Viktor and Rolf

http://www.loreal.com/maint-viktorandrolf.html

Jo Deeley

http://www.jodeeley.com/

UK based textile artist who studied Multi-Media Textile Design.

Artist Statement

I work with different textures and methods to create sculptural shapes and designs. I am particularly interested in making three dimensional fabrics using traditional methods, weaving, knitting, plaiting and knotting as well as more untraditional methods by folding and pressing fabric.

My ideas develop and change over different projects and are reactions to images seen and research built up in my sketchbooks. Pieces are often driven by the process or technique I am using, but I am also inspired by patterns and structures in nature as well as man-made buildings and constructions. I also use museums as a great source of information and learning which informs my work.

Walter Van Beirendonck

http://www.waltervanbeirendonck.com/

Kate Just

http://www.katejustart.blogspot.com/

Kate Just is an American-born Australian artist known for her process-based and tactile art practice involving knitted sculpture, mixed media sculpture, collage, digital print, and video.

In earlier, nature-inspired works, Just created elaborate, knitted figurative sculptures and environments to explore mythology and her own personal experiences. These included a tree with human arms and head, a woman descending into her backyard lawn, a corn field growing from a bed, and a woman turning into a laurel bush. In each, the seemingly appealing, vivid scene also communicated themes such as loss, transformation and the affinity of women with nature.

In more recent installations of mixed media sculpture and photo-collage works, Just mines archaeology, art history, symbology and religion to present viewers with a range of archetypal objects representing women's links with bodily space. These include a giant black egg hatching an ominous branch, a pink-tongued lotus plant, a triangular spider web, a group of glass vessels, collages of fictional surgical tools and a series of over-scaled clay-modelled, black keys.

Catherine Hearse

http://www.leggegallery.com/HEARSE/Hearse2.html

Emily Bartletta

http://emilybarletta.com/home.html

American based artist who obtained a B.F.A. in Fibre Arts from The Maryland Institute College of Art 2003

Artist's Statement

 

My art began as a way to filter pain out of my body through my hands. The tedious and meditative processes of crochet and embroidery helped me to be mindful and present while carrying on. Since then each day has become a project in counting the hours and my artwork has become a record for the passage of time and events that occurred therein.
The repetitive gestures, marks, and shape building techniques accumulated and combined in mass create larger works. However I try to focus on the individual movement as it is happening and not plan what a piece will look like in the end. The materials have a way they want to naturally move and grow. It is futile to try and work against them by planning. I view each object I make as a physical container instilled with the memories and experiences that occurred while it was being made. Through my art I create imaginary machines that organically grow and pattern to reference flesh, blood, muscles, cells, plants, topography, molds, and diseases.
These artworks attempt to evoke emotions relating to pain, love, loneliness, and endurance. They attempt to dislodge and find comfort in the things you cannot recover from; the things that are waiting in the dark when the quiet nighttime comes rushing in.

Lucy McRae

http://www.lucymcrae.net/

Bart Hess

http://www.barthess.nl/