Research 1: Artists
Mascha Mioni
“Whether I paint on paper, create an oil painting on canvas, or work on art to wear makes no difference. But through expanding the process and forming a cover for the human body, the work enters a new dimension.”
Mascha Mioni is a Swedish textile artists and Painter. She painted in oil until the early 1980s then in 1981 through 1984 she found her way to abstract work through restoring historic American quilts. By the end of the 1980s she began painting on silk and experimenting with abstracted textile work that acould be worn as a form of display. Her work has been displayed Internationally. Her work invoves abstracting the human form through her textile work and combining it with the traditional elements of oil painting.
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Description words: striking, flowing
“Pines” (2019), wool, linen, silk, fibers, copper frame, 150 x 218 centimeters.
Tammy Kanat is an Australian artist, her work consists of tapestries woven around an oval-shaped frames. Her technique uses the circular form to convey unity, inclusion, wholeness and infinity as themes in her work. Throughout her career, Kanat has explored the representation of natural forms in tapestry – the circles that refelct, coral and aerial landscape scenes. Her work is also inspired by an interest in color theory, Japanese color choices, and the work of Bauhaus textile artist Gunta Stolzl.
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Description words: cellular, nodular
Tammy Kanat
“For me, weaving projects a mood. I follow my instinct to create designs that feel balanced. I am very visual, always taking note of my surroundings and believe this is reflected in my work.”
“Textile is a soft material, very sensual and transformable. Felt especially is very interesting for making sculptures because it allows to make forms without sewing, without suture, like the organs of the human body,”
Elodie Antoine is a Belgian artist who works with felt and textiles to create her work. She understands the nature of fibers and fabric, to manipulate them in ways that produce organic and fugal like textile designs that can be anatomical in nature. Her anatomies emerge from lycra, dense felt structures, and occasionally using other soft media such as zippers. The works she creates are a reflection of the numerous tissue types found in the body, some of which are direct reflections of anatomy while others play off the organic shapes that evoke that response.
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Description words: organic, downy
Amanda Browder
Amanda Browder is a Textile artist from Montana who works with communities to create site-specific architectural instillations. Her work is made up of hundreds of yards of fabric that has been donated to her project. She uses bright colors and vivid patterns to draw from kaleidoscope like imagery to transform the space she works with. Browder works with a team of volunteers to stitch together the massive quilts to create the panels that wrap around the architecture. The goal in this is to take a familiar part of the landscape and transform it for people passing by to see it in a new light.
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Description words: Veil, Altar
"I am in love with the transformative nature of materials, and how the combination of the familiar creates abstract relationships about place. This relational objectivity generates an open-ended narrative, ambiguous situations defined by the choice of materials and work ethic. Central to the psychedelic experience, I am drawn to reinventing Pop-Art colors by exploring shifts in scale and sculptural perceptions."
Ulla Stina-Wikander
“These embroideries have been made by women and are often seen as kitsch and regarded as pretty worthless,”
Ulla Stina Wikander is a Swedish textile artist who works with needlepoint to cover over domestic household objects that pose comments on the traditional role of women and the connection of traditional needle point and womens roles in housekeeping. The items she works with include mixers, cooking utensils, sewing machines, and other objects related to womens work in the home and fits them tightly with the needle work designs. The needle points themselves are found objects from flea markets and antique stores, with needlepoint being a traditional womans art part of the attraction to the work is the anonymous individuals who made the work that now has new meaning.
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Description words: garnished, feminal
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