29 May 2017

Art I like - Caroline Achaintre

Caroline Achaintre works in tufting, ceramics, drawing, fabric sculpture, and other media. Here she is in her studio in 2014, as seen in Tate etc magazine -
In that article she says: "I work with the mask in the widest sense, using ceramics and textiles. My tufted works always depict more than one being. There is the façade of the surface, and then the question of who is behind it. I was interested in the psychological aspect of what you see in these objects: they have anthropomorphic features, but they are not abstract, and not yet figurative; a multilayering of multi-personalities."

Some more of the tufted work (images from her website) - 
Insider, 2007

Om Nom Ore, 2015
 And an installation (2011)  with "Zibra" -
Three ceramic pieces -
Drawings -
Air Hair, 2014 (via)
Recently her work was in the Making & Unmaking exhibition June-Sept last year - large padded flat shapes made of african fabrics, pinned up on the wall. No photography allowed in that exhibition, but I did a quick drawing -
Another "F.Ritz" was in a show in Brussels last year -

A wild and wonderful and bold and audacious use of textiles as an art medium.

1 comment:

Sue Sharples said...

Some really interesting fabric art here! Specially like the last one!
Sue x