#sexypink/embroidery

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Sexypink - Adele Todd - POPO - A look at innocence against the harsh realities of safety - shown at Wa Na Wari Gallery Seattle Washington from July 27 to October 30 2023.

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Sexypink - Barbadian Artist | Annalee Davis on her Pray to Flowers – A Plot of Disalienation, my site-specific installation produced by the Sharjah Art Foundation for the SB15.“Pray to Flowers – A Plot of Disalienation, my site-specific installation produced by the Sharjah Art Foundation for the SB15 runs till June 11. 

Barbadian Artist Annalee Davis working on one of her pieces in the exhibition

This post focuses on the attached interior space mirroring the densely layered garden.These embroidered panels acknowledge British sewing traditions Barbadian women inherited over centuries. Practiced across races & classes, their habitual utilization of the needle & thread instilled notions of what it meant to be feminine. Pre-approved imagery, stitches, & colours replicated across samplers trained middle- and upper-class women into becoming submissive housewives abiding by the church’s teachings & moral codes of respectability. Conversely, Pray to Flowers disregards the restricted range of carefully taught stitches, colour combinations, & sanctioned subject matter. 

Rather, these works interweave crochet, applique, & embroidery addressing more indelicate discourse such as the impact of mono-crop farming & the plantation on today’s climate crisis. Amalgamating time-honoured stitches with fabricated ones, 100-year-old cutwork embroidery intermingles with contemporary so-called ‘African’ print fabrics worn at Barbados’ Crop Over festival. Merging pale pink crochet pieces & machine-made lace, this mash-up of fabrics, threads, & traditions acknowledges the creolization inherent in the formation of post-independent Barbados. 

Instead of producing decorative works for the living room or dressing tables, – prescribed domains of women – these tapestries link the plantation with the 6th extinction. Cyanotypes of local botanicals growing in my garden acknowledge native flora rather than bluebells and cockleshells found in the embroidered tablecloths of my mother’s generation, fashioned on prescribed patterns they were fabricated. Satin-stitched phrases” advocate the worship of flowers, and our need to unlearn the plantation & defend nature.”- Annalee Davis

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Sexypink - Barbadian Artist Annalee Davis - Sharjah Art Foundation 

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Sexypink - Sabine Kaner’s eclectic stitching in the age of Windrush.

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Sexypink - Mr Nattoo takes his work into the realm of textiles and embroidery. Let us enjoy the details.

Sexypink - Richard Nattoo - The Magician and the Red Moon - textile

Sexypink - read an interview on his practice here-: https://www.exhibitioncrave.com/writings/interview-with-visual-artist-richard-nattoo

Sexypink - Jamaican Artist Richard Nattoo

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~Sexypink~ Bahamian Artist Giovanna Swaby justifies why embroidery is so hot!

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Trini's Art Featured on Time Magazine Cover - Nneka Jones

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~Sexypink~ Absolutely fantastic work!

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Panty Man - Adele Todd 

Quilted blanket and dimensional embroidery thread . 81 x 65” 2021

As a Performance Artist who works with Embroidery and Soft Materials among other Media, the possibilities for DUALITY seemed endless. However, eventually I was moved to consider "Male Toxicity" as my theme.The word Panty Man that is done tongue-in-cheek in neon pink is the Title that sets the viewer on their path of discovery.The slang term is used to describe a man who is coddled and feminine in nature and a slur to homosexual men in particular.The work is a large dark blue quilt with embroidery threads that on closer observation create individual words that must be looked at at close range and also, can only be seen one at a time as they do not have a chronology. The viewer must move their own bodies to 'read' the piece.The quilt is a symbol of nurturing, safety and warmth. The loose threads that thus fall from the quilt symbolises the unravelling of that safety. We generally expect men to be 'men' and are unaware of how much our stereotyping of the male sex confuses boys as they grow to manhood. I hope that my piece shall inspire those who interact with it, the opportunity, to consider when they themselves have perhaps used terminology seen on the quilt or words to that nature to define a man's character. We are all guilty of a level of sexual politics for its own gain and must now consider that sensitivity is not a one way street.-Adele Todd

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Adele Todd

A curated body of work by Adele Todd looking at 1970. 1990. 2020 

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~Sexypink~ Adele Todd is in The Portrait Show.

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Guyanese Artist Suchitra Mattai

Suchitra Mattai

Semiotics , 2020mixed media on wood16 x 16 in

Suchitra Mattai

Exodus, 2019Vintage saris from India, Sharjah, artist’s Indo - Guyanese family and rope net15 x 40 ft

Suchitra Mattai

ParadiseVintage French embroideredtrim,

pen on vinyl on wood panel16 x 16 in

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~Sexypink~ My work has explored the issue of Police  Brutality for a very long time.  This has included honoring the Police for what they do in society. I am presently halfway through working on embroidery on canvas where I observe the system of that brutality as it relates to children. I shall continue  embroidering these pieces as long as the systems continue. At momentous times such as these, Art that depicts or records this reality, matters more than ever.

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~Sexypink~ Nneka Jones faces The Time.

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~Sexypink~  Jade Drakes . Scar Cushions. Part of the exhibition- RAW featuring: Abigail Hadeed Ashraph Bunty O’Connor Che Lovelace Dean Arlen Edward Bowen Horacio Hospedales Jade Drakes Janice Derrick Roberta Stoddart Shalini Sonya Sanchez Arias Susan Dayal