A hanging paper tapestry, a rust-coloured plinth featuring six small-scale craft objects in bronze, enamel and wood.

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Lesley Illingworth

Lesley Illingworth Is a fine art textile artist, graduating from the Royal School of Needlework in 2015. She is an disability activist and a blogger for Disability Arts Online. Her Story Telling coat was in Tate Modern in 2016 in a guerilla exhibition and in Hastings Museum and Art gallery in the Hidden out of Sight exhibition in 2023. Her installation exhibition Artists and Disability Oppression : Up Close and Intensive was in the House of Commons in 2024.

Fine Art Textile Artist

, England

Lesley Illingworth Is a fine art textile artist, graduating from the Royal School of Needlework in 2015. She is an disability activist and a blogger for Disability Arts Online. Her Story Telling coat was in Tate Modern in 2016 in a guerilla exhibition and in Hastings Museum and Art gallery in the Hidden out of Sight exhibition in 2023. Her installation exhibition Artists and Disability Oppression : Up Close and Intensive was in the House of Commons in 2024.

Focus:
Embroidery, multi media, activism
CV:
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For the sustainable development of my practice, I consider environmental factors, focusing on protecting natural resources and ecosystems. My work protects natural resource’s by recycling fabrics and teaching craft skills of mending and sewing to repair items . I use waste products such as milk, soya, wood, bamboo and banana fibres and follow developments in recycling of products into fibre and substrate uses. I create substrates from recycled materials especially patchwork of any substrate.

Lesley Illingworth Is a fine art textile artist, graduating from the Royal School of Needlework in 2015. She is an disability activist and a blogger for Disability Arts Online. Her Story Telling coat was in Tate Modern in 2016 in a guerilla exhibition and in Hastings Museum and Art gallery in the Hidden out of Sight exhibition in 2023. Her installation exhibition Artists and Disability Oppression : Up Close and Intensive was in the House of Commons in 2024.

Focus:
Embroidery, multi media, activism
CV:
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For the sustainable development of my practice, I consider environmental factors, focusing on protecting natural resources and ecosystems. My work protects natural resource’s by recycling fabrics and teaching craft skills of mending and sewing to repair items . I use waste products such as milk, soya, wood, bamboo and banana fibres and follow developments in recycling of products into fibre and substrate uses. I create substrates from recycled materials especially patchwork of any substrate.