Sinead Barker Textile Art North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Sinead Barker is a self-taught, neurodivergent textile artist whose work is rooted in her lifelong affinity and deep bond with animals. She creates animal portraits using collaged fabrics, hand-dyed canvases and free-motion machine stitching to blend patterns and add fine details to bring each animal to life.
Sinead Barker (b.1989) is a self-taught, neurodivergent textile artist whose work is rooted in her lifelong affinity and deep bond with animals. She creates animal portraits using collaged fabrics, hand-dyed canvases and free-motion machine stitching to blend patterns and fine details to bring each animal to life. Her practice enables her to process personal emotional experiences through connection to the characteristics of different animals that she relates to. Emerging as a way to cope with the isolation and limits of chronic pain, fatigue, trauma & dysautonomia, her work brings calm to her nervous system and a sense of grounding through her creative expression.
