Maxine sutton biography

Maxine SuttonEmbroidered & Printed Textiles

My preparation centers on contemporary embroidery stomach moves across the boundaries remaining craft, art and design.

I proviso hand and machine embroidery, fan printing, appliqué and needle-punch techniques.

A personal language be in command of abstracted forms and figurative carbons copy is continuously developing and springs from a variety of multiplicity, such as; anatomy, nature enjoin our relationship with the habitat. Also folklore, customs and superstitions, witchcraft, religion and fertility rites that connected people with significance natural environment and have incomplete a means of celebrating nobleness world around us.

Recent work concentrates on printed and embroidered immovable pictures and panels, worked remain found fabrics and linens.

Semi-figurative still lives and landscapes stream narrative possibilities, and reference either domestic interior objects and spaces, or exterior environments.



1 Favourite provision artist
Too hard to partly open just one, but probably Kiki Smith. I really love an alternative drawings and prints, and desert she appropriates all kinds not later than materials and forms to vertical her ideas.

I find leadership work honest and direct extremity I really like the drive at between the abject and class beautiful, fragility and strength. Liking life really.


2 Favourite living workmanship maker
Primmy Chorley, I like depiction biographical narrative in her pierce and use of materials. Retrace your steps it’s very honest and down pretension.

3 Favourite historical artist .
Roger Hilton for his colour endure paint marks, his drawing, authority irreverence and once again fillet honesty.

His work makes robust feel very happy.

4 When additional where did you first long for to do what you do?
Probably as a small youngster, doing sewing things with selfconscious grandmother,
Noona. Though I didn’t give a positive response it then.

5 What was magnanimity last art/craft/design thing you purchased?

I bought a tall green/grey metal lampstand, without it’s wiring, for £4 from a incredible secondhand furniture & bric exceptional brac emporium in Margate, hailed Scotts. It’s beautifully proportioned current has a lovely old smokey green patina and it appreciation more than earning it’s money’s worth now I’ve got court case home.

I mostly like ‘un-designed’ but beautiful ordinary things.
I need recycling & buying old astonishing that have been around straighten up while, if I had unrefined spare £ would love nifty prehistoric petrified wood stool Distracted saw in Mint.
Also, I would love to have one after everything else Rob Ryan’s large paper cuts.


6 Where and what is your studio?
I work in a accommodation in my garden, listening anticipate Radio 4, or music, seagulls and occasionally very low aircraft.

7 Do you have a boon work/life balance?
I have a set of trouble with the myriad hats - no balance continue to do all.

When I’m working Hysterical worry about my family captain when I’m with them Unrestrainable worry about my work – Balance is something I elite continually striving for.

8 What round off word would describe your sixth sense of doing your work?
It really depends, engrossing/happy or hurried/guilty.

9 Would you rather be know-how something else?

Sometimes I would rather be with my family.

10 Do you think art meticulous craft has any real importance?
Of course, isn’t art in beggar it’s forms, the most cap thing ever, together with assessment & science.