Kay Leech
TORN BY TIME
Anne Tuck Award Winner 2020
Anne Tuck Award Winner 2020
Inspiration
Exploring the work of American quilt artist Jude Hill I felt that her torn material technique embodied the idea of fragmentation. I live in Cumbria and the design reflects the colours of the landscape with couched threads denoting both hills and the layers of rock from which it is constructed. The rocks are fragmented by time and the process of weathering and the free-machined words highlight these processes. Coronavirus meant that life itself felt to have been fragmented hence the addition of the words in darker stitch 'Landscape fragmented torn by time'
Materials and techniques
Torn by Time is constructed with torn strips of a variety of hand-dyed fabrics including muslin, old cotton sheet, calico, and viscose, woven together in sections and basted to a very thin backing material. Five mini woven areas were inserted. The sections were then interwoven and basted to form the background and words were free-machined over this. I decided that I would use wadding to give the piece structure. The layers were quilted together using a combination of hand and machine quilting. Llama and other threads were couched on the surface and French knots added.
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Exploring the work of American quilt artist Jude Hill I felt that her torn material technique embodied the idea of fragmentation. I live in Cumbria and the design reflects the colours of the landscape with couched threads denoting both hills and the layers of rock from which it is constructed. The rocks are fragmented by time and the process of weathering and the free-machined words highlight these processes. Coronavirus meant that life itself felt to have been fragmented hence the addition of the words in darker stitch 'Landscape fragmented torn by time'
Materials and techniques
Torn by Time is constructed with torn strips of a variety of hand-dyed fabrics including muslin, old cotton sheet, calico, and viscose, woven together in sections and basted to a very thin backing material. Five mini woven areas were inserted. The sections were then interwoven and basted to form the background and words were free-machined over this. I decided that I would use wadding to give the piece structure. The layers were quilted together using a combination of hand and machine quilting. Llama and other threads were couched on the surface and French knots added.
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