Textile Art 2019

Textile Art: Kate Steane 2019

This year I made forty two pieces of textile art and there are seven that have particular significance for me.

My favourite piece of the year is a cushion inspired by a postcard, sent to me by my Dad from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

The museum houses an ethnographic collection of hand crafted items from all over the world; the card shows a ‘malangan’ from Papua New Guinea (used in mortuary ceremonies) depicting a wooden fish flying over waves. I love the browns with the curved fish and the swirling wave; fantastic design.

I am very fond of the sea shore and this year made a collage and a reverse appliqué. I encouraged others during a stitch club and was very impressed with their work.

Displayed in a drawer is my textile geological core and ammonites, made for an exhibition on geology and fossils, held at the National Stone Centre, near Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

I was inspired to make a leather and soft metal copy of the Sutton Hoo raven; I love the curling beak and claw and the glint of red glass beads (garnets).

My imagination went wild with these bungee jumping girls gripped by flowers. They decorate a bag I made for my sister Anna’s move into her new house in 2020.