Stephanie Redfern
Textile and Mixed Media Artist
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What's new...
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Read my blog by clicking here
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"Into the Cacao Grove"
is now available as a printed book,images and
information are in the
3D and MIXED MEDIA gallery on this website.
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The new card catalogue is now online, please see CARDS section.
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My piece "Summer; hill, pool, river"
has been awarded second prize in the
Tabernacle Art Competition at MOMA Wales.
July 19th - September 4th 2010.
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SUMMER; HILL, POOL, RIVER.
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"Place, Object, Narrative."
my solo exhibition.
RBSA Gallery
Birmingham
August 2nd - 28th 2010.
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The work in the show is all in some way autobiographical, being a collection of personal places, objects and references.
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Below is "Hazelnut Baroque", one of my new
pieces that will be in the exhibition; details of it are in
GALLERY TWO.
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"14 Books", my new mixed media hanging will
also be in the exhibition and is in the
3D and MIXED MEDIA gallery on this website.
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Hazelnut Baroque
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I have a stand at the Festival of Quilts
National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham
August 19th - 22nd 2010.
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I also have a stand at the
Autumn Fair
NEC Birmingham
September 5th - 8th 2010.
Trade only.
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I usually have embroideries for sale. Prices for unframed work start at £75.00. I will have a selection of work for sale at the Festival of Quilts too. Please e mail if you are interested in buying my work.
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Art Education
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Foundation year at Bournville Art College, Birmingham
BA [Ceramics] Wolverhampton University
Member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
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For 20 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 texture.
For the textile pieces I paint, print and dye most of my fabrics. I keep sketchbooks, as drawing is an important element in my work, and in addition the pieces evolve from and are dictated by their source materials.
I love 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, gardens, birds, 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 framed work, art quilts,artist's books, cards and prints.
My work has been extensively purchased and resides in many parts of the world.
I teach ceramics at Birmingham City University and my own textile workshops to groups of adults and children. Please see my WORKSHOPS section on the menu bar.
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GALLERY ONE
Art quilts.
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GALLERY TWO
Framed embroideries.
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GALLERY THREE
Paintings, illustration and prints.
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THREE DIMENSIONAL AND MIXED MEDIA TEXTILES
Showing examples of my artist's book
"Into the Cacao Grove",
and "14 Books", my new mixed media wall piece.
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Contact
All images are copyright Stephanie Redfern 2010.