Clair obscur serie

This art work serie invites you in a world of sensations, visions, intuitions, dreams and reality perception as an illusion. We see and perceive according to our personal filter. The collection of embroidered pieces plays with contrast, textures and volumes to materialize an intangible inner world always in movement.

Using a diversity of materials, I draw on art embroidery techniques and textile embellishment, particularly gold work and haute couture embroidery wanting to push boundaries and translate them in a personal and contemporary language.

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Title: The holes of the soul

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric and metal thread

Techniques: luneville tambour beading

62cm x 62cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Leak

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, sequins, dyed plastic beads

Techniques: needle beading in volume

62cm x 62cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Facing one’s fears

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, glitter fabric, leather, silk taffeta, metallic threads

Techniques: wrinkled fabric and leather appliqué, painted sequins, metallic thread

32cm x 32cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Freeing oneself in small doses

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, glass beads, metallic sequins

Techniques: needle beading

32cm x 32cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Ancestral memories

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, glass beads, mica powder

Techniques: needle beading and painting

32cm x 32cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Distortion

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, metallic beads, metallic fabric, crynil

Techniques: couching and bead insertion, wrinkled fabric

20 cm × 20 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: The veil of forgetting

Year: 2024

Materials: silk taffeta, vintage veil, rough purl

Techniques: sewing, gold work

20 cm × 20 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Broken heart

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, beads, and Japanese paper

Techniques: crumpled paper appliqué, needle beading

Dimensions: 20 cm × 20 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Inner light

Year: 2024

Materials: silk organza, beads, sequins, and metallic thread

Technique: luneville tambour beading

Dimensions: 20 cm × 20 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Bursting

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, glass beads, bugles, sequins

Techniques: needle beading, cut sequins

Dimensions: 20 cm × 20 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Time lines 

Year: 2024

Materials: satin fabric, gold threads, metallic thread, glass beads, silk organza

Techniques: couching, beading, textile manipulation

47 cm × 113 cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

MICROCOSM

My work grows from a curiosity about how our experiences shape us and how art can offer a space for reflection and balance.
The triptych Microcosm invites viewers to an intimate contemplation of the universal principles of life and its building blocks. I depict, across three small panels, the physiology of living beings and the homeostasis that keeps them in balance. I explore the infinitely small: bustling organisms, cells, veins, and branches that carry vital energy and the interconnected dynamics of life.

My process embraces accumulation, and repetition, creating textures and volumes that feel chaotic yet harmonious. I draw from a treasure chest of embroidery techniques, favouring gold thread and beadwork, choosing materials to magnify the subject while embracing slow, repetitive gestures as a way to resist our fast-paced world.

Title: Microsom black

Year: 2021

Materials: linen fabric, leather, viscose thread, glass and metal beads, rough pearl, sequins, metallic thread, crynil

Techniques: hand embroidery

12cm x 12cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Microsom gold

Year: 2021

Materials: linen fabric, glass and metal beads, sequins, rough pearl, metallic thread, viscose thread, gold cord, metallic ribbon

Techniques: hand embroidery

12cm x 12cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Microsom silver

Year: 2021

Materials: linen and silk fabric, cotton thread and viscose thread, glass and metal beads, sequins, metallic thread, silver cord

Techniques: hand embroidery

12cm x 12cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

Title: Osmosis

Year: 2021

Materials: linen fabric, glass beads and bugles, sequins, rough pearl, silk ribbon, metallic thread, gold pearls

Techniques: hand embroidery

12cm x 12cm

Photo credit: Anthony Mclean

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