Artist References

Examples of Artist who use Embroidery in context of identity:

Jose Romussi

Chilean artist Jose Romussi taks vintage black and white images of ballerinas who were famous at the time and stitches colourful lines into thier frozen posture, adding a new vision to thier clothes creating a whole new look and interpretation to an image.

“My artworks are a reaction of my inspiration”

Romussi starts with an image that gives him an idea of how to make a whole new image using embroidery. He says he is not scared of breaking an image as he veiws that as making his own interpretation of beauty.

As well as creating a new look he adds a new emotion life and interpretation to each piece through embroidery.

He has created art of Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Alla Shelest, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtseva, Diana Gould, Susie Presley, and Diana Adams.

Embroidered Dance:

Embroidery Workshop

The Embroidery + Narrative workshop led by Yulia Makeyeva got us to use different materials such as images and texts from the People Make Jersey exhibition and various fabrics and textiles to make our own composition. We mixed photography with embroidery to make a short stop animation (GIF).

To start I chose to use materials which could be used for clothing or give off a clothing material look like denim. The images and texts from the People Make Jersey exhibitions I chose have interesting aspects to them like patterns and composition/shapes.

I started by using a combination of running stitch and backwards stitch, to stitch the small textiles together to give a patchwork effect as I liked the colours and the bleach/dye effect these had individually and together they contrast each other making each one stand out.

I used extra pieces that I pulled of from the denim-like fabric and stitched them onto the people cut out to make an outline of their clothes. I added the cut out background to sit behind them but in a different position so it leaves a gap behind them to show they are ’empty’. This aspect links to the text ‘Aliens registration card’ because it shows something about their identity being ‘alien’ through the idea of odd and missing.

GIF

I used adobe photoshop to create a GIF by downloading all the photos into photoshop and pressing create frame animation.

My photos I used for my GIF are not shot correctly and have different angles and do not really show the process clearly of how I made the final product. However they do show the difference from start to finish.