The textile artist that I chose to study for this topic is Yulia Makeyeva. Our class was lucky enough to have a textile learnng workshop with her , which allowed us to learn more about her and her unique work that she produced through many different ways of stitching.

She is an emerging multidisciplinary artist. She grew up in Russia and is now based in Jersey, Channel Islands. With a Linguistics degree, an education in Art History, silversmithing and jewellery making background, she turned her full attention to art in 2019. Yulia has always used photography as a means of observing textures, patterns and shapes from everyday objects, constructing unique, sometimes unexpected images.

some images of her work;

She uses different types of stiches in her work such as a running stich, back stich and a few others that we actually got to do when working with her in her workshop.

Yulia is also the founder of Connect with art an online network that provides a platform for artists and art lovers to connect, interact, meet and discover. It also includes an Exhibition space in St Helier where the work produced by students will be exhibited as part of 2 Lives NFT Art Project.

Her work will be helpful when it comes to producing our work as if we chose to stich in our images we will know how to do it confidently due to her work shop.

my experience working with her and my experiment;

this is what I produced when Julia showed me how to stitch. I used the first method as it was the quickest way of stitching, knowing how to do this is beneficial for when we want to stitch onto our work.