MAXINE SUTTON
Maxine Sutton describes her work as a meeting point, between early creative experiences with textiles in her childhood, as well as her formal art education. After a first degree in Fine Art Painting at Ravensbourne College of Art (1985), Maxine later reconnected with her affinity for cloth, and studied for an MA in Constructed Textiles at the Royal College of Art (2005).
Recent work can be characterized by the combination of screen printing with embroidery, appliqué and other needlework processes. Sutton works with found, recycled and organic fabrics, and also makes works on paper, often experimenting with taking imprints of ink saturated forms from the cloth during the screen printing process. Her work explores the uncertainty, disarray, and fragmentation of our existence, together with a compulsion to reconstitute and reclaim.
She lives and works in Margate, on the South East coast of England.
