Daily Archives: June 13, 2016

Here are a few of Matthew Harris‘ work on cloth. On Contemporary Applied Arts he writes this about his work:

“I have never been interested in ‘perfect’ textiles. It’s the interruption of the patterned surface which excites me. Cloth made imperfect as a result of patches, tears, darns and frayed edges held together with purely necessary stitches; these are the qualities which motivate me to make work.”

“The work is constructed from basic cotton twill dust sheet which I mark simply by dribbling dye across the surface. In order to create the effect I want, I fold, pleat and cut the cloth. Additional pieces of cloth are then trapped between the cuts and layers and held in place by hand stitching.”

Images: Courtesy of Matthew Harris.

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UK-based textile artist, Matthew Harris, is widely recognized for his textile designs. However, we are featuring his work on paper on this post. His labor intensive fabric collages are dyed, cut and hand stitched but the process of drawing is essential to the finished pieces. He has developed a way to translate these markings and cartoons into cloth. Similar to his fabrics he cuts, patches, pleats and stitches paper to develop his abstract images. He tries whenever possible to exhibith both drawing and cloth together. We are posting some of his cloth work  above.

Images: Courtesy of Matthew Harris.