Laura Cadman — E: laurastitch@ymail.com W: www.laurastitch.wix.com/stitches
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Laura Cadman My current work is inspired by two themes, still life and cloth memory. Using still life arrangements, I create mark-making drawings on a large scale. I work with a variety of materials during the drawing process to enable me to have a large breadth of marks to translate into stitch. I like to experiment with the hand stitches I use in order to create the different marks made in my drawings. When preparing my fabric my second theme takes hold. I am fascinated and inspired by the memories that cloth can
hold; particularly the wear and tear of the clothing of those unfortunate people who had no choice but to labour away in the harsh Victorian workhouse. An example of my development of this theme was my manipulation of my surfaces by staining them with dye, and wearing down the fibres by using sandpaper. It is also this labour intensive theme that inspires me to create my work purely by hand. In an effort to replicate the atmosphere and struggle of the workhouse I adopt these repetitive, tedious and time consuming ways of working.
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Project Title: Memories in Stitch