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Z Bends (Winter Sun)
Jackie Bennett

57 x 39.5 cm
jackietapestry@gmail.com

Z Bends is the name of a viewpoint on the Sussex Coast, between Beachy Head and Birling Gap, where you can see across the fields to Belle Tout lighthouse and Seaford Head.

I have woven in a looser style to create effects of light, colour and texture. I selected unspun jute to represent the dry, winter pasture and create the glow of the winter sunlight.

Z Bends (Winter Sun)
Jackie Bennett

On the Run
Aruna Reddy

49 x 20.2 cm
art.arunareddy@gmail.com

Based on a theme of city farms and these ducks took to me, thinking I was their lunch! I had to weave them!

On the Run
Aruna Reddy

Brexit Blues
Jane Kirby

28 x 44 cm; cotton warp, wool weft, wire, Fimo clay

In the course of 2019 I made three attempts to weave a tapestry on the theme of Brexit. Each time, I found it impossible to finish, so on the third attempt I decided to make the fact that it isn't finished part of the presentation. For the letters I have experimented with a knotting technique. I am still very much a novice weaver, but hoping that my retirement will allow me more time to practise and refine my technique.

Brexit Blues
Jane Kirby

Migrant Crisis 2016
Christine Eborall

97 x 91 cm; cotton warp, unreusable, un-recyclable packaging for the weft
christine.eborall@btinternet.com

This tapestry was woven in 2017 and is about one of the worst events of 2016: around 5,000 people drowning in the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe.

This tapestry, like all my others, is woven with discarded and usually unrecyclable packaging and other plastic materials. Here, un-reusable, un-recyclable packaging from goods bought online seemed particularly appropriate: the migrants and the plastic both start their journeys whole and full of purpose, but end up being worthless, destroyed and dumped.

Migrant Crisis 2016
Christine Eborall

Urban Reflections
Matty Smith

56 x 74 cm; cotton warp and dyed worsted wool weft
mattysmith.smith@gmail.com

Windows let us see out to the world
The world is reflected in windows
Which is the true image - looking out or looking in?

Urban Reflections was based on a photograph I had taken and then modified into a design to weave using a computer graphic programme. The complexity of the shapes and the presence of strong vertical lines both placed demands on the weaving.

Urban Reflections
Matty Smith

Perspective 1
Hilary O'Connell

29.7 x 27 cm; silk Noile, worsted wool, acrylic and silk weft
hilaryoc2017@icloud.com

I am interested in vanishing points and how, by altering the widths between the straight lines, it changes the perspective. I have used a limited colour palette of grey and ivory but have put in the colours as a hint to encourage the viewer to look deeper into the weaving.

Also, by not putting a title, the viewer can suggest their own title or understanding of what they are viewing.

Perspective 1
Hilary O'Connell

Perspective 2
Hilary O'Connell

28.5 x 26.5 cm; silk Noile, worsted wool, acrylic and silk weft
hilaryoc2017@icloud.com

I am interested in vanishing points and how, by altering the widths between the straight lines, it changes the perspective. I have used a limited colour palette of grey and ivory but have put in the colours as a hint to encourage the viewer to look deeper into the weaving.

Also, by not putting a title, the viewer can suggest their own title or understanding of what they are viewing.

Perspective 2
Hilary O'Connell