Kirsty Whitlock uses everyday throw away items such as newspapers, comics and supermarket carrier bags as a surface for embroidered drawings that reflect and respond to the material item she is embroidering onto. The very nature of the materials she works into the fragility of the paper or the plastic bag should not hold up under the industriousness of the sewing machine, but the layers and grids of the stitch hold the surface together.
I love the aesthetic of Whitlock’s work a newspaper literally hanging together by a thread (or lots of threads) the machine embroidery transforms the very surface it holds together. There is also a political message reflected in the work albeit in a tongue and cheek kind of way. The recycled materials a comment on throw away culture, the choice of newspaper ‘The Financial Times’ deteriorating as fast as our current economy, headlines about supermarket giant Tescos embroidered over the supermarkets plastic bags.
Kirsty Whitlock graduated in Design Crafts at De Montfort University in 2009, gaining a first class honours degree.
see more of her amazing work at www.kirstywhitlock.com
From Mrs. Textiles
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