Oil & Fire

Date completed – 2024

Medium – Hand stitched textile on wooden cylinder (from recycled wood)

’The Stitch that Bit Back’ Exhibition – Fringe Arts Festival Bath – 23rd May – 6th June 26

This 3D embroidered sculpture illustrates the consequences of burning fossil on vital systems such as Earth’s forests.

For ‘Oil and Fire’ I have used picot and spiral trellis stitches with some couching and backstitch.