Hannah gave a detailed and informative introduction to her work and textile journey. As you will see from the images below her work is very colourful and full of texture. Hannah is a younger stitcher who is continuing to develop her work vision and skills. She shared her inspiring and creative portfolio and her enthusiasm was infectious. Her work included a dress made from ties she completed for her GCSE, shown below, which she has worn herself. After school and college Hannah went on to do a mixed media degree at De Montfort university. Hannah uses a digital colour palette and employs collage and stencils as well as some machine embroidery, stressing sustainability and up-cycling fabric faux fur and leather scraps sometimes trapped with netting.
Inspired by the life under the sea, including jelly fish and anemones and by bioluminescence, she produces unexpected pieces, making use of appliqué and reverse appliqué and also using water soluble fabric. Objects like bottle tops and brightly coloured beads are made use of as shown below. Hannah also showed us another, later dress made with a base woven from fabric strips and with embroidered detail. Again it has been worn but apparently wasn’t very comfortable it looked lovely however.
Hannah was a finalist in the 2023 Hand and Lock award. Her entry was the poncho shown below made of repeated panels. When interning with Hand and Lock she also worked on a jacket for Elton John.
Hannah can be found on instagram hg_textile_arts and at HMGLOSSOP@GMail.com.
We also held our usual raffle this evening the colour was blue/turquoise. The large bag was made by Claire the smaller bag by Cas both very effective as you can see.
Our next meeting on 14th July is our summer party and competition the raffle colour is pink. There will be treats on hand from the committee. In the meantime we are looking forward to our exhibition.
Birmingham Embroidery and Textile Art 