawn image after it has been stitched. This is a labour intensive process as each colour is applied separately and may be built up in layers to achieve the depth of tone or effect needed.”
Cryer’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Most recently, she took part in @tomcroftartist‘s initiative to create a free portrait of an NHS worker. See the portrait and other creations by Cryer in the gallery below.
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]]>“Making things has always been of second nature to me, and something that gave my young life some sense and focus,” shared Desloges in an interview with Textile Artist. “I first considered art as a career path once I discovered the work of the surrealists,” she recalls. “I was fascinated by its mystery and how it’s open interpretation is, more often than not, what we want it to be.”
Nowadays, much like the surrealists, Desloges’ pieces aim to explore the representation of abstract concepts, as she attempts to illustrate what doesn’t exist in a physical form. The interpretations become intimate and filled with imagination, at once vulnerable, fragile, and precious.
“Interestingly enough, my entire academic background is in sculpture,” admits Desloges. Being trained as a sculptor, she juxtaposes the materials and techniques to create an illusion of depth and to reconsider the definition of two and three-dimensional compositions. “Even though I have no academic training in textiles, playing with thread has always been something I kept doing with no intention of exhibiting my finished work,” she says.
“On presenting some of my projects to my teacher Jean-Pierre Morin, who was and still is a renowned artist in Canada, he took me aside and said something along the lines of: ‘You don’t have to become a sculptor if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to graduate if you don’t want to. You’re an artist and you should do what you feel like doing.'” Those words seem to have resonated.
Based in Toronto, Desloges has exhibited in Canada, France, and Guatemala and her work can be found in various public and private collections across Canada. But you can also follow her creative journey online, via Instagram.
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