Fine Cell Work

Fine Cell Work is an organization devoted to teaching needlework to UK prison inmates as well as to sell their products. Twenty-six prisons are involved with male inmates comprising 80% of the project participants. Each devotes approximately 20 hours a week to the project doing the emboridery in their cells.

Abstract Painting Design - Fine Cell Work

Detail - Abstract Painting Design - Fine Cell Work

Fine Cell Work website
http://www.finecellwork.co.uk/home/

Video - 16 minutes
http://www.finecellwork.co.uk/audiovideo/

Incredible Portraiture

"Fine Art" painters and sculptors have nothing on these artists...

CAYCE ZAVAGLIA - Incredible portraiture in embroidery - Cayce focuses on creating portraits of family, friends, and fellow artists. The detail and coloration she achieves are amazing.

by Cayce Zavaglia

http://lyonswiergallery.com/artists/cayce-zavaglia/
http://moderncraft.blogspot.com/2008/07/cayce-zavaglia.html


LISA KOKIN - Lisa creates incredible portraits by stitching together recycled buttons

by Lisa Kokin

http://www.lisakokin.com/buttonwork/ (click button icons on left to view more images)
http://www.myartspace.com/interviews/interviews/art-space-talk-lisa-kokin.html  


JO HAMILTON - Jo creates crocheted portraits based on photographs

http://johamiltonart.com/htm/crochet.htm
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/07/jo_hamiltons_crochet_portraits.html


ILARIA MARGUTTI - Ilaria makes machine and hand embroidered portraits of women who are in process of literally either mending or creating themselves.

by Ilaria Margutti

http://www.ilariamargutti.com/cataloghi/ilaria_margutti_mend_of_me.pdf (text in Italian but many pictures)
http://www.ilariamargutti.com/progetti_mend.php

The Contemporary Embroidery of Erin Endicott

                               Erin Endicott - Detail of Healing Sutra #10

Erin's work is powerful, beautiful and very moving. It is embroidered onto antique fabrics stained with walnut ink. She states that she uses "...contemporary embroidery on antique fabric as a canvas to explore the common threads that bind countless generations of women. Wounds - both physical and psychological - are given life using delicate, meditative stitches. Traditionally thought of as "woman's work", sewing is a time consuming and contemplative process, each thoughtfully considered stitch becoming integral to the whole."
http://www.erinendicottart.com/gallery.html

The Cutting and Stitching Edge - Erin Endicott
http://www.mrxstitch.com/2010/05/20/cutting-stitching-edge-erin-endicott/