Stephanie Redfern
Textile artist
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NEWS
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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.
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I've started to add the courses I'm teaching in 2012 that are open for general booking. Please see COURSES section.
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To order Into the Cacao Grove and The Stone Bird, limited edition facsimiles of my artist's books, 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 is £14.95 + £2.50 p&p UK and Europe
Postage to USA, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the world, £7.00.
Both books are A4 sized, slim and full of colourful images. As they are also limited edition, just a few copies remain of each book.
I was thrilled that The Stone Bird won first prize in the Quilt Creations category at the Festival of Quilts 2011.See more of them 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 21 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, 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 and unframed work, and artist's books.
My work 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 many 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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