Embroidery and Narrative

Artists who use embroidery

Debbie Smyth

Textile artist Debbie Smyth is best known for her stitched illustrations. By plotting pins with acute accuracy and then stretching thread between them, she creates work that is beautiful and somewhat disconcerting; the boundaries of textile art, fine art sketches, embroidery, and illustration are well and truly blurred.

My Embroidery

For this experiment we had to use materials that related to Jersey and the history and community of Jersey. I decided to use this image as it is a well known building and business that is still there. I decided to keep it simple and just stitch on words that I cut out from the text that was originally below the image. I chose to only use the identifying words in the text, such as the business name and the year the image was taken so that it didn’t take away from the actual photo.