I managed to see an interesting exhibition called Material Evidence this week at the Menier Gallery by the group of artists called Quilt Art. Many of these artists are well known in the quilt art world, and deserve to be better recognised in the more general art world.
Sara Impey’s work focused again on the historical value of stitch, rendered in stitched text
Karina Thompson had a beautiful digitally-stitched piece, apparently made with Japanese fabrics, titled, Let Go
It was only after thinking about this piece on the way home that I realised that this was the same Karina Thompson who made the long, long, long stitched piece showing ECG traces and Doppler ultrasound images at “Cloth and Memory 2"
Christine Chester displayed an impressive paper-laminated piece based on a historical quilt.
The most moving piece for me was by Charlotte Yde, titled “The Ones That Got Away”. This is a large scale triptych, stitched on transparent cloth
It brought back memories of the work of Issam Kourbaj and Ruth Padel seen at the Islamic Gallery at the British Museum a couple of years ago.
