Textiles as both a cultural and as an everyday
foundation is probably nearly as old as our species. We have expressed
ourselves as individuals, as communities as nations through fabric and stitch
across countless generations, as we do today and will do for generations to
come.
Anne Kelly shows
in her book 'Textile Folk Art', how folk art has worked as a phenomenon across
the planet, and how it has been a lasting cultural identity for many, and just
as importantly how it can be used by the individual
through self-expression in the contemporary world.
This is not a purely historical
guide to textile folk art, as good as that would be. No, there is much more to
this book. It is indeed a practical guide to understanding and producing your
own folk art.
Through a range of contemporary
and historical examples, and through comprehensive and clear guidance, Anne
gets the artist to question how they can gather personalised mementoes,
memories of self, of family, of community, and how to enmesh these encapsulated
variations of self into textile work that will become projects of personality,
of faith in the continuation of self and others.
From collage, stitchwork,
patchwork, screen printing, book making, through to fine art installations,
Textile Folk Art expands the traditions of folk art into one that can so easily
be embraced by todays contemporary artist.
Anne Kelly is a textile artist and tutor. She trained in Canada and
the UK, and is based in Kent, teaching and speaking to guilds and groups
throughout the UK. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions
internationally, including private collections in the Vatican Collection in
Rome and at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. Recently she has been a
featured gallery artist at the autumn and spring Knitting and Stitching Shows
in London, Harrogate and Dublin. She has been artist in residence at a Sussex
garden and guest artist at textile shows in Prague, Beaujolais and the Luberon.
She is on the UK’s Crafts Council Register. Anne is the co-author of Connected
Cloth and Textile Nature, also published by Batsford.
Textile Folk Art is widely
available from the specialist textile art and design publisher Batsford.
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