Fabric Sculpture

These works are mostly made from pre painted canvas, scavenged from abandoned/unfinished paintings which I kept rolled up, knowing that I would find a use for them one day.

I saw a collage by Lee Krasner, (‘City Verticals’) who was painter Jackson Pollock’s wife, purely be chance, and it spoke to me as something to which I had a connection – It somehow looked like printed fabric, and I knew that I had the raw materials to make an ‘homage’ to her.

So I dug out the rolled up canvases, and made my homage – I just had to get it ‘off my chest’ in some way…. as it happened, it turned out to be a really useful exercise, as I found a few other ‘samples’ I’d made – ideas of shape and form from painted canvas, which after all is sturdy cotton fabric to begin with, made sturdier by the fact it is ready painted with oil or acrylic paint or both. This makes it really good at holding the shapes made by the cutting and sewing – they become sculptural as a result. I found three, and made another three to accompany them.

So these pieces are all hangable on a wall, as you would a painting, but also can be placed flat on a plinth or in a cabinet….