Patch by Hilary

Patch

Creator
Hilary
Location
Devon
Story
This is a piece of needlepoint. Only the canvas has been saturated in paint and the stitching is dense, dark and not at all pretty. It’s an object and no longer a material and somehow that feels important when it comes to being taken seriously. Maybe it’ll be too much of an object to stitch into?

These were my initial thoughts about my sample for this project. I needed to transform the raw materials of an easily recognised ‘women’s craft’ (stranded cotton embroidered onto needlepoint canvas with a needle) into something that would fool the viewer into thinking it was worthy of being taken seriously, as an art object at least. Stitching into the canvas was tough, but satisfying and eventually yielded results. It felt like a metaphor for the struggle to be taken seriously in a judgemental world.

I do hope it can be sewn into though!
Rights Holder
Hilary
Rights
All rights reserved.