Stephanie Redfern
Textile artist
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I still make cards but don't have a specific section for them. For those people who are enquiring about them please e mail me and I will help with your enquiry; many thanks.
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NEWS
DEBUT, Quatrefoil's major show at the RBSA Galleries in Birmingham opens on Tuesday 8th May.See EXHIBITIONS for more information.
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There are new works in GALLERIES ONE and TWO, and in GALLERY FOUR are some images from my latest artist's book, Mist and Grey.
Some new works are for sale, in GALLERY TWO, prices start at £70.00; e mail me if you have an enquiry, I'll be happy to hear from you. I've put SOLD by the works no longer available.
I've added some images to GALLERY FOUR, my 3D and mixed media gallery, of my recycling project Thrift and Alchemy. These are of White Noise and Gold, and will both be at the Festival of Quilts on my stand this year, along with my latest book, Mist and Grey.
Booking for my course Exploring Textile Surfaces at the RBSA Gallery in Birmingham is now open.It is a 3 day course, running on August 3rd, 4th and 6th 2012.
There's also news of a new course at Ineke Berlyn's barn, starting in October 2012, called A Textile Artist's Book, which will be a day a week from October 2012 until April 2013, on which students will learn to make their own artist's book, using a variety of textile and printing techniques.
Please see the COURSES section if you are interested.Other courses I am teaching this year are also listed there.
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To order The Stone Bird,a limited edition facsimile of my artist's book, please send an e mail to me, and I will either raise a Paypal invoice for you or send you my address if you want to pay by cheque.
THE STONE BIRD is £18.95 + £2.50 p&p UK and Europe
INTO THE CACAO GROVE SOLD OUT
Postage to USA, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the world, £7.00.
I was thrilled that The Stone Bird won first prize in the Quilt Creations category at the Festival of Quilts 2011.See more images in GALLERY FOUR.
Into the Cacao Grove won second prize in the same category in 2009.
I am now working on a series of artist's books based upon the seasons. Watch my blog for their progress, plus the work I am making for 'Orientation', our touring group show, which debuts at Forge Mill Needle Museum in September 2012.
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From The Stone Bird
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For over twenty years I made my living from making ceramics, but alongside this practice have also produced works on paper and textile pieces.
I now concentrate entirely upon these media. Working in this way enables me to enjoy the immediate sensation of colour, design, line and shape.
I paint and print most of my fabrics using acrylic paints and inks. I keep sketchbooks and make design sheets, as design practice is the basis of my work. In addition the pieces evolve from and are dictated by their source materials.
I enjoy investigating pattern and organising space. For my textiles, I collect together materials and found objects, organise and layer the design, then stitch the elements together to produce the finished work.
My methods are usually but not always controllable. Many of the best things that happen are unplanned, but strangely still represent that inexplicable end result that is a combination of personality, experience, life and the patterns and spaces that move me.
My influences are on one hand what surrounds me,in the suburban and city landscape. Beyond that I am influenced by many aspects of the natural world, architecture, comics, abstract and botanical art, indeed art in general from painting and printmaking to ancient and contemporary artefacts.I make illustrative pieces, pattern based work, and work which moves towards abstraction.
My work consists mainly of framed and unframed work, and artist's books.
It has been extensively exhibited and purchased and resides in many parts of the world.
I have taught children,adults,and special needs groups for 28 years.
I teach textile workshops and ceramics,and have been artist in residence at many schools. I have taught Arts Council funded placements at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists on several occasions, and was artist in residence at the Cancer Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, leading a large project to produce patients' work for the hospital environment.
I have also curated and organised exhibitions, both in ceramics and textiles.
Art Education
Foundation year at Bournville Art College, Birmingham
BA Hons [Ceramics] Wolverhampton University
Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
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GALLERY ONE
Unframed and large stitched textiles
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GALLERY TWO
Framed embroideries and smaller stitched textiles
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GALLERY THREE
Paintings, illustration and prints
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GALLERY FOUR
Three dimensional textiles and mixed media work
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All images are copyright Stephanie Redfern 2012
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