Nicky Perryman

 She is a textile artist based in the UK. She has been working as a freelance textile artist since 1988 when she graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom with a BA(hons) degree in embroidery. She has completed many private commissions, designed greeting cards for Decorum and Paper Rose, and exhibited and sold work in numerous shows. In addition to the United Kingdom she has sold work to customers as far apart as Canada, Qatar and Australia. She has also worked in the bridal-wear manufacturing and commercial embroidery industries, lectured in textiles at North East Worcestershire College and held workshops in silk painting and embroidery.

She love playing around with fabric paint, stitching both hand and machine embroidery,and love  to explore embroidery as much as she can, combining traditional hand stitching, machine embroidery (especially free motion) and cutting edge digitized embroidery.

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Liz Cooksey

Manchester based textile artist Liz Cooksey makes varied and complex work inspired by the detail of natural forms.She uses a range of hand and machine textile techniques to produce richly decorative embroideries.She uses a range of hand and machine textile techniques to produce her richly decorative floral-inspired embroideries.

                                 

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Alice Kettle

Alice Kettle is a contemporary textile/fibre artist based in the UK. She has established a unique area of practice by her use of a craft medium, consistently and on an unparalleled scale. The scale of her work belies their component parts: individual tiny stitches, which combine to form great swathes of colour, painterly backgrounds incorporating rich hues and metallic sheen.

She trained as a painter, and has work represented in many international collections.

Her stitched works, many the size of huge figurative tapestries, exploit the textures and effects made possible through the harnessing of a mechanical process to intuitive and creative ends.

Themes in her work explore the human condition, narrative and mythology. 

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Inge Jacobsen 

Inge Jacobsen is a London photographer and artist who combines the glamour’s fashion magazines with grandmother’s crochet. His work made  with the technique of cross-stitch on glossy magazines such as Vogue and Harpeer’s Bazzar is as glamour as craft and retro, and so any number of a magazine becomes unique pieces.

Inge Jacobsen is a London-based artist who takes found images sourced from women’s high fashion magazines and pornographic online content and alters them through embroidery, cutting, and collaging.Jacobsen transforms mass-consumed images into individual commentaries on fashion, gender and marketing. She has created a series consisting of cross-stitched Vogue magazine covers. Creating all of her objects by hand, the work period for one piece averages approximately 50 hours.

                                                                                                                                                                

                 

Claire Moynihan 

Claire Moynihan hand-embroiders intricate British insects and invertebrates on to small spheres of alpaca felt. The individual works are impressive, dimensional and vibrant- the creatures look as if they’ve just alighted there for the moment, ready to take off.Artist Claire Moynihan lives and works in rural Hertfordshire, England where she creates tiny sculptural insects and snails on felt balls using a variety of freeform embroidery techniques. After completing a collection of work Moynihan then organizes the pieces inside traditional entomological boxes which from a distance could almost pass for the real thing.Collected like scientific specimens, her “bug balls” are displayed in large shadow boxes, along with their scientific names.