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Subversive textiles

By: Susan Jones

Naori Priestly who graduated from the Royal College of Art last year with a MA Constructed Textiles is one of 300 makers selected to show in Origin 2008.

She sees this significant annual event in the craft and design calendar as a perfect place to start off her career. “I am hoping to meet people who are enthusiastic about crafts and my work, to meet galleries and to get some commission and exhibition offers.” Born in Japan in 1966, she studied sculpture in Tokyo and New York before settling in England over a decade ago. Her work is illustrative and strongly autobiographical, employing humour to convey the darker, more sinister side of everyday life. Working with textiles, she uses domestic craft skills, such as hand-knitting, crochet, embroidery, appliqué and hand-felt, along with digital technology including computerised embroidery. Her work has a narrative element, inspired by folk tales and nursery rhymes, where reality, daydreams and nightmares merge into one surreal world. The appearance of charm and naivety belies the subversive concepts that influence her pieces. Her aspiration is to show work through galleries and develop a profile through commissions. “I would like to be developing my work using computerised embroidery, once I can get the funding for equipment, and I am making commissioned...

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