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Deirdre Nelson
Penny Jones talks to Deirdre Nelson about her textile-based work, often made in response to museum collections or site histories and informed by local communities, and residencies in the Scottish Highlands and Australia.
Deirdre Nelson has spent the last few years making textile-based works in response to museum collections or to the history of other sites. Her work is often informed by interaction with people from local communities. Her art practice “has evolved through experimenting with materials and methods of making in which hand work and craftsmanship provide both direction and context. Hand skills are used in the work in a humorous commentary on social and textile history.”
Her textile work employs a variety of techniques and materials “fusing traditional textile skills and contemporary reinterpretation through photography and digital manipulation”. The history of textile production and its interweaving with the social fabric of the place of production has become her subject.
She is one of seven makers selected to exhibit in the Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition at the Jerwood Space, London in June and July 2008.
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