by admin | Nov 28, 2023
aBC hankies Turning real life topics into an embroidered ABC, using the therapeutic healing nature of comedy as a coping mechanism. The 26 handkerchiefs, a token of affection and representing truth, are the basis for the love heart shaped alphabet patchworks, in an...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
page 3 girls When moving to London back in 1999, I was mortified by the British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female model on the third page of mainstream red top tabloids. The 21 embroidered page 3 girls explore the topics of...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
black wall street ‘Black Wall Street’ is an installation based on current media reports of police brutality in the US and the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots of Whites against Blacks, one of the most devastating massacres in the history of US race relations. ...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
custome drama Large embroidered portraits of young male and female subjects, combining patterning and decorating patch works, sewing together newspaper reports of refugees and police brutality with fabrics from clothes she wore as a child. Inspired by Japanese war...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
Patchwork Politics Tisna is creating an ongoing series of patchworks, sewing together newspaper reports of the London riots with fabrics from clothes she wore as a child. Using this ancient craft technique, traditionally handed from mother to daughter, Tisna opens up...
