Rachel will be showing woven and stitched artworks that experiment with thread as a medium for drawing, some made during a residency earlier this year at Søndre Green in Norway, supported by Norske tekstilkunstnere. Other works have developed from this point using text to consider the ways we define places materially and through language. Rooted in ideas of landscape and the experience of place, the figure has begun to feature in recent stitch drawings, the human form located in a visual space where the cloth stands in for water, land and earth.
Søndre Shoes “I’ve been making shoes as artwork for many years - the first ones were etched copper with maps, more recently they have been woven structures made with yarn and wire. The idea, simply, is that they represent a place and a moment in time, becoming shaped through the process of wearing. This particular set were made during a residency at Søndre Green in Norway earlier this year - I used old fabrics that had been on the farm for generations and some that had been woven by Kristin the owner. I created them to fit my foot (as usual) and wore them in the rivers and lakes nearby, in ice and sun.” Rachel Johnston
Philip will be showing a new collection of work expanding on ideas developed during a residency at the ‘Experimental Weave Lab’ held in the City of London and supported by the Clothworkers Company in summer 2022. The work explores the values of texture and pattern, used imaginatively and at different scales within the tradition of tapestry weaving