Jill Flower
Textile Artist
Profile
Jill is currently a part time interior designer and has had an avid interest in stitched textiles for nearly 20 years. She achieved City & Guilds Part 1 & 2 and in 2007 completed a Diploma of Higher Education in Stitched Textiles (Distinction) from Buckinghamshire New University.
During the 3 year diploma course she pursued an interest in lace and edgings and developed the idea of combining the formality of Elizabethan ruffs and with Shakespeares’s speech ‘the seven ages of man’ from the play ‘As You Like It’.
Thus, she created three witty & light hearted pieces to form a trinity of ruffs- man, woman & child- it is a modern day interpretation using a unique manipulation of stitch and scraps of printed matter trapped into a lacy-like fabric.
Each ‘age’ is interpreted by recycling the use of magazines and newspapers - as the reading interests develop so the literature changes, for example, comics for the schoolboy, girly magazines for the young man through to weather reports and crosswords for retirement!
Following the similar theme, her new pieces of work are lacy paper ruffs depicting ‘The Circle of Life’ all showcased in perspex boxes. Developing work is a ‘Celebration Series’- smaller boxes with the lacy ruffs specifically celebrating an event such as a Christening, Anniversaries and significant Birthdays.
Qualifications
Teaching Certificate of Higher Education- Geography
City & Guilds part 1 & 2- Creative Studies & Embroidery
Diploma of Higher Education in Stitched Textiles
Licentiate of the Society of Designer Craftsmen
Memberships
Society of Designer Craftsmen
Embroiderers Guild
Haptic Art
Exhibitions
2009 - The Mall Galleries, London Society of Designer Craftsmen
2009 – Contemporary Textile Fair, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington
2008-2009 - Art of the Stitch International Open Exhibition
The Waterhall Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - UK
Deutches Textilmuseum, Krefeld –Germany
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest – Hungary
Fundacion Valentin de Madariaga MP , Seville – Spain
2008 – Haptic Art at Art Van Go Studios, Knebworth, Herts
2008 – Lychens, Cranleigh , Surrey
2008 – Graduate Showcase - Stitch and Craft Show, Olympia London
2007 Graduate Showcase – Knitting & Stitching Show
Alexandra Palace, London
RDS Dublin, Ireland
International Halls, Harrogate, Yorkshire
2004 - Victoria & Albert Museum , London - ‘Inspired to Stitch’
Contact
e-mail: jill.flower@yahoo.co.uk
Web site: www.jillflower.com
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