Sarah Appleton - Textile Artist Blog

Yesterday was the official opening and Private View of the Textile Textures exhibition at Walford Mill Crafts , which some of my work is featured in. I feel very pleased and privileged to be included amongst some truly talented and established names in the world of Textile Art and this has given me a great lift, personally and professionally. Sometimes as a graduate you feel a bit lost out in the 'real world; but being included in an exhibition is an undeniable step in the right direction! Here's some pictures from the gallery: An overview of my zone: The 3D beadwork sampler I wrote about previously : Another strange, alien landscape textured drawing: Deep Sea Viper hand embroidery with audio reactive LED circuit (I program and install all the lights and circuitry myself): Hullo, I eat batteries Some hand embroidery n fluff n stuff: A framed textural drawing / investigation: Laser cut bugs in the window! Note to self: make more of these Sketch book...

I've spent all my spare time in the last month creating a new piece of work for the upcoming 'Textile Textures' exhibition at  Walford Mill . It's a recreation of an old 3D beadwork sampler I made during my internship at Hand & Lock a couple of years ago, which was influenced by Science Fiction . I tried to stay as close to the original work as possible, although not having access to the same materials meant that some of it had to change; however on the whole I think it came out even better than the original and I'm really glad that I had the opportunity to make it again for what will be a great exhibition! Here's some photos of the new work: Tiny fields of alien crops Although it's inspired by outer space, this work complements my Final Major Project degree work (which was inspired by deep sea creatures) in terms of colour pallet and general aesthetics. I really like that although both these projects were influenced by entirely dif...