Rachel Anderson East Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Rachel Anderson is a textile artist and designer working from East Yorkshire. Primarily specialising in freemotion machine embroidery, Rachel also works with fabric design, mark making and other textile techniques. Her textile works often combine structure and fluidity, designing fabrics based on hand marbled prints which juxtapose the rigidity of the drawn elements that sit on the surface.
I'm a visual artists and creative facilitator. My practice is heavily informed by wanting to shine a light on textiles as an art form rather than a craft, which I do through my own work and via teaching others.
Themes in my work are usually influenced by architecture and feeling of place, and recently I have been drawn into botanical studies, and now often combine this with the architectural pieces where I feel the pairing reflects the unseen and misunderstood in culture as well as nature. I am interested in exploring the overlooked, much like textiles as art, I like to explore imagery that we see often but rarely appreciate fully.
Artwork
Staircase, Freemotion embroidery on cotton, 2023
The Garden , Freemotion embroidery on digitally printed cotton, 2023
Spirit of Listeners, Freemotion and hand embroidery on cotton, 2021
Larkin Out, Freemotion embroidery on digitally printed cotton, 2021, £225.00
Projects and exhibitions
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Wellness Workshops - East Riding Libraries16/01/2024 — 20/03/2024 A series of textile related workshops provided to the local community for free in their local libraries. Delivered by me, sessions included dyeing, block printing, macrame, paper marbling and weaving. |
East Riding of Yorkshire | Details |
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Under Locke & Ceres08/09/2023 — 23/09/2023 An exhibition by eight local artists in Hulls only National Trust property, open for two weekends over the Heritage Open Days. |
Maister House, Hull | Details |
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Grim FalFest - Creative Workshop02/09/2023 Working with local arts organisation Our Big Picture, I delivered a day of drop in block printing at the local marketplace, with work themed around the Viking Festival. Each participant designed and made their own printing block and contributed to a community banner. |
Freeman St Market, Grimsby | Details |
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York Fashion Week08/05/2022 A collaboration with fashion designer Zac Girdlestone, creating a tailored shirt with embroidered sheer panels, inspired by medieval medicine women and the plants they cultivated as medicines. |
Malmaison, York | Details |
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Stitchery10/09/2021 — 19/09/2021 A group exhibition of fashion and textile artists. |
Fruit Market, Hull | Details |