Rachel
Pearcey

For some years now my work has been about stitching and marks  and words.  I stitch protests on to large banners and also on to pretty vintage embroidered household items.  The gentle embroidered domesticity contrasting with the anger and rage of the often unevenly stitched words;  “my fury is expressed ... in the stabbing stitches”.  Roszika Parker - The Subversive Stitch, page 213 (adapted from an anonymous quote). 

I studied cabinet making in Bristol,  fine art in Taunton and Exeter and did an MA in Kingston Upon Thames.  I live in Kingston with a Spanish greyhound, and two Welsh cats, and I recycle:  all the textiles I use are secondhand, vintage, antique or found.