aya kakeda

aya kakeda é uma ilustradora japonesa que vive e trabalha em nova iorque.

tillekeschwarz

tillekeschwarz (1946)é uma das artistas têxteis mais importantes da atualidade.

"My work is a mixture of graphic quality, content and fooling around. The humor in my work is typical for my Jewish background: a mixture of a laugh and a tear. Folk art and daily life are great sources for inspiration. I use mixed media with a focus on embroidery on linen and on drawings and paintings.
My work can be understood as a kind of visual poetry. It is a mixture of contemporary influences, graffiti, icons, texts and traditional images from samplers. The embroidery contains narrative elements. Not really complete stories, with a beginning, a storyline, and an end. On the contrary, the narrative structures are used as a form of communication with the viewer.
The viewer is invited to decipher connections or to create them. The viewer may assemble the stories and to produce chronological and causal structures. Actually the viewer might step into the role of the "author". It can become a kind of play between the viewer and me. The work also relates to the history of humanity that is determined through stories." tillekeschwarz

freddie robins

“My cultural roots are evident in the work that I produce because my work is all about me, and my thoughts about the ‘world’ that I occupy and that cannot be separated from the culture within which I was raised and live. These cultural roots are not of over riding importance to me, or my work, but they are intrinsically linked. I am female, British and white. These definitions are listed in order of importance to me. I am often told that my work is very ‘English’, I take this to mean ‘British’ as people from outside of the UK often do not know that there is a difference! I feel that this ‘Britishness’ is expressed through my use of humour, irony and subversion. My cultural roots are also expressed through my use of materials, predominately wool, use of colour and my employment of knitting. My work conveys multi-layered messages and meanings. I can imagine that these are sometimes meaningless to other cultures. The titles of my works are important and I often employ text within the works. The meanings of these works are obviously completely lost if you do not read English.”

www.freddierobins.com

shelly goldsmith

Shelly Goldsmith é uma das mais importantes artistas têxteis da Inglaterra. Em 2002 venceu o Jerwood Prize na categoria tecidos. A artista tem exibido em grandes museus e galerias ao redor do mundo (Inglaterra, Europa, USA, Japão).
Um recente ensaio publicado por Jane Wildgoose "Reviewing the Data, Charting the Flow" oferece uma boa visão da prática da arte têxtil especificamente no trabalho desta artista.

Neste ensaio Jane Wildgoose afirma que Shelly trás para sua prática um interesse científico ao pesquisar a biologia humana e investigar como os líquidos humanos deixam vestígios no vestuário. ela utiliza sessões de sonografia para analisar e interpretar o fluido corporal e o dna de pacientes internados, por exemplo, no Harris Birthright Research Centre for Foetal Medicine em Londres. De volta ao seu estúdio, a artista examina estas informações recolhidas à luz da sua intuição, empatia e experiência pessoal, investigando as regiões que podem existir entre as análises objetivas das datas que foram elimiados os fluidos, e dos problemas que levaram a isto, ela persistentemente interroga sobre as fragilidades da vida.

www.shellygoldsmith.com