The artist in which I have decided to be my main focus is Yulia Makeyeva as I find her work very unique to other artists. Yulia Makeyeva is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and founder of Connect With Art. She grew up in Russia and is now based in Jersey. She is very passionate about engaging the community in art, which relates to our project of nfts and how everyday more people are understanding about what they are globally in the community.

I feel that this photograph has several different aspects as her work is an exploration of human memory and the memory of materials. This therefor makes her photograph unique to others as the materials in which she used has sentimental value. Additionally this photo may catch peoples eyes as you can cleary see the main focus which is the embroidery in the centre. However people may find the background distracting for the embroiders although i feel the use of a projector adds to the photograph as a whole.

Other examples of Yulia Makeyeva work:

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Inge Jacobsen

Inge Jacobsen is a highly accomplished Danish/Irish artist. Not only has she exhibited around the world and won countless awards, in 2012 she exhibited alongside legendary YBA Sarah Lucas at the Selling Sex show by SHOWstudio. One of her proudest accomplishments. Jacobsen takes mass produced images, like magazines and adverts and gives them a unique makeover. She stitches, embroiders, cuts and collages to transform her subjects, a process that Jacobsen refers to as ‘hijacking’. Inge Jacobsen’s work is influenced by her Grandmother and Grandmother’s sister who was very good at cross-stitching and would create very intricate pieces.

Inge Jacobsen uses found commercial imagery and thread to put her own spin on classic advertising. Embroidery is used to physically alter the pictures and appropriate their meaning; the artist has named this process ‘hijacking’. Recently Inge has enjoyed working on a commission for American Express, who wanted an original perspective on 3 of their classic cards to use in a social media advertising campaign.

 Inge Jacobsen describes her work as an “intervention.” The photorealistic effect she’s able to achieve with full cross-stitched reproductions (see her version of British Vogue‘s March 2011 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley cover above, side-by-side with the original) is really bold and interesting to look at.

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The Occupation Tapestry was the biggest community art project ever undertaken in Jersey, and made by Islanders for Islanders. It was conceived in order to tell the story of what life was like during the five years of German occupation. 

In 1995, the award-winning Occupation Tapestry was woven by Islanders to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the liberation from five years of occupation by the German armed forces during the Second World War. It is 13 panels, created from the memories and stories of Islanders who experienced it first-hand. The tapestry is held in the Maritime Museum.

Jersey spirit runs through the Occupation Tapestry. Each of the original 12 panels were created in a different Jersey parish and the 13th panel toured all 12 parishes, each of which depicted a scene of local life during the German Occupation.

The Occupation Tapestry was unveiled by Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, on 9th May 1995, fifty years after the first English “Tommy” soldiers came ashore to liberate Jersey after the surrender of the German garrison on the same day.

In the museum, each of the tapestry panels has an interactive screen in front of it. By touching the screen, information, including photographs and film, tell you about the tapestry, and also what life was like back then.

Materials used to make this tapestry were 1,418 of 25 gram hanks of Appletons Crewel wool, comprising 275 shades of 52 different colours; 24 metres by 100cm wide, 16 threads to the inch, Single Brown Canvas. Each panel measures 72 inches by 34 inches, there are 626,688 stitches per panel. In all, the twelve panels contain 7,520,256 stitches

Trinity – “Outbreak of War”

St. John – “By-Passed”

St. Martin – “Red Cross”

St. Lawrence – “School and Work”