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Little Ginkgo studies: Embroidered artwork by Meredith Woolnough

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Meredith Woolnough is a visual artist and teacher based in Newcastle, Australia.

Her sculptural embroideries are an exploration of art, science and nature. The embroideries are created using a unique freehand embroidery technique that utilises a domestic sewing machine and a fabric that dissolves in water.

Meredith has exhibited her work worldwide, is the author of two books ‘Organic Embroidery’ (2018) and ‘The 100 Embroideries Project (2023) and teaches both in person and online classes.

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Australian artist Meredith Woolnough's delicately embroidered sculptures express aspects of nature ♀️

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Amazing embroidery artworks from Newcastle based embroidery artist Meredith Woolnough at http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/ "The New Neighbours", embroidery polyester thread, 135 cm, 2017, © Meredith Woolnough

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Textile artists that have used machine and hand stitching to draw

Meredith Woolnough

What she does

Woolnough is an Australian artists that gains inspiration from the natural world for her ‘embroidered specimens’. Skeletal frameworks are often the back bone of her work such as veins in a leaf or patterns found within the structures of plants .

She has a very unique process of creating her works as she embroiders on water soluble fabric allowing her o be left with only the embroidery and nothing else .First of all she traces out her image and stitches over the lines using a domestic sewing machine and will then place it into some water therefore leaving only her embroidered design and will often mount it on paper , a wall or wherever she wants to place it even some of her pieces are even encased in clear resin or framed which I think creates a nice look to it and adds demension to the otherwise flat piece.

My opinion

I really like the work Woolnough has done as it is very different and rather unique as she used water soluble fabric leaving the embroidery behind allowing her to display it in a variety of ways.Her works are very beautiful and have an equally wonderful theme of nature yet she tends to look at the skeletal forms such as veins in leaves which is very fascinating.After looking at her work I too would like to try doing this method she has perfected and perhaps include it into my denim jacket perhaps hanged off the end of the jacket and not completely attached to it.

Inge Jacobson

What she does

Jacobson uses found commercial imagery to give live to advertisements and make them more visually interesting.The embroidery is used to change the images and alter their meaning.Inge Jacobson names this process as “hijacking”.Even though what she does is a very “ simple “ process I find it really intriguing and something about her pieces deeply interests me and even inspires me.

My opinion

After browsing through her website I've noticed all her collections and the variety of types of works she does are done by stitching  over magazine covers some appear to be done by hand and overs perhaps by machine .I really like her collection of embroidered pieces called “consumed” where she has messily stitched over the eyes and lips of models and I think this creates a very interesting look to the images making it seem more creepy. I also really liked one of her threaded pages where she stitched a new face onto a model as well as sewing on an image of a  large tarantula and making the eye completely white adding to the eery feel of the piece.

However not all her works give off this creepy vibe as when I was looking through I also noticed how she would often embroidery over women faces in a solid colour making them expressionless and also create and outline of the woman nude even though the magazine image would be of a woman clothed, she would also stitch women over magazine articles and fill in their skin in a block colour such as blue or a mixture of colours which I also found rather appealing. After looking at her work I thought about also using some of her techniques and incorporating her style into my jacket perhaps creating an embroidered version of one of my life drawing images and incorporating that into a sample.

Comparison

I like both artists however I feel more inspired by Inge Jacobson simple due to the attitude and style in her work.I feel like her work in much more lively and colourful while Meredith Woolnough is more subtle and often only uses one or two colours . Even though I find Jacobson more interesting I'm still very intrigued by the technique Woonough uses to create her art and perhaps I could do something similar but add more colour and lifelines to the piece such as embroidering a magazine cover and the dissolving away all the fabric leaving just the embroidery which would be very interesting and different.

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Meredith Woolnough’s practice engages with the natural environment utilizing the skeletal frameworks of flora and fauna as the basis of her own embroidered specimens. Threads are densely stitched into free form sculptures that are carefully pinned to paper or set in resin preserving them as delicate handmade artifacts. Her work explores themes of the inter-connected-ness of living things and environmental degradation.

http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/

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Australian visual artist Meredith Woolnough creates elegant embroidered sculptures. These are intricate and complex openwork compositions that are then carefully pinned in shadowboxes, just like preserved specimens.

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Amazing detailed embroidery art from Newcastle based embroidery artist Meredith Woolnough at http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/ "Fateful Florescence", 2018, A series of nine embroidered pieces, each measuring around 18cm in diameter, © Meredith Woolnough Preoder her new book here http://meredithwoolnough.com.au/shop/organic-embroidery-book-preorder

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http://www.meredithwoolnough.com/#/typologies/TYPOLOGIES

Meredith Woolnough 2015

The ‘Typologies’ series is a collection of monochromatic studies that mimic a range of structures found in the natural world. When the studies are displayed together we naturally group them into patterns, forming connections between the structures. The series explores the balance, harmony and interconnectivity of life on earth.

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'Typologies' was a a finalist in the 2015 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award

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