lucinda button West Sussex, United Kingdom

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Graduate of GSA I have worked as a Textiles and interior designer, broadcast journalist for BBC WS and VOA before becoming a mother and Art teacher. Never stopping my creativity, always collecting, my environmental roots run deep. Using collections of detritus allowed me to the utilize knowledge, skills and passion I have for our planet. I try to visually stimulate whilst encouraging discussions

Recycled, repurposed, hand dyed, I like to manipulate fabrics in combination with man-made and natural objects, I hand and machine embroider work to add mark making, the pieces sometimes escape the frame though I often work within a square, encouraging a viewer to focus on the colours and textures regardless of orientation. I hope to visually stimulate whilst, encouraging debate on different aspects of our environment and our role within in it. Paper works and photography are an integral part of my process, the marks, colours, compositions of these directly influence the textile pieces that follow. My new series: Landworks continues the conversation about our fragile planet, the dried plants or wood are stitched into the work but look as if they might fall at any time, this deliberate, to challenge the viewers perception encourage a conversation about sustainability, our place within the planet. I have just won an Artist project, (6 month contract) with High Weald National Landscape Partnership using Art to encourage a specific community to engage with an area of ancient woodland. Following my first series New Horizons which has been exhibited in various cities and towns, including being a part of the United Nations Decade of Oceans Science for Sustainable Development ‘Under the Sea’ exhibition I now working on a ‘Second Sea’ series that will be informed and work in partnership with Sussex Bay supporting Blue Nature Recovery Projects; this work will be made and exhibited in The Space in-Between gallery. I want to make work that has a point, creates conversation and debate, specifically about the health of our oceans.