Meet the Maker - Daphne Impey

 

Daphne Impey is the last remaining founder member of the Out of the Fold Group and she looked back in time when creating this piece for the 'Unfolding' exhibition

Daphne used precious pieces of previously worked embroidery, smocking and traditional patchwork, fabric manipulation combined with new pieces to create a piece entitled "Unfolding the Past" which could actually be unbuttoned and unfolded to show what lies beneath.

An ingenious interactive work

Meet the Maker - Caroline Brown

 

Caroline showed her 'Monochrome' piece again at the exhibition.

Using mostly black and white with flashes of red and lots of precious recycled lace and other textiles collected over many years

The centre-piece of our 'Unfolding Fans' display is this fantastic work by Caroline Brown who combined her fan and unfolding exhibits in this one installation entitled "Fan Fatale Incognito"

Caroline says "Most of my work uses recycled materials and is somewhat dictated by the resources I have available. A couple of year's ago a friend gave me the red fan and the lady, both charity shop finds. Both jumped into my head when the 'Fans' theme was suggested.

The body covering was influenced by the Oslo artist Hanne Friis whom I discovered in 2021. Friis' intricately sewn sculptures are created by pleating, folding and stitching all types of fabrics. 

"Fan Fatale" became "Incognito" when slight damage to the head required a covering"

Caroline will be stewarding at the exhibition on Saturday 7th October so come along and meet her in person

Meet the Maker - Dee Nicholson

 

Dee Nicholson sold her 'Monochrome' pieces at the Snape exhibition in 2022 and has made three new pieces inspired by Bury St Edmunds Abbey ruins.

Dee takes her own original photographs and then interprets these with skillful machine embroidery.

Highly recognisable to all visitors to Bury St Edmunds

This one is now sold but others are still available at the exhibition which runs until Sunday 8th October 

New work created for the 'Unfolding' series has a different interpretation of tessellated hexagons

Meet the Maker - Sarah Boardman

 

Sarah Boardman has made several pieces of work on the theme of 'Unfolding'

Sarah says " There was no specific inspiration for this piece, it just grew through play.

If you would like to see it dance, turn on your phone torch and move the light to and fro. Speed it up, slow it down, go round and round. Enjoy the play"

'Unfolding 2' shows various folded papers tumbing inside a decorated box frame.

'Hope in a dark place' by Sarah is on display as part of the 'Monochrome' series at the exhibition.

Sarah says "Sometimes life takes us through a dark valley. It can feel eternal. This piece has been in response to a particularly tough time. I felt as though I had been torn open and ripped apart. Looking back now there are some beautiful things which have grown out of the roughness"

Meet the Maker - Frances Overy

 

Frances Overy has taken inspiration from images transmitted from the James Webb Space Telescope for her 'Unfolding' exhibition piece

Frances is also inspired by space themes with her piece "Dark Side of the Moon" which is being exhibited as part of the 'Monochrome' series

Frances stays on the dark side with her fam made for the Unfolding exhibition called 'Texas Tease

The 'Unfolding' exhibition continues until Sunday 8th October 2023

Meet the Maker - Penny Evans

Penny Evans with her 'Monochrome' exhibition pieces

This series of felted lamps are inspired by the forest near her home in Norfolk.

Nuno felted using paper, print and stitch

The lamps are offered for sale at the exhibition. Penny also works to commission. Contact pennye.fibre@gmail.com

Also being exhibited as part of the 'Monochrome' series is Penny's costume inspired by the Eri silk moth

To see this spectacular work please visit the exhibition at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1PR which continues to 8th October 2023

Brand new work completed for the 'Unfolding' exhibition. Triptych called 'The Gathering Storm'

Penny says "A piece of hand dyed silk inspired this artwork of a storm approaching"

You can follow Penny on Instagram @pennye.fibreart

 

Meet the Maker - Heather Evans

 

 Heather Evans is exhibiting a series of pieces as part of the 'Unfolding' exhibition.

All made using cotton organdie with Heather's innovative use of wet cyanotype and colour toning techniques.

Heather says "I wanted to explore the properties of organdie with different folding, pleating and manipulation methods"

Detail to show the delicate folds

Heather also used the wet cyanotype technique in a different way to create her delightfully delicate fan

The 'Unfolding' exhibition continues to Sunday 8th October 2023 at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1PR

Meet the Maker - Mary McIntosh

 

Mary McIntosh exhibited her piece 'Cross Words' for the Unfolding exhibition. 

Mary says "Reading a daily newspaper to keep up with the unfolding of world events often leaves me feeling enraged by the deceits and injustices of our society. Attempting the crossword to unfold the hidden answers can help soothe the mind.  But the answers sometimes leave me seeing red"

'Cross Words' is made using paper cuttings from various daily newspapers laminated to cotton organdie before stitched letters are added and then pieced using the Pojagi technique. 

169 black and white squares

The 'Unfolding exhibition continues until Sunday 8th October at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1PR

Meet the Maker - Lynette Domoney

 

Lynette Domoney's piece for the 'Unfolding' exhibition is titled Diaspora; or nostalgia for the hardly-known

Lynette says "A light hearted look at my relationship with Scotland and especially in honour of my grandfather James Waugh Hay, son of a miner, and born near Falkirk in 1874.

He studied medicine at Glasgow University before practicing in Cornwall, New Zealand and the Isle of Ely before his early death in 1924. I hope he would have been amused. 

Lynette has used stitched imagery of motifs with links to Scotland and her grandfather.

Back of the kilt with added ribbons and beads

You can still see Lynette's 'Unfolding' piece along with work by all members of the group ON NOW at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds until 8th October 2023

 

 

Meet the maker - Phillip Rees

 

'Spirals' by Phillip Rees created for the 'Unfolding' exhibition.

Phillip says "Similar patterns at increasingly smaller scales are called self-similarity, also known as unfolding symmetry.

I came across this reference when looking at fractals as an idea for design. The spirals that form this piece are not true fractals but pleasing nevertheless.

Spirals is a combination of hand and machine embroidery enhanced with mixed media"

This detailed image shows the machine stitching

Phillip's piece for the 'Monochrome' series is a whole cloth quilt using an ethnic print.

Machine quilting and hand embellishment.

'Unfolding' exhibition is ON NOW until Sunday 8th November

10am - 4pm each day

at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds IP33 1PR