Sue King
Artist Statement – Sue King
I make art quilts, ‘telling stories’ with representational imagery through fabric and stitch. Producing my own fabrics through dyeing, painting, rusting and monoprinting, I use them as wholecloth or collaged backgrounds, to which I add further surface design elements through screen printing, stencilling and stamping, before finally employing extensive machine embroidery and quilting.
I am inspired by the natural world and the forces that shape it, my African childhood and subsequent foreign travel, plus the written word.
I am a member of the Contemporary Quilt Group (Quilters Guild of the British Isles), Eastern Region Textile Forum, and ‘all Threaded Together’.
For the exhibition ‘Changes’, I have based two pieces for the challenge ‘Decay’ on the decay of an old, derelict industrial building, trying to depict the weathered wood, rusted corrugated iron and broken windows. For the Derngate challenge I have mostly used commercial fabrics to make pieces inspired by the squares and clean lines that feature in much of the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.
I make art quilts, ‘telling stories’ with representational imagery through fabric and stitch. Producing my own fabrics through dyeing, painting, rusting and monoprinting, I use them as wholecloth or collaged backgrounds, to which I add further surface design elements through screen printing, stencilling and stamping, before finally employing extensive machine embroidery and quilting.
I am inspired by the natural world and the forces that shape it, my African childhood and subsequent foreign travel, plus the written word.
I am a member of the Contemporary Quilt Group (Quilters Guild of the British Isles), Eastern Region Textile Forum, and ‘all Threaded Together’.
For the exhibition ‘Changes’, I have based two pieces for the challenge ‘Decay’ on the decay of an old, derelict industrial building, trying to depict the weathered wood, rusted corrugated iron and broken windows. For the Derngate challenge I have mostly used commercial fabrics to make pieces inspired by the squares and clean lines that feature in much of the work of Charles Rennie Macintosh.
