Nancy Nicholson

 She trained graphic design at Maidstone College of Art, and went on to study fine art textiles for her masters degree at The Royal College of Art. Also  she has been designing in paper and card.Her  recent range of interactive stationery and sew kits uses her own designs as well as taking inspiration from her late mother Joan Nicholson’s work, produced in the 1960s and 1970s.

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her blog: http://nancynicholson.blogspot.co.uk/

Heike Weber

While visiting Turkey, german artist Heike Weber was fascinated by the kilim – the turkish word for carpet – and created this silicone carpet series, currently adorning the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen. The familiar characteristics of the orient manifest themselves as patterns that are carefully reproduced in stringy white silicone and carry the immanent culture of the east with them.

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Betty Morris

Betty Morris is a free-lance textile artist who trained in embroidery after an earlier career in science and teaching. She completed City & Guilds in Embroidery in 1986.

Her work is based on landscape,nature and architecture. It is often based on her "on the spot" sketches and may relate to the passage of time, "pleasing decay". She uses paints, dyes, hand and machine stitching. Her work may include applied fabrics and handmade papers.

 

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Li Hongbo

Li Hongbo, born 1974 Siping City Jilin, China, Lives and works in Beijing.Li Hongbo creates artworks as sculptural forms entirely out of paper. Taking his inspiration from the honeycomb forms created through traditional Chinese techniques often used in Chinese festive decorations and children’s toys known as ‘paper gourd’ which create story telling shapes and symbols from a stack of interconnected sheets. Li Hongbo originally started out working in an advertising company before studying at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts within the Experimental Arts Department.

Hongbo’s artworks are created using just paper and glue. Figures, portraits, trees and vases stretch out into concertina forms creating new representations through shape, pattern and texture. One such work is the installation, Ocean of Flowers(2012), the installation contains thousands of brightly coloured honeycomb shapes, set out as a magical landscape for the viewer to explore, however, when the flowers are flattened (flat packed) their shapes resemble guns such as pistols and AK 47s. The artwork is designed so that the viewer is not instantly aware of what the flowers represent, drawing the audience into something beautiful only to find out that the flowers are actually weapons of war. Experimenting with the creation of art through just one simple, everyday material, Hongbo ignites and captivates the viewers own imagination through his abstract, curving forms.

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