Vannier, Charlotte. Threads: Contemporary Embroidery Art, 2019 - incorporating stitch and text in my work

Annette Messager produced hand-sewn anthology of misogynistic proverbs, her collection Ma collection de proverbs, 1974, paved the way for artists such as Tracey Emin by promoting a new approach to sewing and embroidery by deliberately shifting the medium in a new, subversive direction, away from the private domestic sphere. (I like the idea of including text embroidered into my canvas or onto fabric and then applied to the canvas. I have sourced a few lines of text from lyrics, novels and a book of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy called The Worlds Wife.)

Women are too perilous and by nature, dangerous.‘

These stitches onto paper by Sharon Etgar are really exciting, I love the child-like quality and the intensity of the design. They look like colour pencil drawings. I would like to cover a canvas with stitches onto of a background, perhaps grid background or stain background.

The hand sewn lettering in Pedro Luis Soares works as retrospective commentary to the photographs. These are quite evocative as they are also purposely unskilled and yet hold the presence of the maker in them as opposed to the photographs which are devoid of person touch, staged etc.

Maria Widley also uses lettering with interesting written script. Loving the way the loose threads hang down and tangle. Also the layers of drawing, stitch and text. Similarly to Ghada Amer’s thread drawings that obscure what is behind. I am interested in this idea of obscuring.